Requirement: Senior Engineer DCS
Location: Mons, BELGIUM
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
Not to Exceed Rate: 95 EUR
Total Scope of the request (hours): 350
Required Start Date: 17 November 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:
- ESOC Engineer, Enterprise Service Operations Centre Level 2 network support;
- Manage daily network operations, ticketing, incidents, work orders, changes and problem management.
- Network Optimization, capacity planning, upgrades, and lifecycle activities across enterprise environments;
- Configure, optimize, and troubleshoot routing and switching protocols including BGP, OSPF, and STP;
- Monitor network health using CA Spectrum and Splunk and other monitoring platforms; create dashboards, alerts, and operational reports;
- Analyze logs and telemetry data to proactively identify risks, incidents, and performance issues;
- 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;
- Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex network issues and strategic initiatives;
- Maintain accurate documentation, standards, and operational procedures for the network environment.
Skills, Knowledge & Experience:
- The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
- 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, troubleshooting, dashboards, and alerting.
- Hands-on knowledge of network monitoring tools.
- Experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and major outage resolution.
