Systems Administrator

Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO, UN, EU, and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services, specialised aerospace and defence sales, delivery, and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.

The NATO Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) is responsible for providing secure and effective communications and information technology (IT) services to NATO's member countries and its partners. The agency was established in 2012 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

The NCIA provides a wide range of services, including:

• Cyber Security:
  The NCIA provides advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect NATO's communication networks and information systems against cyber threats.
• Command and Control Systems:
  The NCIA develops and maintains the systems used by NATO's military commanders to plan and execute operations.
• Satellite Communications:
  The NCIA provides satellite communications services to enable secure and reliable communications between NATO forces.
• Electronic Warfare:
  The NCIA provides electronic warfare services to support NATO's mission to detect, deny, and defeat threats to its communication networks.
• Information Management:
  The NCIA manages NATO's information technology infrastructure, including its databases, applications, and servers.

Overall, the NCIA plays a critical role in ensuring the security and effectiveness of NATO's communication and information technology capabilities.

The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) is NATO’s principal C3 capability deliverer and CIS service provider. It provides, maintains and defends the NATO enterprise-wide information technology infrastructure to enable Allies to consult together under Article IV, and, when required, stand together in the face of attack under Article V.

To provide these critical services, in the modern evolving dynamic environment the NCI Agency needs to build and maintain high performance-engaged workforce. The NCI Agency workforce strategically consists of three major categorise's: NATO International Civilians (NIC)'s, Military (Mil), and Interim Workforce Consultants (IWC)'s. The IWCs are a critical part of the overall NCI Agency workforce and make up approximately 15 percent of the total workforce.

The Systems Administrator provides technical management of the servers, virtual infrastructure, core directory and messaging services and functional-service databases in the area of responsibility, keeping them stable, secure and supportable within the approved baseline and change process.

• Administer all local and remote servers in the area of responsibility, including Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, Exchange and anti-malware services.
• Manage and operate the virtual infrastructure (VMware server and desktop virtualisation), SAN storage and SAN switches; carry out VM lifecycle actions.
• Plan and run mass deployment, monitoring and troubleshooting of OS and application patches on servers and workstations using SCCM/MECM for Windows and Linux systems.
• Carry out database administration (MS SQL Server, Oracle) for functional / COI services and monitor and troubleshoot third-party application deployments.
• Administer SharePoint and support the integration of new and existing applications.
• Implement and manage backup and recovery solutions and verify restored services.
• Monitor, measure and report infrastructure load, performance and security events; resolve alerts in server rooms, storage and servers.
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