Deadline Date: Friday 19 December 2025
Requirement: Infrastructure DevOps Implementation Engineer
Location: The Hague, NL
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
Total Scope of the request (hours): 836
Required Start Date: 9 February 2026
End Contract Date: 31 December 2026
Required Security Clearance: NATO COSMIC TOP SECRET
Duties & Role:
The candidate will work under the direction of the NCIA IT Infrastructure Team Lead in The Hague, The Netherlands and will work with the IT Infrastructure Engineering team to specify, engineer and implement IT solutions for projects across a number of European locations.
The candidate's main responsibilities will include:
- Design, engineer and integrate server, storage, hardware and software IT infrastructure solutions.
- Implementation or enhancement of DevOps and automation solutions on physical and virtual environments using various tools and scripts.
- Design, engineer and integrate on-premises Private Cloud and Public Cloud infrastructure solutions.
- Provide technical and engineering advice to building and facility management teams on requirements and the integration of IT infrastructure for building construction/renovation and migration projects.
- Design, engineer and integrate solutions to improve IT availability, resiliency and business continuity.
- Lead a small engineering integration team responsible for performing hardware, software releases and data and system migrations.
- Following and adapting established IT architecture and IT security guidance when designing, engineering and integrating IT solutions.
- Occasional travel to locations in Europe to perform his/her duties.
Requirements
Skill, Knowledge & Experience:
- The candidate must have a currently active NATO COSMIC TOP SECRET security clearance
- Be a senior engineer or technical lead or with Five (5) years or more of proven experience in design, engineering and integration of large or complex IT infrastructure in a medium or large enterprise or systems integrator for businesses/organisations with 1000+ servers, or 10,000+ users
- Have Five (5) years or more leading engineering and integration teams responsible for performing hardware, software releases and data and system migrations.
- Have excellent experience in designing and implementing VMware cloud infrastructure including vSphere and vSAN.
- Have excellent experience implementing and working with a DevOps tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Gitlab CI/CD
- Have experience in shell scripting languages such as Bash or python
- Have excellent experience in designing and implementing resilient and highly available data storage technologies including iSCSI and FC SANs and backup and recovery solutions.
- Have good understanding of networking including LAN and WAN
- Have good experience in designing and implementation cyber security technologies including firewalls, VPN, proxies, Anti-malware and data loss protection solutions.
- Have excellent customer engagement and communication skills.
- Have good documentation skills.
- Have good language skills, both written and spoken, is essential. English and French are the two NATO languages and most of the work is conducted in the English language.
- Be self-motivated and able to work independently and in a team environment as required.
- Have a University degree in technical subject with a preference on Information Technology (IT), obtained from a nationally recognised/certified institution.
- Have achieved one (preferably 2) of the following professional certifications and held it for at least Three (3) years: vMWare VCP or better/equivalent; Cisco CCNA or better/equivalent; Red Hat RHCE or better/equivalent
- Have a Car Driving license
