C004351 Principal Technician (DCIS) (CTS) - THU 4 Sep

Deadline Date: Thursday 4 September 2025

Requirement: Principal Technician (DCIS)

Location: Mons, BE

Full Time On-Site: Yes

Time On-Site: 100%

Total Scope of the request (hours): 500

Required Start Date: 10 October 2025

End Contract Date: 31 December 2025

Required Security Clearance: NATO COSMIC TOP SECRET

Duties & Role:

Information security

• Provides guidance on the application and operation of elementary physical, procedural and technical security controls.
• Explains the purpose of security controls and performs security risk and business impact analysis for medium complexity information systems.
• Identifies risks that arise from potential technical solution architectures.
• Designs alternate solutions or countermeasures and ensures they mitigate identified risks.
• Investigates suspected attacks and supports security incident management.

Systems design

• Designs system components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology.
• Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs.
• Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders and to handle functional and non-functional requirements.
• Models, simulates or prototypes the behaviour of proposed system components to enable approval by stakeholders.
• Produces detailed design specifications to form the basis for the construction of systems.
• Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications.

Systems integration and build

• Provides technical expertise to enable the configuration of system components and equipment for systems testing.
• Collaborates with technical teams to develop and agree system integration plans and report on progress.
• Defines complex/new integration builds.
• Ensures that environments are correctly configured.
• Designs, performs and reports results of tests of the integration build.
• Identifies and documents system integration components for recording in the configuration management system.
• Recommends and implements improvements to processes and tools.

IT infrastructure

• Provisions/installs, configures and maintains infrastructure services and components.
• Monitors, measures and reports on infrastructure load, performance and security events.
• Identifies operational issues and contributes to their resolution.
• Carries out agreed operational procedures, including backup/restore, using supplied infrastructure tools and scripts.
• Carries out agreed system software maintenance tasks.
• Automates routine system administration tasks to specifications using standard tools and basic scripting.

System software

• Monitors operational systems for resource usage and failure rates, to inform and facilitate system software tuning.
• Applies system software parameters to maximise throughput and efficiency.
• Installs and tests new versions of system software.
• Contributes to preparation of software implementation procedures with fall back contingency plans.

Storage management

• Prepares and maintains operational procedures for storage management.
• Monitors capacity, performance, availability and other operational metrics.
• Takes appropriate action to ensure corrective and proactive maintenance of storage and backup systems to protect and secure business information.
• Creates reports and proposals for improvement.
• Contributes to the planning and implementation of new installations and scheduled maintenance and changes of existing systems.

Additional duties for this post:

• Perform other duties as may be required
• Deputise for higher grade staff, if required

Skill, Knowledge & Experience:

• The candidate must have a currently active NATO COSMIC TOP SECRET security clearance
• A minimum requirement of a Bachelor's degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline and 2 years post-related experience.
• Or exceptionally, the lack of a university degree may be compensated by the demonstration of a candidate's particular abilities or experience that is/are of interest to NCI Agency, that is, at least 6 years extensive and progressive expertise in duties related to the function of the post.
• At least 2 years practical experience in the designing, implementing, and managing the underlying technology, software and hardware components that ensure the smooth functioning of servers, storage systems, data centers, and cloud services.
• Practical experience troubleshooting infrastructure related issues, perform regular maintenance
• Centralized storage systems based on FC, iSCSI, SAS or Hyper converged technology like vSAN
• Recent Virtualization Technologies based on VMWare ESXi and Virtual Centre
• Recent Microsoft Windows Server or Redhat Linux Operating Systems
• Expert Directory, Identity and Access Management consisting of multiple interconnected and federated Active Directory Domains and Forests