Engineering Support

We are always looking to add great new talent to our team and look forward to hearing from you.
Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO UN EU and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services specialised aerospace and defence sales delivery and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.
Who we are supporting
The NATO Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) is responsible for providing secure and effective communications and information technology (IT) services to NATOs member countries and its partners. Electronic Warfare: The NCIA provides electronic warfare services to support NATOs mission to detect deny and defeat threats to its communication networks.
Information Management: The NCIA manages NATOs information technology infrastructure including its databases applications and servers.
Overall the NCIA plays a critical role in ensuring the security and effectiveness of NATOs communication and information technology capabilities.
It provides maintains and defends the NATO enterprise-wide information technology infrastructure to enable Allies to consult together under Article IV and when required stand together in the face of attack under Article V.
NATO International Civilians (NIC)s Military (Mil) and Interim Workforce Consultants (IWC)s. Supporting NATO throughout all its geographical locations the NCI Agency is looking for Support for DevSecOps Engineering joining the journey of NATOs modernization of IT services through leveraging the public cloud (Microsoft Azure) delivering managed protected security-centric and reliable IT Services.
Our focus is on leveraging public cloud technologies like Microsoft Azure incorporating a security-by-design approach and ensuring a seamless transition to a modern collaborative workplace environment.
To achieve these goals we are building a Cloud Operations Center team under the Cloud Portfolio operating under the NATO Enterprise Cloud Operating Model (NECOM) and under the guidance of the Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE). The NECOM framework provides a standardized approach for cloud service management ensuring interoperability scalability and security across NATOs IT infrastructure. The Cloud Center of Excellence will serve as a hub for best practices innovation and expertise driving the adoption and optimization of cloud technologies within NATO. This team will play a crucial role in our journey towards providing managed protected and reliable End User Services.
By continuously evolving and integrating new technologies we aim to enhance operational efficiency and readiness for future challenges. This remote position offers an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of NATOs technological evolution and contribute to the security and efficiency of our operations.

The Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) within the NCI Agency is focused on driving successful cloud adoption and maximizing the potential of cloud technologies across the organization. It serves as a central governing body promoting best practices enabling knowledge sharing and ensuring alignment between business objectives and cloud initiatives. The CCoE supports various cloud-based solutions ensuring their effective and efficient implementation and management. By fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation the CCoE helps the NCI Agency leverage cloud technologies to enhance operational efficiency scalability and agility.
The ideal service will offer expertise in managing resources in Microsoft Azure Cloud by leveraging DevSecOps practices. This service is critical for maintaining a secure and efficient cloud environment supporting internal users and external collaborators.
Operation of cloud infrastructure in Microsoft Azure by leveraging DevSecOps practices
Deploy and manage landing zones by utilizing DevSecOps practices to ensure a secure scalable foundation for cloud workloads;
Deploy and manage cloud workloads on top of the landing zones in an automated fashion;
Deploy and monitor Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) including sizing patching backup performance tuning and cost optimization;
Monitor the performance and effectiveness of landing zones and cloud workloads;
Support for application deployment and troubleshooting
Manage secure and reliable access to applications for end-users including configuration of Azure Application Gateways Azure load-balancers and custom domains;
Monitor Application availability performance and security using services such as Azure Monitor Log Analytics Application insights and configure automated alerts;
Provide support for Microsoft Azure Services - related issues including troubleshooting access networking and cloud resource specific issues;
Collaborate with IT security compliance and other relevant teams to ensure cohesive cloud resources management strategies.
Contribute to the lifecycle of cloud secure products in collaboration with the CTO CCOE to ensure reusable secure and automated infrastructure modules
Lead operational readiness for new cloud solutions by establishing runbooks knowledge base transfer sessions and handover to support teams

In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Azure Cloud IaaS/PaaS Services;
Experience in managing deploying and monitoring Azure Virtual Machines (VMs);
Expertise in enabling secure and reliable access to applications for end- users.
Excellent communication skills to effectively collaborate with IT teams stakeholders and end-users;
Ability to document processes clearly and provide training on Microsoft Azure Services and DevSecOps practices.
Attention to detail in managing user accounts groups and access controls.
Team Collaboration:
Ability to work effectively as part of a team and share knowledge and resources;
The Contractor has strong customer relationship skills including negotiating complex and sensitive situations under pressure;
Full proficiency in the English language. French language proficiency is of advantage.