Deadline Date:
Friday 25 July 2025
Requirement:
CIS Security Accreditation Support Engineer
Location:
Brussels, BELGIUM
Time On-Site:
100%
Not to Exceed:
2025 BASE: NTE/ sprint 3,060 EUR (20 sprints, total NTE 61,200 EUR)
2026, 2027 and 2028 Options
Period of Performance:
2025 BASE: 01 September 2025
Required Security Clearance:
NATO SECRET
Please do NOT
apply for any NATO contract positions unless you meet ALL the following criteria:
- Current National or NATO SECRET clearance
- Nationality of one of the NATO member countries
- Current work visa for the specific location if applying for an in-country position
Introduction:
- NCIA requires the provision of CIS Security Accreditation Engineer services for all the activities as defined in the following sections. For the 2025 Base Services, activities will be conducted within and in support of an ongoing NHQ Accreditation project.
- Within the Agency CIS Support Unit (CSU) Brussels provides consistent, reliable and cost-effective ICT service delivery to all NATO customers located in the NATO compound in Brussels, including understanding and managing the interface with the Secretary General and Deputy Director General International Military Staff (DG IMS), through his/her delegated representatives ICTM/EXCO IMS, who act in the role of Intelligent Customer.
- The Coherence (COH) supports the Agency’s Demand Management (DM) organization, and is responsible for liaison with all customers in the CSU’s AoR and supports the Commander CSU in the role as NCIA representative and provides a single entry point for customers. Service Management Branch (SMB) contributes and/or conducts monitoring and measurement of customer satisfaction. SMB supports the management of all agreements concerning Service Provision, Operations and Exercises within the CSU AoR. SMB supports Service Lines in the implementation and improvement of service management processes.
- Service Design and CIS Security (SDCS) team consists of subject matter experts mainly providing security compliance, risk assessment, risk management and security architecture services.
The main objectives of this statement of work can be summarized as follows:
- Support to organize, coordinate and perform CIS security compliance and verification activities;
- Support CIS security accreditation activities and remediation tasks;
- Support and participate high-level, multi-stakeholder CIS security related meetings and forums.
Essential qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, Risk Management, or a related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in information security, risk management, or IT audit roles.
- Experience and knowledge in cyber security frameworks.
- Experience and knowledge in cybersecurity audit reports analysis.
- In-depth understanding of cybersecurity technologies and tools.
- Strong ability to communicate complex security issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Proficiency in managing and coordinating, demonstrating skills in team building and guidance.
- Preparing and delivering presentations to stakeholders in different forums.
- Ability to engage with technical teams, comprehend challenges, and provide informed guidance.
- Skilled in planning, executing, and overseeing technical CIS activities.
- Experience and knowledge in level of effort estimation to remediate the findings of an audit.
- Experience and knowledge in coordinating remediation and/or mitigation activities.
- Experience and knowledge on drafting remediation plans and maintaining them.
- Strong analytical skills to assess technical issues, identify root causes, and implement effective solutions.
- General experience on complex enterprise networks with multiple stakeholders and a diverse user community.
- General experience in all lifecycle aspects of Communication Information Systems (CIS) aimed at achieving effective system development and deployment.
- Sound technical knowledge on wide area networks and local area networks.
- Experience in developing technical policy level documents; in CIS and in services management.