Senior Cybersecurity Architect – NATO Projects (Mons)

NextLink Group; Henegouwen; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

NextLink Group is seeking a Senior Cyber Security Engineer to design and deliver secure cybersecurity architectures for NATO infrastructure. You will lead architecture decisions, define security requirements and coordinate implementation across NCIA/NCSC projects.

The role demands deep expertise in risk management, cryptography, IAM and secure infrastructure, with experience in government or military environments. A NATO security clearance and strong communication are essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of practical experience delivering cybersecurity services.
• Experience identifying vulnerabilities and security threats in complex environments.
• Proven ability to develop technical requirements, system diagrams and engineering documentation for cybersecurity projects.
• Experience delivering cybersecurity capabilities in industry, government or military contexts.
• Knowledge of cryptographic technologies and key management.
• Strong IAM understanding and secure infrastructure design experience.
• Ability to model complex systems using architecture methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to secure solution architectures across business, infrastructure and domains.
• Evaluate architectures for cost, performance, scalability and security.
• Document architecturally significant decisions and create technical specs for cloud and on‑prem components.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise security standards and NATO requirements.
• Apply ArchiMate modeling to represent complex systems and system‑of‑systems environments.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to NCIA/NCSC engineering teams.

Skills

Cybersecurity architecture

Risk management

Cryptographic technologies

Identity and access management

Secure infrastructure design

English communication

Stakeholder coordination

NATO environments

Tools

ArchiMate

Job description

NextLink Group is seeking a Senior Cyber Security Engineer to design and deliver secure cybersecurity architectures for NATO infrastructure. You will lead architecture decisions, define security requirements and coordinate implementation across NCIA/NCSC projects.

The role demands deep expertise in risk management, cryptography, IAM and secure infrastructure, with experience in government or military environments. A NATO security clearance and strong communication are essential.