SATCOM Engineer

Three quarters of this SATCOM role is off-site. The quarter that is not is in Belgium, working on the satellite links the Alliance depends on. You will provide SATCOM engineering support across UHF and SHF — link budgets, RF and antenna work, architecture and project proposals — for an international defence organisation, alongside its operational commands.

What You Will Be Doing

• Engineering support across SATCOM systems in the UHF and SHF domains
• Link budget analysis, modulation and coding choices, and satellite network topology work
• RF and antenna engineering, including propagation modelling in SATCOM bands
• Applying SATCOM cybersecurity architecture principles, including encryption and secure communications design
• Building detailed technical project proposals aligned to operational requirements and interoperability standards
• Service management work — incident and problem handling — in an operational or control-centre setting

What you will need

• A degree in telecommunications, electronics or SATCOM engineering with two years of related experience, or higher vocational training with five
• At least three years of practical SATCOM experience across UHF and SHF
• Deep knowledge of SATCOM architecture: link budgets, modulation schemes, error correction coding, network topologies
• Strong RF and antenna engineering, with propagation modelling in SATCOM frequency bands
• Familiarity with DVB-S2 and DVB-S2X, MIL-STD-188, and Software Defined Networking in SATCOM environments
• English at C1

Worth knowing before you apply

• The split is 25% on-site, 75% off-site — genuine flexibility, but the on-site quarter is not optional
• The current site near Brussels closes during 2027; performance moves to Brussels or Mons, so the role expects you to move with it

Practical detail

• Contract engagement, base period starting no later than 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, with two option years
• An active security clearance is required for this role