Who we are:

For 75 years, NATO’s mission has been to preserve peace and security in the Alliance for nearly one billion citizens. The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) and its predecessors have worked tirelessly in providing the means that enable the connectedness and togetherness that keep our Alliance strong. We are the NCI Agency, a team of 3000 civilian and military staff in 29 locations throughout Europe, North America and Asia.

Our technology and cyber experts allow NATO to conduct critical operations, protect NATO’s airspace, make data-driven decisions, defend against cyber-attacks, secure NATO networks and maintain superiority in space. This is all possible because of our greatest force, our people. In order to keep this edge we aim to hire, train and retain the very best staff.

Our staff members represent both the diversity and unity of our Alliance. When you join the NCIA, you will be part of an organization where you can contribute authentically to the mission and purpose of NATO and help us keep our technological edge.

About the job:

Based in The Hague, Netherlands you will join the Agency as we embark on a journey to transform our IT services to support NATO’s Digital Endeavour. You will join the Chief Technology Office (CTO), which is the key enabler of NATO’s digital transformation. With the NCIA’s architects and engineers, CTO is the hub for architecting and designing NATO’s ICT technical landscape while driving innovation, standardization, and coherence across the Alliance.

We are looking for a driven and enthusiastic Senior AI Cloud Engineer who will take on the following roles and responsibilities:

• Build and manage end-to-end ML pipelines on cloud platforms, covering data pre-processing, feature engineering, training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Work closely with data engineers to design cloud-based data pipelines.
• Collaborate with data engineers and ML engineers to productionize models using CI/CD and MLOps best practices.
• Liaise with the Cloud Centre of Excellence.
• Support NATO’s ongoing cloud migration projects.

For a full list of duties, please review the job description on the NCIA career site.

About you:

The valuable knowledge and experience that you bring to this role are:

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline (such as Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics/Statistics) and 3 years post-related experience. Or, a secondary level educational degree and at least 10 years post-related experience.
• Proficiency in at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GPC) with hands-on experience in cloud data tools like S3, Blob Storage, and GCS. Solid understanding of cloud-based security practices related to Data and AI services. Experience with Infrastructure as Code practices to streamline cloud operations.
• At least 2 years of experience in designing and implementing cloud-based Data Science and AI solutions, with a proven track record of using advanced technologies to achieve business objectives.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience with at least one of the following:
o Data manipulation and exploration, including data cleaning, pre-processing
o Machine learning and statistical techniques
o Applying pre-trained models (e.g., Generative AI) for specific use cases.
• Implementing CI/CD pipelines for ML, using cloud-native tools.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken

What we offer:

• Genuinely meaningful work as part of the most successful alliance in history;
• 3 year contract with competitive tax-free salary and household and children’s allowances;
• Privileges for expatriate staff including expatriation and education allowances (where appropriate) and additional home leave;
• Excellent private health insurance scheme;
• Generous annual leave of 30 days plus official holidays;
• NATO Pension Scheme;
• Development programs such as professional training, wellbeing, and more

To learn more about NCIA and our work, please visit our website.

The NCIA prides itself on being an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment of mutual respect and value uniqueness and differences in gender, gender identity, race, ethnic or cultural origin, age, religion, sexual orientation and physical or neurocognitive ability.

Additional details on the conditions of application can be found via the NCIA career site.