Who we are:

For more than 70 years, NATO’s mission has been to preserve peace and security in the Alliance for nearly one billion citizens. The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) and its predecessors have worked tirelessly in providing the means that enable the connectedness and togetherness that keep our Alliance strong. We are the NCI Agency, a team of 3000 civilian and military staff in 29 locations throughout Europe, North America and Asia.

Our technology and cyber experts allow NATO to conduct critical operations, protect NATO’s airspace, make data-driven decisions, defend against cyber-attacks, secure NATO networks and maintain superiority in space. This is all possible because of our greatest force, our people. In order to keep this edge we aim to hire, train and retain the very best staff.

Our staff members represent both the diversity and unity of our Alliance. When you join the NCI Agency, you will be part of an organization where you can contribute authentically to the mission and purpose of NATO and help us keep our technological edge.

About the job:

Based in The Hague (NL) you will join the Agency as we embark on a journey to transform our IT services to support NATO’s Digital Endeavour. You will join Chief Quality Office (CQO) / Independent Assurance Branch (IAB), which is responsible for Agency-wide quality assurance and quality control, including testing, verification and validation, independent interoperability assurance, reference environments, and related services and support.

We are looking for a driven and enthusiastic Interoperability Engineer who will take on the following roles and responsibilities:

  • Design, implement and maintain interoperability solutions that enable different systems, applications and platforms to communicate, exchange data and work together effectively.

  • Develop acceptance criteria, test plans, test cases and scenarios to verify that systems, products and services meet functional and non-functional requirements.

  • Plan, participate in and support interoperability testing events, including NATO-led mission networks and exercises such as Steadfast Cobalt and CWIX.

  • Perform interoperability assessments for projects, cross-project activities, NATO Enterprise, NATO Alliance and Mission Networks.

  • Analyse complex operational use cases, extract test conditions, design test events, and report on test activities, results, issues and risks.

  • Support interoperability assurance processes, maintain documentation and audit trails, and contribute to interoperability requirements traceability, dashboards, KPIs, strategies, policies and plans.

For a full list of duties, please review the job description on the NCI Agency career site.

About you:

The valuable knowledge and experience that you bring to this role are:

  • Bachelor’s degree at a nationally recognised/certified university in a related discipline with 2 years post-related experience, or exceptionally at least 6 years extensive and progressive expertise in duties related to the function of the post.

  • At least 2 years of recent experience in interoperability events and in planning and executing test, verification and validation activities in commercial or military environments.

  • Proven experience developing principles, assumptions, rules and guidelines to analyse, structure and classify interoperability requirements and their assessment for portfolios, programmes and projects.

  • Proven experience managing external stakeholders during the execution of large or complex projects in a commercial or military environment.

  • Experience using, designing, operating, maintaining or testing virtualized and cloud-based environments, as well as experience as a test engineer in interoperability events.

  • Experience testing NATO standards such as MIP, FFT, TDL, NVG, OTH-Gold or APP-11, or commercial standards such as NTP, DNS, SMTP/S, LDAP/S, SAML or HTTP/S, with knowledge of ISTQB foundation principles.

  • Desirable: ISTQB certification, advanced testing/testing management certification, experience with IO Toolset, Tidepedia, JIRA, NCIA applications, software engineering practices, scripting languages, MS Office tools, and prior experience in an international military and civilian environment with knowledge of NATO responsibilities and organisation.

  • Fluency in English, both written and spoken.

What we offer:

  • Genuinely meaningful work as part of the most successful alliance in history;

  • 5 year contract with competitive tax-free salary and household and children’s allowances;

  • Privileges for expatriate staff including expatriation and education allowances (where appropriate) and additional home leave;

  • Excellent private health insurance scheme;

  • Generous annual leave of 30 days plus official holidays;

  • NATO Pension Scheme;

  • Development programs such as professional training, wellbeing, and more.

To learn more about NCI Agency and our work, please visit our website.

The NCI Agency prides itself on being an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment of mutual respect and value uniqueness and differences in gender, gender identity, race, ethnic or cultural origin, age, religion, sexual orientation and physical or neurocognitive ability.

Additional details on the conditions of application can be found via the NCI Agency career site.

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