Senior Microsoft Engineer

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 ID – C005306

Role Duties and Responsibilities

Under the direction of the DICE Team Lead the contractor shall:

• Design, implement, configure, operate, maintain and troubleshoot complex Microsoft enterprise infrastructure and associated services in secure enterprise environments.
• Provide senior-level technical expertise for Microsoft Windows Server platforms and associated infrastructure services throughout their complete lifecycle, including architecture, deployment, configuration, hardening, patching, upgrade, migration, monitoring and decommissioning.
• Design, administer and troubleshoot Microsoft Active Directory environments, including domains, forests, trusts, Group Policy, authentication services, DNS integration and associated identity infrastructure.
• Provide subject matter expertise in Identity and Access Management (IAM), authentication, authorization and federation technologies, including Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), Microsoft Entra ID and related Microsoft identity technologies but also open source technologies such as Keykloak.
• Design, implement, maintain and troubleshoot Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), certificates and certificate-dependent services used within Microsoft enterprise environments, including certificate lifecycle management, trust relationships and integration with applications and authentication services.
• Design, deploy, configure, operate and maintain on-premise Microsoft SharePoint SE environments & related informationmanagement capabilities including site architecture, permissions, metadata, taxonomies, search, content management, collaborative services and integration with enterprise applications.
• Design and maintain secure integrations between Microsoft platforms and other enterprise services and applications, including, where applicable, Atlassian Data Center Technology Stack (Jira, Confluence), Power BI, Splunk, SQL Server and other data or collaboration platforms
• Provide engineering support for Microsoft Azure DevOps cloud services architecture in support of maintaining reference dev environment (Nato Software Factory) for DICE team. Support cloud and DevOps practices using Microsoft Azure and Azure DevOps or equivalent enterprise DevOps technologies, including source control,