Senior DevSecOps Engineer

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 NATO's member countries and its partners. The agency was established in 2012 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.
The NCIA provides a wide range of services, including:
Cyber Security: The NCIA provides advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect NATO's communication networks and information systems against cyber threats.
Command and Control Systems: The NCIA develops and maintains the systems used by NATO's military commanders to plan and execute operations.
Satellite Communications: The NCIA provides satellite communications services to enable secure and reliable communications between NATO forces.
Electronic Warfare: The NCIA provides electronic warfare services to support NATO's mission to detect, deny, and defeat threats to its communication networks.
Information Management: The NCIA manages NATO's information technology infrastructure, including its databases, applications, and servers.
Overall, the NCIA plays a critical role in ensuring the security and effectiveness of NATO's communication and information technology capabilities.
The program
Assistance and Advisory Service (AAS)
The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) is NATO’s principal C3 capability deliverer and CIS service provider. 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.
To provide these critical services, in the modern evolving dynamic environment the NCI Agency needs to build and maintain high performance-engaged workforce. The NCI Agency workforce strategically consists of three major categorise's: NATO International Civilians (NIC)'s, Military (Mil), and Interim Workforce Consultants (IWC)'s. The IWCs are a critical part of the overall NCI Agency workforce and make up approximately 15 percent of the total workforce.
Role ID – C005486
Role Background
You will help plan, build, integrate and deploy secure CI/CD and automation capabilities in on-premises, mission-critical environments. You will work with project teams, architects and security stakeholders to deliver solutions that are secure, interoperable and fit for current and future operational needs.
Role Duties and Responsibilities
Design, implement and maintain DevSecOps pipelines and automation frameworks in secure on-premises environments
Develop technical designs and install, configure and integrate DevSecOps components
Plan and run testing and acceptance activities, and support deployment and migration efforts
Build security controls and compliance requirements into the software development lifecycle
Implement SAST, DAST, SCA and vulnerability management processes
Implement Infrastructure as Code, configuration management and automated deployment
Deploy and support containerised and cloud-native workloads on-premises
Produce technical documentation, deployment procedures, architecture diagrams, security artefacts and handover documentation
Contribute to risk identification and mitigation, quality assurance and project governance
Provide regular service reports covering progress, milestones, risks, issues, QA findings, planned activities and escalations
Essential Skills, Experience and Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, Cybersecurity, Engineering or a related field (or equivalent combination of education and professional experience)
5+ years in DevSecOps, DevOps, software engineering, platform engineering or infrastructure automation
Experience supporting on-premises CIS environments, including enterprise data centres and mission-critical systems
Hands-on experience with secure CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps or equivalent)
IaC and automation experience (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet or equivalent) and scripting in Python, Bash or PowerShell
Docker and Kubernetes experience, including container security and image and lifecycle management
Experience with secrets management, identity and access management and secure configuration
Experience with Linux and Windows Server environments and virtualisation platforms
Monitoring and observability experience (Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic or equivalent)
At least one of: CKA, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, Docker Certified Associate, or an equivalent DevOps, platform engineering or automation certification
At least one of: CompTIA Security+, GSEC, ISC2 CC, or an equivalent cybersecurity certification
Fluent/ professional English
Nice to Have:
Experience in military, defence, government or other mission-critical environments
Previous NATO / NCIA project experience
Working Location
Brunssum, Netherlands
Working Policy
Full-time on-site
Travel
Some travel to other NATO sites may be required
Security Clearance
Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance