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 NCIA, 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, 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 Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) within the Chief Technology Office, which plays a crucial role in ensuring that NATO Enterprises' objectives are met through the effective use of cloud computing technology. The CCoE is responsible for defining and managing the factors that drive decision-making for public, private, and hybrid cloud scenarios. It also manages a management framework for consuming cloud technical services, evaluates and selects vendor/service provider offerings, and develops a cloud FinOps strategy for cloud technical service chargeback and billing. Additionally, the CCoE establishes architecture standards for cloud-based applications to reduce technical debt and foster reuse, defines procedures, processes, and tooling for cloud-based application and infrastructure solution architecture, application and infrastructure development, and legacy renovation. The CCoE also develops management and security requirements and designs to ensure that cloud-based solutions are secure and well-managed.

We are looking for a driven and enthusiastic Senior Service Engineer (DevSecOps) who will take on the following roles and responsibilities:

• Provide mentoring and guidance to development teams in business units on DevSecOps best practices;
• Contribute to capturing formal guidance on DevSecOps in the relevant organizational directives and standard operating procedures and instructions;
• Develop and present business cases, for high-level initiatives, approval, funding and prioritisation;
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and best practices in DevSecOps and cloud security, and provide thought leadership and guidance to the organization on DevSecOps-related matters.

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 Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 3 years post-related experience. Or, in absence of a Bachelor's degree, a secondary school level qualification and at least 10 years post-related experience.
• A minimum of 3 years' experience enabling DevSecOps practices adoption by supporting the development of cloud capabilities that are compliant with cloud security and service management requirements.
• Deep experience in automation for testing and deployment, and shifting security assessment to the left, by designing standardized cloud building blocks that can be re-used in continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
• At least 3 years’ experience in building DevSecOps engineering platform using public cloud services;
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in with a variety of tools and technologies that are commonly used in the DevSecOps space such as:
- Source code management: GitLab, ADO
- Continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD): Jenkins, Travis CI, CircleCI, GitLab and ADO CI/CD
- Infrastructure as code (IaC): Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Puppet, Chef
- Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes
- Cloud platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform
- Security tools: SonarQube, OWASP ZAP, Nexus
- Monitoring and logging: Prometheus, Grafana
• Experience in providing support and guidance to technical teams during implementation of large Software projects.
• Experience managing relationships with senior stakeholders (internal and external)
• Proven ability to apply analytical and systems thinking to complex problems.
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken

What we offer:

• Genuinely meaningful work as part of the most successful alliance in history;
• 5 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.