Cloud Engineer

Spektrum have a wide range of exciting opportunities in several global locations.

We are always looking to add great new talent to our team and look forward to hearing from you.

Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO, UN, EU, and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services, specialised aerospace and defence sales, delivery, and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.

Who we are supporting 

The NATO Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) is responsible for providing secure and effective communications and information technology (IT) services to NATO's member countries and its partners. The agency was established in 2012 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

The NCIA provides a wide range of services, including:

• Cyber Security: The NCIA provides advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect NATO's communication networks and information systems against cyber threats.
• Command and Control Systems: The NCIA develops and maintains the systems used by NATO's military commanders to plan and execute operations.
• Satellite Communications: The NCIA provides satellite communications services to enable secure and reliable communications between NATO forces.
• Electronic Warfare: The NCIA provides electronic warfare services to support NATO's mission to detect, deny, and defeat threats to its communication networks.
• Information Management: The NCIA manages NATO's information technology infrastructure, including its databases, applications, and servers.

Overall, the NCIA plays a critical role in ensuring the security and effectiveness of NATO's communication and information technology capabilities.

The program

Assistance and Advisory Service (AAS)

The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) is NATO’s principal C3 capability deliverer and CIS service provider. It provides, maintains and defends the NATO enterprise-wide information technology infrastructure to enable Allies to consult together under Article IV, and, when required, stand together in the face of attack under Article V.

To provide these critical services, in the modern evolving dynamic environment the NCI Agency needs to build and maintain high performance-engaged workforce. The NCI Agency workforce strategically consists of three major categorise's: NATO International Civilians (NIC)'s, Military (Mil), and Interim Workforce Consultants (IWC)'s. The IWCs are a critical part of the overall NCI Agency workforce and make up approximately 15 percent of the total workforce.

Role ID – 2025-0302

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Support NCI Agency in the NATO Programmes of Work with ACT in the area of cloud automation technologies.
• Provide technical support to NATO exercises and associated events organized by NATO bodies and the Agency.
• Collaborate in the development of software automation code using Terraform, Ansible, and/or Helm for the events.
• Perform cloud administration tasks on an AWS account based on GitOps, and on multiple Microsoft Azure tenants.
• Collaborate in the planning and organizational aspects for the upcoming experimentations.
• Participate in bi-weekly project meetings held in the NCI Agency in The Hague, either online or face-to-face.

 Essential Skills, Experience and Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. At least 2 years of relevant professional experience.
• Deep knowledge and demonstrable experience in IT automation and Infrastructure as Code (laC) tools in cloud environments, such as Ansible, Terraform, and Helm.
• Experience with containerization technologies and orchestrators, such as Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, tools and methodologies.
• Proven experience with Linux and Windows system administration.
• Strong knowledge of one or more cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI.
• Deep understanding of cloud architecture principles particularly in setting up landing zones and cloud network design
• Excellent understanding of networking concepts and cloud networking technologies.
• Experience with cryptographic elements: Key management (PKI), encryption algorithms (AES) and encryption in transit (TLS) Documentati