Deadline Date: Friday 11 September 2026
Requirement: Network Technician (Network Automation & Data Entry)
Location: Braine-l'Alleud, BE
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
Total Scope of the request (hours): 418
Required Start Date: 12 October 2026
End Contract Date: 31 December 2026
Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET
Duties & Role:
Under the direction of NRA Section Head, the incumbent will perform duties such as the following:
- Ensure tickets are resolved in fulfilment of applicable Service Level Agreements;
- Be responsible for the data quality and integrity;
- Be responsible for registration and publishing of names, addresses and metadata required to support the operation and management of NATO networks or comply with Agency direction;
- Perform data extraction, deduplication, matching, fusion and master data generation, curation and management through its lifecycle;
- Assign and register addressing and enterprise names to infrastructure designs;
- Assist project teams in integrating names and addresses of configuration items into NRA repositories;
- Automate configuration data for NATO, partners and Federation Mission Network affiliates;
- Automate network telemetry collection and ingestion.
- Perform other duties as may be required.
Specific Working Conditions: Some work outside normal working hours may be required.
Up to 50 TDY within Belgium per year.
Requirements
Skills, Knowledge & Experience:
- The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
- Higher vocational training in a relevant discipline with 3 years post-related experience. Or a secondary educational qualification with 5 years post-related experience.
- Minimum 3 years' experience in a Network Technician, DDI or IP address management (IPAM) role;
- Familiarity with network automation or other coding languages;
- Competence with subnetting in both IPv4 and IPv6 environments;
- Practical experience in DNS, IP and routing protocols (OSPF, RIP, ISIS, BGP etc);
- Evaluating and processing change requests
- Auditing network device configurations against registered baselines
Desirable Experience and Education:
- IP address management for military networks
- Higher secondary education and advanced vocational training in a post related area, couples with at least 5 years recent experience in Telecommunications Management, Information Systems support and/or support of digital Networks
- Drafting documents/manuals for NATO users
- Knowledge of NCIA deployable CIS assets
- Experience supporting NATO operations and exercises
- Completion of RIPE NCC's LIR Training Course
- Experience using IPAM DB
- Experience with NCIA's service request processes
- Technical knowledge on wide area networks, local area networks and applicability of Firewalls;
- Awareness of MPLS and Multicast networking;
- Experience and engagement in industry trainings and events;
- Industry certification (CCNA DevNet or JNCIA etc) or demonstrable equivalent experience;
- Prior experience of working in an international environment comprising both military and civilian elements;
- Knowledge of NATO responsibilities and organization, including ACO and ACT.
