Requirement: Engineer (Cloud and Kubernetes)
Location: Braine-l'Alleud, 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: 14 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 & 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 virtual machines, storage, and databases on cloud, ensuring high availability and performance.
- Manage and optimize cloud networking components like VPCs, subnets, route tables, VPNs, and Direct Connect.
- 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.
Skills, Knowledge & Experience:
- The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
- Sound experience with Amazon AWS cloud environment (IAM, EC2, ALB, CloudFront, CloudFormation, WAF, Monitoring, Storage, Cognito)
- Experience with operating enterprise Azure environments (IaaS and PaaS services).
- Experience with Azure VMs, storage accounts, virtual networks, Load Balancers and Azure monitor
- Strong and hands-on experience with Kubernetes clusters and Docker containers (on Cloud and on premisses)
- Experience with DevOps practices, including continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD).
- Proficiency in managing and securing VPC networks, firewalls, and access control.
- 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.
