Requirement Title: Senior Engineer DCS (NaaS)
Location: Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium
Full time on-site: Yes
Not to Exceed: 95 Euro
Total Scope of the request (hours): 1000
Required Start Date: 13 July 2026
End Contract Date: 31 December 2026
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
Specific Working Conditions: Normal Office Conditions; Some work outside of normal office hours may be required; Up to 50 TDY within Belgium per year
Duties and Role:
- Design, implement, and maintain complex enterprise network infrastructure aligned with CCNP-level best practices and standards.
- Manage daily network operations, capacity planning, upgrades, and lifecycle activities across enterprise environments.
- Configure, optimize, and troubleshoot routing and switching protocols including BGP, OSPF, and STP.
- Ensure high availability, redundancy, and performance of LAN, WAN, and data center networks.
- Monitor network health using Splunk and other monitoring platforms; create dashboards, alerts, and operational reports.
- Analyze logs and telemetry data to proactively identify risks, incidents, and performance issues.
- Develop and maintain network automation solutions using Python or Ansible to streamline provisioning, compliance, and repetitive tasks.
- Improve operational efficiency through automation of configuration management, backups, and change validation.
- Utilize network monitoring tools to track availability, latency, bandwidth, and device health.
- Lead incident response for critical outages, coordinate stakeholders, and restore services within SLA targets.
- Perform root cause analysis and implement preventive measures to reduce recurring incidents.
- Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex network issues and strategic initiatives.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through coaching, knowledge sharing, and technical guidance.
- Lead network projects such as migrations, refreshes, expansions, and technology rollouts.
- Maintain accurate documentation, standards, and operational procedures for the network environment.
- Minimum CCNP certification (Enterprise or equivalent advanced networking certification).
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise network engineering and operations.
- Strong expertise in routing and switching (BGP, OSPF, STP).
- Experience with Splunk for monitoring, log analysis and troubleshooting.
- Network automation skills using Python or Ansible is a nice to have.
- Hands-on knowledge of network monitoring tools.
- Experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and major outage resolution.
- Experience mentoring engineers, leading projects, and acting as senior escalation point.
