Network Engineer — Deployable Mission Communications for NATO with security clearance

Wlgroup; Brunssum; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Wlgroup in Brunssum, Netherlands, seeks an experienced network engineer to design, configure and deploy enterprise networks for deployable communications kits used in NATO missions. You will drive builds from testing through deployment and provide ongoing support for live operational networks.

The role requires documentation expertise and professional English, with on-site work in Brunssum and occasional travel to other European locations.

Qualifications

• Degree in computing, engineering or telecommunications or 5+ years strong practical experience.
• Five+ years progressive network engineering design, implementation and support.
• Experience delivering in operational environments, not only lab.
• Proven ability to write clear implementation procedures and documentation.
• Professional English, spoken and written.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure and integrate enterprise network infrastructure for deployable communications kits.
• Take builds through test, validation and deployment, including support to exercises.
• Support production deployments and the operational network once live.
• Produce implementation procedures, test plans and technical documentation.
• Maintain configuration management records for traceability.
• Collaborate with platform, security and service management teams and report on performance.

Skills

Network engineering

Documentation

English proficiency

On-site work

Education

Degree in computing/engineering/telecommunications

Job description

This is enterprise network engineering with a difference: the network you design gets packed into transit cases and stood up somewhere it has never been before. The role supports the deployable communications capability behind a NATO mission — designing it, integrating it, testing it, and being there when it is switched on for real.

It suits an engineer who is as comfortable writing the implementation procedure as running the configuration, and who would rather find the problem during the test plan than during the exercise.

What you would be doing

• Design, configure and integrate enterprise network infrastructure for deployable communications kits.
• Take builds through test, validation and deployment, including support to exercises and implementation projects.
• Support production deployments and the operational network once it is live, at engineering level.
• Produce implementation procedures, test plans, standard operating procedures and technical documentation.
• Maintain configuration management records so the estate is actually knowable.
• Work alongside the platform, security and service management teams, and report monthly on performance.

What you would bring

• A degree in a computing, engineering or telecommunications discipline with at least two years of relevant experience — or five years of strong practical experience in its place.
• Five years or more of progressive network engineering: design, implementation, configuration, integration, deployment and support.
• Experience delivering inside operational or project environments, not only in a lab.
• A track record of writing documentation that other engineers can follow.
• Professional English, spoken and written.

The work is on site in Brunssum, in normal office hours, with occasional planned night work for change windows and roughly one trip a month to other European locations.