Senior Software Engineer

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 – C004224

Role Background

Assurance Tools Section as part of the Assurance Solutions Branch who are responsible for the design, development and support of tools to support the Assurance and verification and validation of Communication Information Systems (CIS) readiness of NATO Command Structure and interoperability with and between assigned National and Multinational forces that participate in NATO-led missions and exercises. They will be contributing to the Interoperability Toolset development

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Design an Observability solution able to integrate the selected technologies and the set of tools that are part of the IO Toolset;


• Create automated deployment and configuration scripts


• Implement and deploy a pilot of the Observability solution on the NATO Software Factory (NSF) test environments;


• Integration the IO Toolset into the observability solution using open standards;


• Design and implement a set of dashboards which visualize the information required by the stakeholders;


• Support the software in operational environments where needed

Essential Skills and Experience

• 8+ years of experience designing and developing IT systems


• Experience with the design, implementation, installation and configuration of an Observability solution and data visualization dashboards in a Microsoft oriented service oriented architecture.


• Experience with authentication and authorization flows, preferably OAuth and OIDC using Keycloak


• Experience with instrumenting .NET applications using Open Telemetry using both of the shelf metrics and custom meters.


• Experience integrating an observability solution in a Microsoft oriented stack


• Experience with security and secure coding principles


• Obsessed with writing clean modular loosely coupled code


• Experience with ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana or equivalent


• Experience with Docker


• Experience with Azure DevOps pipelines


• Experience with PowerShell


• Strong English verbal and written communication skills


• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions


• Experience with working in a team of 5+ developers and testers


• Ability to communicate with clarity, coherence, conciseness and engagement, both orally and in writing

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Experience with test management, test planning, test execution and test reporting


• Experience with quality assurance and quality control


• Experience with C#


• Experience with .NET 6 or later


• Experience with EF6 or EF Core

Working Location

• The Hague, Netherlands

Working Policy

• On-Site

Travel

• Some travel to other NATO sites may be required

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance