Requirement: Infrastructure Engineer
Location: The Hague, NETHERLANDS
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
Not to Exceed Rate: 79 EUR
Total Scope of the request (hours): 600
Required Start Date: 1 September 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
Duties & Role:
- Contributes to the development of infrastructure architectures.
- Identifies and evaluates alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.
- Documents architecturally significant decisions.
- Produces specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers and interfaces, for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products.
- Supports projects or change initiatives through the preparation of technical plans and application of design principles.
- Aligns solutions with enterprise and solution architecture standards (including security).
- Follows agreed standards and applies appropriate techniques to elicit and document detailed requirements.
- Reviews requirements for errors and omissions.
- Provides input to the requirements base-line.
- Ensures projects are carried out in accordance with agreed architectures, standards, methods and tools and addresses security and privacy requirements.
Skills, Knowledge & Experience:
- The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
- The service contractor will be required to have a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree at a nationally recognised/certified university in a technical subject with substantial Information Technology (IT) content and 3 years post-related experience. As an exception, the lack of a university degree may be compensated by the demonstration of a candidate's particular abilities or experience that are of interest to the NCI Agency; namely, at least 5 years of extensive and progressive experience in the duties related to the functions of this post.
- The service contractor will be required to have experience in distributed technical environments and modern platform delivery practices.
- Cloud platforms and hybrid environments, including Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, and containerized deployment models
- Networking, secure connectivity, and infrastructure constraints relevant to NATO environments
- DevOps tooling, CI/CD platforms such as GitLab, and infrastructure automation
- Site and deployment engineering
- Lab and simulation environment support
- Tool administration and engineering support for MBSE and related engineering environments
- Prior experience of working in an international environment comprising both military and civilian elements.
- Knowledge of NATO organization, internal structure and resultant relationships.
