Requirement: Cloud Engineer
Location: Brussels, BELGIUM
Full Time On-Site: No
Time On-Site: 40%
Not to Exceed Rate: 95 EUR
Total Scope of the request (hours): Base period 2027: 38 hours/week for a total of 42 weeks and a total of 1596 hours
Period of Performance: 2027 BASE: 18 Jan 2027 to 31 Dec 2027
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
Introduction
The Cyber Threat Analysis Branch (CTAB) is looking for a Cloud Engineer to further develop and maintain the cloud environment used to host NATO's cyber threat intelligence platform, intended to support cyber threat intelligence production for the NATO Enterprise and Alliance.
Background Information
The Joint Intelligence and Security Division (JISD), under the leadership of the Assistant Secretary General for Intelligence and Security (ASG I&S), comprises two principal pillars: Intelligence - headed by the Deputy ASG for Intelligence; and the NATO Office of Security (NOS) - headed by the Deputy ASG for Security. Intelligence is responsible for ensuring the situational awareness of the North Atlantic Council and the Military Committee, for the analysis of the indications and warnings in support of the NATO Crisis Response System and for the development of intelligence policies and capabilities for NATO. Its functional areas address: intelligence analysis and production, intelligence policy and capability development.
The joint civilian and military Intelligence Production Unit (IPU), under the JISD, delivers strategic intelligence-based analysis to support North Atlantic Council (NAC) and Military Committee (MC) decision making on strategic issues of concern. The IPU produces a range of planned and tasked intelligence products on regional issues in Eurasia, Africa and the Middle East, and on transnational issues such as hybrid warfare, terrorism, instability, weapons of mass destruction and energy security.
The Cyber Threat Analysis Branch (CTAB), under the IPU, is responsible for providing evidence-based assessments of the cyber threat landscape to empower NATO stakeholders to make risk-informed decisions. The multidisciplinary team combines all-source data with cutting edge technologies to support and enhance the Alliance leaderships' understanding on the nature of cyber competition and conflict. CTAB systematically identifies strategic patterns and trends in cyber space and generates tailored insights to support network defence and mission assurance with predictive analysis, cyber threat intelligence, and threat hunting.
Statements of Objectives
Corporate Objective
The contractor (Cloud Engineer) will support the work of the Cyber Threat Analysis Branch and be responsible for maintain and developing CTAB's cloud environment in order to support the functioning of CTAB's cyber threat intelligence platform.
Contract Objective
- Obtain specialist consulting services to support the following initiatives:
- Ensure the integrity, availability and confidentiality of CTAB's cloud environment and lead maintenance and development efforts together with a software engineer, data scientist, and CTI researchers.
- Push for innovative new ways to architect security, data flows, and cost optimalization within the environment while ensuring maximum stability, scalability and functionality.
- Develop automation pipelines for infrastructure provisioning and configuration as well as for coding projects within the platform, while ensuring up-to-date documentation and clear communications on performed work.
- Help in transitioning from a AWS-based cloud environment to a Azure-based cloud environment.
Allow the Contractor the maximum flexibility to innovatively manage its corporate resources and expertise so as to provide a high-value contribution in support to NATO's corporate and contract objectives within existing constraints and available funding.
Requirements
General Requirements
All general and domain specific qualification requirements stated in the AAS+ Framework Agreement shall be applicable (e.g., required English proficiency).
- The Contractor will require a NATO SECRET clearance.
In addition to the generic qualification requirements established in the AAS+ Agreement, The Contractor must have:
- A university degree from a nationally recognised/certified university in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Operations Research, etc.) with substantial systems engineering content and 2 years of specific experience - OR - at least 4 years' experience similar to the tasks described in this SoW and relevant industry recognized certificates.
- Knowledge of and experience in maintaining and developing multi-account AWS cloud environments, specifically in core AWS products such as Lambda, S3, CloudTrail, ECS, EC2, and similar, as well as working according to industry best practices such as AWS's Well Architected Framework.
- Significant experience in using Terraform to build and maintain cloud infrastructure as code, setting up CI/CD pipelines, automating containerized workloads on ECS and conditional access.
- Able to set up monitoring, logging and alerting with tools like CloudTrail and GuardDuty, and experienced in managing IAM with SSO, VPC networking, and least-privilege security controls.
- Proficient in Python and Bash and knowledge of Docker, Linux administration and Git.
- Experience within cybersecurity and/or the intelligence domain is strongly preferred but not required for this role, as is experience with Azure.
- Good communication skills, both orally and written. Able to translate complex technical topics into information conveyable to non-domain experts. Can easily cooperate with non-cloud experts and explain conducted work, as well as give and take feedback and create clear and structured documentation based on the work conducted.
