Senior Cyber Security Specialist

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 – C005471

Role Duties and Responsibilities

Delivery planning and coordination

Documenting planned deliverables / changes (System Design Specifications, Change requests, Services requests, A2SL processes).

Facilitating approval of planned changes throughout NCIA and NCSC Change management process, project team and internal NCSC meetings.

Coordinating NCSC other than NCSC business lines to deliver prerequisites required for cyber security physical and virtual installations.

Activities coordination with project managers, system engineers, network engineers, security architects and operational stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of cyber security capabilities.

Delivery

Installation, configuration and testing of network tapping and aggregation equipment.

Installation, configuration and testing of vulnerability assessment tools, including Tenable.SC and Nessus.

Installation, configuration and testing of computer forensic tools, including Fidelis.

Installation, configuration and testing of monitoring, detection and incident response tools, including Splunk.

Installation, configuration and testing of virtualisation and networking technologies.

Implementation and validation of security settings across network equipment (Cisco, Juniper) and operating system (Linux and Microsoft) environments.

Investigation of technology errors, network faults, performance issues, including the development and implementation of proposed improvements.

Support to the integration of cyber security tools into existing and future NATO CIS environments.

Ensuring that implemented solutions comply with applicable NATO security policies, operational requirements and agreed technical standards.

Post-implementation, transition to operations and support activities

Documenting as-is cyber installations (in a form of System Implementation Specifications)

Conducting testing, validation and acceptance activities for deployed cyber security capabilities.

Support to handover to operations, including knowledge transfer, training support and preparation of operational documentation.

Development of broad range of technical documentation, including installation guides, configuration ba