ISR Systems Administrator

h3NATO
- North Atlantic Treaty Organisation /h3 pJob Description
- Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Systems Administrator ) /p pIntelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Systems Administrator
- /p h3Primary Location /h3 h3NATO Body /h3 pBattlefield Information Collection and Exploitation System (BICES) /p h3Schedule /h3 pFull-time /p h3Application Deadline /h3 p08-Nov-2026, 10:59:00 PM /p h3Salary (Pay Basis) /h3 pGrade NATO Grade G12 /p pDescription /p pDescriptiobr n=""/n :
- SUBJECT TO THE BGX BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND FUNDING APPROVAL
- /p h3SUMMARY /h3 pThe 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. /p pThe 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. /p pUnder 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. /p pThe 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
. /p pOperational travel may be required in accordance with the BG Deployment Policy and national requirements. /p h3QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE /h3 h3Essential /h3 ul lipossess a technical degree or equivalent qualification in information systems management, library science, computer science, information science or a related discipline; /li lihave at least 6 years of professional experience as a Systems Administrator with background in both Microsoft Windows and Linux platforms; /li lihave proven experience with the installation, support, configuration and troubleshooting of IT services; /li libe able to understand, assess and solve technical issues in a troubleshooting environment under pressure and with time constraints; /li lihave 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; /li lihave a demonstrated experience with VMware Horizon virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments, including the administration, maintenance and troubleshooting of Horizon-based virtual desktop services; /li lihave Microsoft Certifications in Server 2019 and Windows 10 (or above) and virtualization (e.g. VMware); /li lihave proven experience with storage, access, problem reporting and change control of Configuration Items (Cls); /li libe willing to work outside of normal office

working hours
; /li lipossess level V (Advanced) of the English language. /li /ul h3Desirable /h3 ul lirecent experience providing ISR technical services support to military and coalition Operations; /li lihave proven experience with the installation, support, configuration and troubleshooting of ISR-related services, such as the Coalition Shared Dataserver (CSD); /li liexperience with ISR service interfaces between STANAG 4559 compliant systems and non-STANAG 4559 compliant ISR systems; /li liexperience with Information Exchange Gateway solutions supporting ISR service interfaces between different classification level networks; /li liexperience with status accounting and auditing, in line with recognized standards, such as ISO 9000, 9001 and 9004 throughout the ClS lifecycle; /li