[6300] CSAC Engineer

GardPass Consulting & Space; Henegouwen; Hybride; EUR 70 000 - 95 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

GardPass Consulting & Space is seeking a skilled Linux administrator with NATO security clearance capabilities to support a NATO/NCIA environment in Mons, Belgium. The role involves day-to-day application administration, incident resolution, and user support, with data management and PowerBI dashboard maintenance.

The position requires strong Linux expertise, experience with PowerBI and databases, and the ability to work across IT layers, ensuring documentation and governance are kept up to

Qualifications

• Strong Linux system administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with PowerBI dashboards and reports.
• Experience with MS SQL or PostgreSQL databases.
• Ability to work across application, middleware, OS and database layers.
• Excellent communication and analytical skills.

Responsabilités

• Operate and support application service daily including administration, troubleshooting, incident resolution and user support.
• Maintain and deploy the application with updates, patches and configuration changes.
• Manage data loading, transfers, validation and enhancements of PowerBI dashboards.
• Support the technical environment including RHEL, NGINX, JAVA, MS SQL connectivity.
• Manage user provisioning, support and onboarding during initialization period.
• Maintain operational documentation and ensure configuration knowledge remains current.
• Provide service reporting and governance including KPI/SLA reporting and risk management.
• Coordinate and gather information within NCIA and stakeholders to support activities.
• Establish and maintain operating procedures and identify opportunities for improvement.

Description du poste

• RHEL 9.x Certified Admin (desirable)

Start date

Negotiable

Clearance

NATO Secret/EU Secret

Location

Mons, Belgium

Duties & Role

• Operate and support the application service on a day‑to‑day basis, including administration, troubleshooting, incident resolution and user support.
• Maintain and deploy the application, including updates, patches, installations, configuration changes and controlled uninstallation when required.
• Manage data and reporting, including data loading and transfers, data validation, and maintenance and enhancements of PowerBI dashboards.
• Support the technical environment and its components including RHEL, NGINX, JAVA, MSQL connectivity.
• Manage the user community. Activities may include: user provisioning, user support, guidance and troubleshooting, particularly during the initialization and user on‑boarding period.
• Maintain operational documentation and ensure the application configuration, procedures and technical knowledge remain current.
• Provide service reporting and governance, including KPI/SLA reporting, risk and issue management and participation in regular service reviews.
• Execute coordination and information gathering activities within NCSC, NCIA, and with stakeholders, in support of the above activities.
• Establish and maintain operating procedures, technical documentation and identify opportunities for improvement and service efficiency.

Specific Working Conditions

The contractor may be permitted to perform work remotely for up to a maximum of twenty percent (20%) of their total working time, subject to prior approval by their Line Manager. Such arrangements must not result in any adverse impact on operational service delivery, project execution, or organizational performance.

The contractor may work from their home in the duty location subject to the NCIA teleworking policy and in coordination with their respective Service Area Owner (SAO).

The contractor may be required to travel to NCIA locations in Brussels or in The Hague 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. 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 5 years extensive and progressive expertise in duties related to those in this Statement of Work.
• At least 3 years practical experience in cyber security or related field, such as developing and maintaining cyber security services, service initialization and maintenance in the area of Cyber security, or complex and demanding technical environments;
• Experience providing application administration and production support and transition into steady‑state service operations;
• Strong experience working with Linux and Enterprise Linux environments and hands‑on skills managing production servers, services, processes, networking, storage, permissions and system logs.
• Experience with PowerBI, including development and maintenance of dashboards and reports;
• Experience with DB management, e.g. MS SQL or PostgreSQL.
• Experience with data loading, migration and data transfer processes and automation;
• Experience with application deployment, updates, patching and release management;
• Experience working with IT service management processes, SLAs, incident management and change management;
• Experience identifying and implementing service improvements and automation.
• Strong application troubleshooting and problem‑solving skills across application, middleware, operating system and database layers.
• Strong Linux system administration and troubleshooting technical expertise, e.g. Relevant RHEL 9.x Administration experience.
• Troubleshooting and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to work across technical solutions and teams.
• Very good communication and analytical skills.
• Language proficiency in English: meet or exceed the NATO STANAG 6001 Level 3 "Professional Proficiency".
• Relevant certifications in Linux Administration.
• RHEL 9.x Certified Admin (desirable)

Desirable Experience

• Experience in working for or supporting a military or governmental organization.
• Experience in taking an application through initialization and transition into a stead-service;
• Experience in establishing service processes where those are not yet formalized.
• Experience with ITIL/ service‑management practices and formal change‑management processes.