Linux Infrastructure Technician

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NATO offers you more than a job. It gives you a mission: building peace and security for one billion people in Europe and North America. The NATO Communications & Information Agency is leading NATO’s Digital Endeavour. We are NATO’s technology and cyber leaders, helping NATO Nations to communicate and work together in smarter ways. Our work is challenging and meaningful, and you will develop and apply your expertise as part of a dynamic international team of civilian and military professionals.What do we offer?

• Genuinely meaningful work as part of the most successful alliance in history
• 3 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
• Pension Scheme

About The JobBased in Mons, Belgium you will join the Agency as we embark on a journey to transform our IT services to support NATO’s Digital Endeavour.The NATO Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is responsible for planning and executing all lifecycle management activities for cyber security. In executing this responsibility, NCSC provides specialist cyber security-related services covering the spectrum of scientific, technical, acquisition, operations, maintenance, and sustainment support, throughout the lifecycle of NATO Communications and Information Systems (CIS).The Infrastructure (INFRA) Branch delivers a suite of enabling services in the specific areas of Cryptography, Identity Management, Technical Services (supporting CS Operations) and CIS Protection. These services include integration and validation of NATOs crypto solutions, lifecycle management of cryptographic equipment and keys, operation and logistic support for NATO-wide online and offline cryptographic equipment, identity management services, gateway services, specialized enterprise-wide CS infrastructure (including NCSC elements), applications, implementation, configuration and management of NATO Enterprise-wide endpoint security software.You will perform scheduled checks of the NCSC enterprise LINUX environments, including health checks and auditing of system logs as needed to ensure the performance and availability of NCSC Services are meeting established service levels on the LINUX environment and provide version maintenance, control and storage of scripts, code and documentation using technologies such as BIT-Bucket. You will also deploy, consolidate, migrate, virtualise, support and decommission the NCSC enterprise LINUX environments, work with UNIX scripting and automation with tools such as Bash, Python, Puppet and Ansible to support the design, implementation and support of systems into the NCSC physical and virtual environments.For a full list of duties, please review the job description here.About YouWe are looking for a talented and knowledgeable Linux Infrastructure Technician with a higher vocational training in a relevant discipline and 3 years of post-related experience.A different qualification coupled with particularly relevant experience may also be considered.You Should Also Have

• Software engineering skills including programming and/or scripting knowledge, Python, Bash/Shell scripting
• LINUX system administration experience including knowledge and tools especially RHEL/CentOS
• Strong understanding of configuration management such as Ansible
• Knowledge of Docker or a similar container technology
• Proven ability to understand and design how different system layers (Application, Container, Network and Infra) work together and interact

Knowledge of English, both written and spoken, is essential.To learn more about NCI Agency and our work, please visit our website.Please note that ALL SELECTED CANDIDATES, with the exception of currently employed NATO International Civilians (NICs) will be appointed at the first Increment of the indicated NATO Grade, i.e. NATO Grade X, Increment 1.This is the salary referred to in this vacancy notice.Selected candidates who are not nationals of the host country and who have not been continuously resident in the host country for at least one year may be eligible for an expatriate allowance. For the purposes of determining continuous residence, NATO considers mainly the work location at the time recruitment started, independent of whether various ties were kept with the home country. For more information on our allowances click here.All selected candidates are required to complete a Security Clearance, Medical Clearance and Pre-employment Screening process before joining the NCI Agency. This process will require time, so please keep in mind that you will not be able to start working with us right away.Primary LocationBelgium-MonsNATO BodyNATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency)ScheduleFull-timeSalary (Pay Basis)4,930.57GradeNATO Grade G12