Requirement Title: Engineer (Cloud and Databases)
Location: Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium
Full time on-site: Yes
Not to Exceed: 95 Euro
Total Scope of the request (hours): 350
Required Start Date: 9 December 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 and Role
- Administer, configure enterprise-wide cloud environments (MS Azure or AWS)
- Provide Level 2/3 support for cloud related issues, investigating and resolving operational problems in a timely manner.
- Provision and maintain VMs, storage on cloud and databases on prem and on cloud, ensuring high availability and performance.
- Manage and optimize cloud components.
- Automate the deployment and management of AWS or Azure resources using Terraform, or similar tools.
- Develop scripts (Python, Bash, PowerShell) to automate routine tasks, such as instance management, backups, and scaling
- Perform other duties, as may be required.
- NATO Secret security clearance
- Sound experience with Database management systems (like MS SQL, Oracle DB, PostgreSQL, MySQL) on Cloud and on premisses
- Sound experience with AWS and Azure environments (IaaS and PaaS services).
- Experience with VMs, storage accounts, virtual networks and monitoring tools on Cloud.
- Experience with DevOps practices, including continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD).
- Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools (CloudWatch, ELK Stack, Prometheus).
- Must have excellent spoken and written English communication and presentation skills, as demonstrated by recent experience (within the past 5 years);
- Excellent communication skills to effectively interact with users, team members and stakeholders
- Must demonstrate the ability and self-motivation to work on his/her own but must also work well within groups as part of a team;
- Must demonstrate an ability and keen sense for problem-solving.
- Motivated, good communication skills, team player.
- Able to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Knowledge of NATO responsibilities and organization.
