Deadline Date: Wednesday 9 September 2026
Requirement: ACPV Senior Data Engineer
Location: Braine-l'Alleud, BE
Full Time On-Site: Yes (See Specific Working Conditions below)
Time On-Site: 100%
Total Scope of the request (hours): 395
Required Start Date: 5 October 2026
End Contract Date: 31 December 2026
Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET
Duties & Role:
Under the direction of the CIMAT Lead, the contractor shall execute:
- Analysis of data sources related to assets, configurations, and vulnerabilities.
- Validation of onboarded data sources.
- Leading technical discussions on data sources, correlation, SOP.
- Preparation and presentation of technical findings, provision of recommendations, and documentation of results.
- Support data source discovery, data source onboarding, and data lifecycle processes in the context of ACPV.
- Review ACPV service for depth, compliance, and vulnerability exposure.
- Representation of NCIA to stakeholders, delivering presentations and recommendations.
- Documentation of ACPV processes.
- Integrate the ACPV Data with other Data consumption point within the NCSC.
Specific Working Conditions: The contractor may be permitted to perform work remotely, from a different NATO nation than the duty location, for up to a maximum of twenty percent (20%) of their total working time, subject to prior approval by their NCIA designated Resource Manager.
The contractor may work from their home in the duty location subject to the NCIA teleworking policy and in coordination with their NCIA designated Resource Manager.
The contractor may be required to travel to other NCIA locations for in-person or department meetings. In such cases the contractor will be reimbursed for travel costs according to NATO regulations for traveling on NATO duty. Each travel will be a maximum of 2 days lengths and happening no more than twice per month. Contractors traveling for work purposes shall initiate travel requests from their designated duty station only.
Requirements
Skills, Knowledge & Experience:
- The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
- A minimum requirement of a Bachelor's degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline and 3 years post-related experience;
- Or exceptionally, the lack of a university degree may be compensated by the demonstration of a candidate's particular abilities or experience that is/are of interest to NCIA, that is, at least 10 years extensive and progressive expertise in duties related to those in this Statement of Work.
- At least 3 years experience in support of a Cyber Security environment.
- At least 2 years' experience with data visualisation tools (e.g. Power BI, Tableau, Grafana) and the Ability to analyse and interpret structured and unstructured data.
- Experience with enterprise application integration and data synchronization.
- Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or Microsoft SQL Server.
- Experience with LDAP / Active Directory integration.
- Experience with REST API development and integration
- Knowledge of cybersecurity fundamentals, risk analysis, threat modelling and secure data handling, and Cyber Security tools e.g. vulnerability assessment, forensic analysis, log aggregation and correlation.
- Data sensitivity awareness. Understanding of handling classified or mission-critical information.
- Knowledge of multi-vendor switching, routing and security technology with proven technical experience with in depth understanding of communication protocols (mainly TCP/IP stack and technology behind of each element in the stack), network and security technologies.
- Very good communication and analytical skills.
- Language proficiency in English: meet or exceed the NATO STANAG 6001 Level 3 "Professional Proficiency".
- Ability to work on their own and as part of a team.
- Knowledge/understanding of NATO responsibilities and organisation
Desirable Experience:
- Experience in working for or supporting a military or governmental organization.
- Knowledge of NATO Accreditation process and document set required for Accreditation and potential presentation to NSAB.
- Knowledge of NATO Communication and Information Systems Infrastructure
- Prior experience with Atlassian Jira APIs and workflow integrations is a strong asset.
- Prior experience with Splunk Enterprise is a strong asset.
