Cyberspace Warfare Development Engineer

Cyberspace Warfare Development Engineer

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The Cyberspace Warfare Development Engineer supports NATO's capability development by designing, documenting, and validating cyber capabilities in alignment with operational needs and guidance from ACT's Program Director. This role involves translating operational requirements into detailed capability specifications, including functional and non-functional requirements, developing and supporting capability architectures, and creating implementation plans that address scope, timelines, cost, and risk. The engineer will build and maintain Communities of Interest across NATO organizations, Nations, Industry, and Academia to validate products and foster collaboration.

Additional responsibilities include contributing to feasibility studies, foresight analysis, technical and operational assessments, and experimentation campaigns, as well as participating in meetings, workshops, and conferences with up to 20 days of travel annually within NATO boundaries. The position also requires performing additional tasks as directed by the COTR to ensure successful delivery of cyberspace capability development initiatives.

• Based on NATO operational needs, requirements, literature review, and high-level direction and guidance from ACT Program Director, develop, describe and document cyber capabilities, including:
  • Develop, analyze, validate, complete and enhance capability requirements, departing from operational requirements, to translate them into specifications for the capability description.
  • Develop or support the development and documentation of capability architectures.
  • Develop or support the development of capability specifications, including functional and non-functional specifications.
  • Develop or support the development of implementation plans, including analysis of scope, timelines, cost and risk.
• Build and maintain Communities of Interest (NATO organizations, Nations, Industry, Academia) dedicated to the development and implementation of cyberspace capabilities, in close coordination with the Technical Director and ACT Cyberspace Federation & Partnership SME.
• Use those Communities of Interest to develop and validate the products resulting from tasking 1, above.
• Support and contribute to other capability development activities, including feasibility studies, foresight analysis, technical and operational analysis, experimentation campaigns, etc.
• Inform, organize and participate in meetings, workshops, conferences and other events, and travel to attend those, as needed, generally within NATO's boundaries for up to 20 days per year.
• Perform additional tasks related to the contract, as required by the COTR.

• Hands-on experience in system engineering activities, including definition, implementation and engineering of complex cyber defense and/or cyberspace capabilities is essential. In general, management experience, team leading, participation and/or contribution to the above activities will not suffice to qualify.
• Master's degree in engineering, systems engineering or computer science. A bachelor's degree and 5 years of recent experience in system engineering, capability development and implementation in a military context will be considered in lieu of a master's degree.
• Proven recent (at least three within the last five years) post‑degree hands‑on experience in authoring specifications, architectures, functional analysis and designs, preferably in the area of military information and cyber systems. Experience at the level of management, overseeing, participating or supporting shall not be accounted for.
• Post‑degree education in CIS security and cyber defense disciplines, as Certified Information Systems…