Requirement: Core GIS System Engineer
Location: The Hague, NETHERLANDS
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
Not to Exceed Rate: 63 EUR
Total Scope of the request (hours): 1533
Required Start Date: 16 February 2026
End Contract Date: 31 December 2026
Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET
Duties & Role:
- Provide 2nd and 3rd level support for NATO Core GIS;
- Provide support to the Core GIS IT Reference and Support environments;
- Act as a technical expert and takes responsibility to monitor the enterprise incident management system, manage incident resolution, diagnose faults, determine root causes, and provide technical expertise to resolve incidents and their root causes;
- Assist with the deployment, software changes and upgrades of the current Core GIS software baseline;
- Act as the technical subject matter expert to the development of future Core GIS baselines;
- Create installation and accreditation documentation for the Core GIS system;
- Assist with the Core GIS baseline User Acceptance testing;
- Assist with maintaining all Core GIS training course documentation and Core GIS training environment in line with the latest approved Core GIS;
- Provide Core GIS system training.
Skill, Knowledge & Experience:
- The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
- Nationally recognized/certified university qualification in an IT, Computer, Software or GIS related discipline and a minimum of 6 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 3 years extensive and progressive expertise in duties related to the function of the post;
- Multi-year hands on experience in IT enterprise infrastructure and enterprise level platform services (such as databases, virtualization platforms, operating systems, network components, certificates, firewalls and anti-virus software) required for the design, installation, operation and troubleshooting of a highly integrated distributed enterprise level system;
- Experience with VMWare virtual server implementation, optimization and management;
- Proficient in Python, PowerShell or other scripting tools;
- Professional experience with direct customer contact and the direct interaction with customers.
- Solid experience in working in a Microsoft environment with shared data access;
- Ability to independently plan and execute assigned project tasks under guidance, taking into account policies, programme goals, priorities, funding and other planning constraints;
- Ability to receive and execute tasking in accordance with direction from NCI Agency staff;
- Ability to work on its own and as part of a team;
- Strong communication skills in English;
- Core GIS leverages the ArcGIS Suite as its primary Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software for geospatial data management, analysis and visualization. Candidates should be comfortable working in environments where ArcGIS is central to delivering mapping solutions, spatial analytics and enterprise GIS capabilities.
- Strong understanding of the Esri ArcGIS Product Suite, including its core functionalities and use cases;
- Hand-on experience with installing, configuring and managing Esri ArcGIS Enterprise components such as ArcGIS Server, Portal for ArcGIS and related modules
- Familiarity with best practices for system deployment, integration and maintenance within enterprise environments