ISR Systems Administrator

NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

Job Description - Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Systems Administrator (261608)

Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Systems Administrator - 261608

Primary Location

NATO Body

Battlefield Information Collection and Exploitation System (BICES)

Schedule

Full-time

Application Deadline

08-Nov-2026, 10:59:00 PM

Salary (Pay Basis)

Grade NATO Grade G12

Description

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SUMMARY

The BICES Group Executive (BGX), a NATO entity, is the executive body of the BICES Group (BG). The BG exists to enable the sharing and exchange of intelligence and information between and amongst NATO nations, with NATO, and with other non-NATO nations and organisations. Under the leadership of the Director, BGX is composed of the Intelligence and Enterprise Services (IES) Division, the Programme, Engineering and Maintenance (PEM) Division, the Operations and Security Services (OSS) Division, and the Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Cell.

The Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Cell acts as the executive arm of the BICES ISR community. It coordinates the development of an integrated multinational federated ISR Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination capability and enables coherent national, NATO and multinational ISR support to operations by ensuring interoperability, technical and procedural alignment, information flow coherence and collective readiness. The Cell maintains ISR documentation, governance artefacts, interoperability frameworks, reference resources and ISR information required to support participating nations and NATO entities in ISR integration and capability development. It further supports ISR exercises, trials, multinational readiness activities and contributes to long-term ISR evolution.

Under the supervision of the Head, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Cell, and in coordination with the ISR Lead Architect/Engineer, the incumbent administers and provides technical support for ISR services deployed on BICES. As an authorised BGX System Administrator, the incumbent maintains a functional dependency with the BGX Operational Authority and applies approved security and operational requirements when administering ISR systems within the BGX Element and Central Node.

The work is performed in a secure facility where slightly undesirable conditions may apply and involves a light risk of injury. The incumbent participates in the provision of continuous technical support and may be required to undertake on-call and overtime duties outside regular working hours.

Operational travel may be required in accordance with the BG Deployment Policy and national requirements.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Essential

• possess a technical degree or equivalent qualification in information systems management, library science, computer science, information science or a related discipline;
• have at least 6 years of professional experience as a Systems Administrator with background in both Microsoft Windows and Linux platforms;
• have proven experience with the installation, support, configuration and troubleshooting of IT services;
• be able to understand, assess and solve technical issues in a troubleshooting environment under pressure and with time constraints;
• have a demonstrated experience as system administrator in Microsoft/LINUX (MS WS SVR 2016 or above, RHEL 7.5 or above), HyperV and VMware environment, to include experience with maintaining Oracle and SQL Databases;
• have a demonstrated experience with VMware Horizon virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments, including the administration, maintenance and troubleshooting of Horizon-based virtual desktop services;
• have Microsoft Certifications in Server 2019 and Windows 10 (or above) and virtualization (e.g. VMware);
• have proven experience with storage, access, problem reporting and change control of Configuration Items (Cls);
• be willing to work outside of normal office working hours;
• possess level V (Advanced) of the English language.

Desirable

• recent experience providing ISR technical services support to military and coalition Operations;
• have proven experience with the installation, support, configuration and troubleshooting of ISR-related services, such as the Coalition Shared Dataserver (CSD);
• experience with ISR service interfaces between STANAG 4559 compliant systems and non-STANAG 4559 compliant ISR systems;
• experience with Information Exchange Gateway solutions supporting ISR service interfaces between different classification level networks;
• experience with s