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Capacity Engineer (IaaS)

Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium

Spektrum have a wide range of exciting opportunities in several global locations.

We are always looking to add great new talent to our team and look forward to hearing from you.

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 Duties and Responsibilities

  • Oversee the demand for Data Center capacity (both physical and virtual)
  • Collaborate with the customers in order to develop best solutions to their capacity requests
  • Ensure the future demand for capacity is met by proposing Data Center efficiencies
  • Monitor the usage of Data Center power, cooling and space
  • Monitor the usage of virtual resources (vCPU/RAM/Disk)
  • Create and maintain the forecast for capacity demand (identify trends, prepare recommendations)
  • Work independently and in teams with various stakeholders

Essential Skills and Experience

  • Understanding and experience of data centre fundamentals, specifically data center power, cooling, rack design and layout.
  • Understanding and experience of Data Center virtualization techniques.
  • Experience working with teams of engineers, and leading them to deliver results.
  • Leading capacity review and allocation meetings.
  • Stakeholder management.
  • Prioritisation of client requests based on business needs.
  • Experience working with BMC tools.
  • Ability to analyse consumed and remaining virtual/physical capacity, provide forecast over time and make recommendations based on findings.
  • Use of BI tools to present trend analysis.
  • ITIL certification.
  • PRINCE2 certification.
  • Good understanding of NCIA organizational structure and locations.

Working Location

  • Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium

Working Policy

  • On-Site

Travel

  • Up to 100 TDY within Belgium per year

Security Clearance

  • Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance

We never know what new opportunities might be just over the horizon. If this opportunity isn't for you please feel free to send us your resume anyway and be the first to know if something suitable for your skills and experience comes up. 

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