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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 Background

The NATO Information and Communication Agency (NCI Agency) located in Mons, Belgium, is currently involved in the development of new capabilities for NATO as well as in the support of existing capabilities. In the light of these activities, the C2 Centre is looking for an experienced software developer. More specifically, the work shall support the full software development cycle of the Logistics Functional Area Services (LOGFAS) suite of applications.

Role Duties and Responsibilities

  • Participate in daily status update meetings, sprint planning, sprint retrospectives and other meetings, in person via electronic means.
  • Participate in requirements elicitation, analysis and design discussions.
  • Support bug fixing and stability improvements.
  • Implement and review software changes as required.
  • Create and implement (automated) test cases.
  • Create and update documentation.
  • Investigate the best ways to solve problems, including documenting and presenting pros and cons to the team.
  • As full stack software developer, work on:
    • The application data model, application programming interface and web services.
    • The authentication and authorization services.
    • The web front-ends.
    • The desktop applications.

Essential Skills and Experience

  • Minimum of 5 years of full stack development experience with the following technologies: .NET Framework and .NET, Entity Framework, and the C# programming language.
  • Experience with Service-oriented Architecture software design and with the development of web APIs.
  • Experience with software development for web application technologies, including ASP.NET, Ext JS and Angular.
  • Experience with software development using of OpenID Connect (OIDC), WSO2 and ADFS.
  • Experience with JSON Web Tokens (JWT) or similar token formats such as Security Assertion Mark-up Language (SAML).
  • Experience with Visual Studio and PostgreSQL or similar relational database management systems such as Microsoft SQL Server or MySQL.
  • Experience with Microsoft desktop application development, including a solid understanding of asynchronous programming in multi-thread applications.
  • Experience with Git version source control.
  • Experience with Design Thinking, Dev(Sec)Ops and Agile software development.
  • Experience with cloud computing services such as Microsoft Azure.
  • Proven ability to integrate and work in a multinational team.
  • The ability to conduct all work in fluent business English.

Education

  • University degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent.

Working Location

  • Remote

Working Policy

  • Off-Site

Travel

  • Some travel to other NATO sites may be required

Security Clearance

  • No Clearance Required

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