[Hiring] Unified Communications and Community SME @Spektrum

Spektrum helps apex purchasers (NATO, UN, EU, and Nationwide Authorities and Defence) and their Tier 1 provider ecosystem with a variety of specialist companies. We offer our purchasers with skilled companies, specialised aerospace and defence gross sales, supply, and operational subject material experience. We’re in search of personnel to affix our workforce and help key consumer initiatives.

Who we’re supporting 

The NATO Communication and Info Company (NCIA) is liable for offering safe and efficient communications and data know-how (IT) companies to NATO’s member international locations and its companions. The company was established in 2012 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

The NCIA offers a variety of companies, together with:

• Cyber Safety: The NCIA offers superior cybersecurity options to guard NATO’s communication networks and data techniques in opposition to cyber threats.
• Command and Management Techniques: The NCIA develops and maintains the techniques utilized by NATO’s army commanders to plan and execute operations.
• Satellite tv for pc Communications: The NCIA offers satellite tv for pc communications companies to allow safe and dependable communications between NATO forces.
• Digital Warfare: The NCIA offers digital warfare companies to help NATO’s mission to detect, deny, and defeat threats to its communication networks.
• Info Administration: The NCIA manages NATO’s info know-how infrastructure, together with its databases, purposes, and servers.

General, the NCIA performs a essential function in making certain the safety and effectiveness of NATO’s communication and data know-how capabilities.

This system

Help and Advisory Service (AAS)

The NATO Communications and Info Company (NCI Company) is NATO’s principal C3 functionality deliverer and CIS service supplier. It offers, maintains and defends the NATO enterprise-wide info know-how infrastructure to allow Allies to seek the advice of collectively beneath Article IV, and, when required, stand collectively within the face of assault beneath Article V.

To supply these essential companies, within the fashionable evolving dynamic setting the NCI Company must construct and preserve excessive performance-engaged workforce. The NCI Company workforce strategically consists of three main categorise’s: NATO Worldwide Civilians (NIC)’s, Navy (Mil), and Interim Workforce Consultants (IWC)’s. The IWCs are a essential a part of the general NCI Company workforce and make up roughly 15 % of the entire workforce.

Function Background

Inside its mission, the NATO Digital Workers (NDS) is actively driving ahead numerous particular areas together with the nations, and particularly the Digital Standardisation and Interoperability (DSI) Department are driving resilient safe communications interoperability for wi-fi and wired communications and tactical routing for Multi-Area Operations (MDO) in keeping with the 2022 Strategic Idea, NATO 2030, Alliance C3 Coverage, and associated insurance policies and methods

DSI Safe Communications helps the Nations obtain interoperable, safe, federated and resilient Alliance C4 communications on the tactical, deployable and strategic ranges, together with software of Rising and Disruptive Applied sciences (EDTs) akin to 5G, Zero Belief, quantum computing, and virtualization. The duties are aligned with the Digital Coverage Committee (DPC) Strains of Growth (LoD), offering help to the work of the DPC Substructure in Functionality Panels 1 and 4 and their subordinate Functionality Groups (CaT) together with (however not solely) for Community and Safety, Line of Sight, Past Line of Sight and SATCOM

On this context, the NDS Programme of Work (PoW) requires skilled technical and managerial data in Interoperability matters, notably within the areas coping with safe networking, safe voice, communication architectures, Zero Belief, quantum computing, and information centric safety, amongst others, that contribute to Interoperability within the NATO context.

Below this PoW undertaking, NATO Built-in Cell Companies Centre offers SME help companies to the NDS to immediately help the NATO Alliance Capabilities and not directly help the event of NATO Enterprise CIS.

Function Duties and Obligations

• The chosen contractor shall be accountable to help the NCIA PoW groups and the NDS sponsors in offering coordination and administration of the totally different work strands, together with:
  • Growing the required supporting artefacts;
  • Supporting the PoW undertaking supervisor and the varied technical leads;
  • Proactively coordinating actions with different NCIA PoW groups (working in associated matter areas and sub-programmes within the general NDS PoW); and,
  • Exercising technical management and administration of labor packages inside the Safe Communications Interoperability work strands as essential.
• Take part in portfolio administration, programme administration and related coordination actions with a view to enhance the situational consciousness at portfolio and programme ranges, establish hyperlinks between the NDS PoW and different NATO programmes of labor and initiatives, develop technical and non-technical dashboards, and liaise with non-technical employees.
• Manage and interact in scoping discussions with sponsors and undertaking workforce members on PoW actions, elaborate work plans, and act as technical supervisor and/or senior contributor to the work to be performed.
• Put together, arrange and lead scoping and coordination conferences with the totally different PoW exterior and inside stakeholders, and contribute to general coherence and consciousness in PoW execution.
• Present technical briefings and shows on the progress of the varied work actions, ensuring that work plans are adopted and meet inside and exterior milestones.
• Elaborate high-quality technical studies and briefs to be circulated as NATO technical paperwork and inputs to NATO committees and different boards.
• Carry out different duties as required, together with deputizing for the senior NCIA undertaking workforce members as required.
• Present SME help on safe communications interoperability and resilience matters that facilitate the Digital Coverage Committee (DPC) substructure (with give attention to the Community and Safety Functionality Staff) to take care of requirements, undertake specs into NATO requirements (akin to SCIP and NINE), and develop requirements when essential;
• Present SME help to encourage using DPC communication requirements, with a selected give attention to SCIP, NINE, Zero Belief, and Protected Core Networking;
• Contribute SME data to DPC safe communications Insurance policies / Steerage / Architectures as directed by the NDS;
• Develop shows and briefs to help DPC discussions on safe communications and resilience to facilitate a shared understanding amongst totally different stakeholders on interoperability points and architectural choices for resilient federated safe communications;
• Assist to make sure alignment of DPC safe communication requirements (voice and information) with NATO necessities and with DPC insurance policies/ methods/ rules (akin to Cloud First, Zero Belief, service primarily based, crypto modernization, NATO 2030, Multi Area Operations, and many others.);
• Preserve technical consciousness of Federated Mission Community (FMN) specs within the space of federated communication requirements and establish potential DPC work gadgets to help FMN. This will require engagement with FMN technical syndicate(s).

Important Abilities and Expertise

• A senior profile matching the extent of a principal engineer with a strong scientific background and with a confirmed observe report of technical administration work within the space of safe communications (voice and information) in defence networks.
• With restricted steerage, coordinate actions with the totally different stakeholders and arrange conferences and discussions to debate and/or current interim outcomes;
• Partaking with stakeholders, understanding their wants, issues and requests, and proposing constructive methods forward;
• Planning, coordinating and execution of technical and scientific work for defence initiatives involving a number of stakeholders, together with growth of undertaking administration artefacts and documentation like plans, standing studies, briefs, and many others.;
• Gathering disparate info from a number of sources and constructing our bodies of information;
• Conducting evaluation and creating ideas within the areas of safe communications, together with making use of structure methodologies the place related;
• Speaking successfully in English each in writing and orally, with glorious writing and briefing abilities to various kinds of audiences (together with senior technical and non-technical stakeholders), with shows at conferences and NATO venues and writing high-quality technical studies for NATO circulation;
• Latest NATO expertise, together with direct help to NATO technical session actions beneath the Digital Coverage Committee Substructure and their associated work.
• Detailed understanding of safe networking in NATO and multinational contexts, together with on the NATO Community and Safety Functionality Staff (N&S CaT);
• Expertise and data in present developments in NATO communications, akin to connectivity resilience, Subsequent Technology Networks, FMN Specs, Protected Core Networking, IPv6, Software program Outlined WAN, the SCIP (safe voice) and NINE (safe IP) requirements, Zero Belief, and NATO and multinational situations for safe IP and voice communications, together with in NATO Enterprise associated contexts.

Working Location

Working Coverage

Journey

• Some journey to different NATO websites could also be required

Safety Clearance

• Legitimate Nationwide or NATO Secret private safety clearance