Engineer (Application Support)

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;
• NATO Pension Scheme.

About the job

Based in Brain L ‘Alleud to the south of Brussels, Belgium you will join the Agency as we embark on a journey to transform our IT services to support NATO’s Digital Endeavour.

This post is assigned to the Service Support and Business Applications(SSBA) Business Area, with the Business Area Chief being accountable for planning and executing all lifecycle management activities (design; transition; operations) for all logistics (service support) and business application services (including subject matter expertise; research and development; software engineering acquisition; operations & maintenance; and, disposal) in diverse technical service areas.

For a full list of duties please review the job description here.

About you

We are looking for a talented and knowledgeable Engineer (Application Support)who holds:

• minimum a Bachelor’s degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline and 2 years post related experience ( exceptionally, the lack of a university/college degree may be compensated by the demonstration of a candidate’s particular abilities or experience that is/are of interest to NCI Agency);
• experience in Human Resource (HR) IT applications related to personnel, posts, organisations, identity management and badges;
• experience with programming languages and platforms like .NET and C#;
• experience with Microsoft SQL Server administration;
• experience ( at least two years ) in various areas of Software Engineering;
• k nowledge and experience in state-of-the-art technologies, relevant to Software Engineering;
• knowledge of ITIL V3 or ITIL4 service management framework;
• ability to work in cross functional a pplication teams and to communicate effectively, with good briefing skills.

Knowledge of English, both written and spoken is essential.

Competencies

The NCI Agency is looking for individuals have tangible experience and knowledge in the following areas:

• Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations
• Deciding and Initiating Action;
• Adapting and Responding to Change
• Achieving Personal Work Goals and Objectives

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