[6463] Senior Cyber Security Engineer

GardPass Consulting & Space; Henegouwen; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

GardPass Consulting & Space in Mons, Belgium, seeks an experienced cybersecurity architect with NATO SECRET clearance. You will contribute to developing secure solution architectures across business, infrastructure and functional domains.

You will lead architectural design efforts, assess trade-offs, document decisions, and ensure compliance with security standards while coordinating with NCIA/NCSC and stakeholders. Strong communication and leadership are essential.

Qualifications

• Active NATO SECRET clearance is required.
• Minimum 3 years post-degree experience in related field.
• 5+ years in cybersecurity services or related delivery.
• Experience identifying vulnerabilities and threats.
• Experience drafting technical requirements and system diagrams.

Responsibilities

• Develop solution architectures across business, infra and functional areas.
• Evaluate alternative architectures for cost, performance and scalability.
• Document significant architectural decisions.
• Produce cloud/on-premises component specifications for design.
• Support projects with technical plans and design principles.
• Ensure solutions meet security and enterprise standards.
• Lead cybersecurity guidance in engineering projects.
• Coordinate activities between NCIA and NCSC.

Skills

NATO SECRET clearance

Cybersecurity expertise

Security risk assessment

Stakeholder management

English proficiency

ArchiMate modelling

Education

Bachelor's degree in related discipline

Tools

ArchiMate modelling language

Cloud/security architectures

Job description

Start date: Negotiable

Clearance Required: NATO Secret

Location: Mons, Belgium

Requirements

• Currently active NATO SECRET security clearance.
• Bachelor's degree from a nationally recognised or certified university in a related discipline, with at least 3 years of post-related experience.
• Alternatively, candidates without a university degree may qualify through at least 10 years of extensive and progressive experience in duties relevant to the Statement of Work, demonstrating particular abilities of interest to NCIA.
• At least 3 years of practical experience developing or delivering cybersecurity services.
• Extensive practical experience identifying vulnerabilities and potential security threats.
• Experience developing technical requirements, system diagrams and other engineering products supporting cybersecurity acquisition and procurement.
• Proven ability to deliver cybersecurity capabilities for industry, government or military organisations.
• Up-to-date knowledge and experience in designing and implementing cybersecurity capabilities and supporting infrastructure in operational environments.
• Up-to-date knowledge and experience of cryptographic technologies, including key management.
• Up-to-date knowledge and experience of identity and access management.
• Up-to-date knowledge and experience of risk management.
• Knowledge of network monitoring and detection technologies.
• Knowledge of designing cybersecurity capabilities on cloud infrastructure.
• Ability to apply architecture methodologies to represent complex systems of systems through architectural models at varying levels of detail.
• Proven ability to manage stakeholders, understand their needs and propose constructive solutions.
• Proactive approach to building and maintaining stakeholder trust.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including briefing skills.
• Experience leading small teams.
• Very good communication and analytical skills.
• English proficiency meeting or exceeding NATO STANAG 6001 Level 3 (Professional Proficiency).
• Proficiency in the ArchiMate modelling language.
• Relevant cybersecurity certifications, such as CISM, CISSP or GIAC.
• Experience working for or supporting a military or governmental organisation.

Desirable Experience

• Experience working for or supporting a military or governmental organisation.

Duties and Role

• Contribute to the development of solution architectures across specific business, infrastructure and functional areas.
• Identify and evaluate alternative architectures, assessing trade-offs involving cost, performance and scalability.
• Determine and document architecturally significant decisions.
• Produce specifications for cloud-based and on-premises components, tiers and interfaces for translation into detailed designs.
• Support projects and change initiatives by preparing technical plans and applying design principles.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise and solution architecture standards, including security requirements.
• Provide guidance on applying and operating physical, procedural and technical security controls.
• Explain security controls and conduct security risk and business impact analyses for medium-complexity information systems.
• Identify risks arising from proposed technical solution architectures and design alternative solutions or countermeasures to mitigate them.
• Investigate suspected attacks and support security incident management.
• Define and manage scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation for medium-sized and moderately complex initiatives.
• Contribute to selecting requirements approaches, facilitate stakeholder input and support effective prioritisation.
• Establish requirements baselines, obtain formal agreement and maintain traceability to source requirements.
• Select appropriate techniques and tools to develop user stories and elicit user experience requirements in complex situations.
• Identify design goals and stakeholder groups for systems, products, services and devices.
• Resolve conflicts between differing user requirements and define measurable usability and accessibility criteria.
• Provide cybersecurity technical expertise and leadership to engineering projects, including preparing statements of work, execution planning and procuring cybersecurity items.
• Coordinate cybersecurity delivery activities between assigned hands‑on engineers within NCIA and NCSC, following the multi‑layer change management framework.
• Identify and resolve problems, manage internal and external quality control, and contribute to knowledge management.
• Document project results, including post‑implementation system specifications, instructions and updates to cybersecurity service documentation.
• Coordinate handover to NCSC cybersecurity services for operations and calculate operational and maintenance costs.
• Provide technical input to acquisition projects, including writing, reviewing and coordinating cybersecurity requirements, statements of work, system design specifications, high‑and low‑level design blueprints and bills of materials.
• Support procurement activities by responding to questions and evaluating bids.
• Develop and present cybersecurity scientific, engineering, technical and marketing information for official meetings.
• Represent NCIA/NCSC in working groups and forums.
• Carry out tasks assigned by the Branch, NCSC Service Delivery Managers and Resource Manager.

Specific Working Conditions

• Remote workers must provide their own IT equipment for processing public and unclassified information, including the ability to participate in video meetings using Microsoft collaboration tools.
• Remote working from another NATO country may be permitted for up to 20% of total working time, subject to prior approval from the Resource Manager and Section Head of D&I.
• Working from home within the duty location is subject to NCIA's teleworking policy and coordination with the Section Head of D&I.
• Travel to NCIA locations in Belgium, the Netherlands or other NATO countries may be required for meetings.
• Approved work‑related travel expenses will be reimbursed under NATO regulations.
• Travel requests must be initiated from the contractor's designated duty station.