Deadline Date: Thursday 4 September 2025Requirement: Principal Technician (DCIS)Location: Mons, BEFull Time On-Site: YesTime On-Site: 100%Total Scope of the request (hours): 500Required Start Date: 10 October 2025End Contract Date: 31 December 2025Required Security Clearance: NATO COSMIC TOP SECRETDuties & Role:Information security
Provides guidance on the application and operation of elementary physical, procedural and technical security controls.
Explains the purpose of security controls and performs security risk and business impact analysis for medium complexity information systems.
Identifies risks that arise from potential technical solution architectures.
Designs alternate solutions or countermeasures and ensures they mitigate identified risks.
Investigates suspected attacks and supports security incident management.
Systems design
Designs system components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology.
Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs.
Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders and to handle functional and non-functional requirements.
Models, simulates or prototypes the behaviour of proposed system components to enable approval by stakeholders.
Produces detailed design specifications to form the basis for the construction of systems.
Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications.
Systems integration and build
Provides technical expertise to enable the configuration of system components and equipment for systems testing.
Collaborates with technical teams to develop and agree system integration plans and report on progress.
Defines complex/new integration builds.
Ensures that environments are correctly configured.
Designs, performs and reports results of tests of the integration build.
Identifies and documents system integration components for recording in the configuration management system.
Recommends and implements improvements to processes and tools.
IT infrastructure
Provisions/installs, configures and maintains infrastructure services and components.
Monitors, measures and reports on infrastructure load, performance and security events.
Identifies operational issues and contributes to their resolution.
Carries out agreed operational procedures, including backup/restore, using supplied infrastructure tools and scripts.
Carries out agreed system software maintenance tasks.
Automates routine system administration tasks to specifications using standard tools and basic scripting.
System software
Monitors operational systems for resource usage and failure rates, to inform and facilitate system software tuning.
Applies system software parameters to maximise throughput and efficiency.
Installs and tests new versions of system software.
Contributes to preparation of software implementation procedures with fall back contingency plans.
Storage management
Prepares and maintains operational procedures for storage management.
Monitors capacity, performance, availability and other operational metrics.
Takes appropriate action to ensure corrective and proactive maintenance of storage and backup systems to protect and secure business information.
Creates reports and proposals for improvement.
Contributes to the planning and implementation of new installations and scheduled maintenance and changes of existing systems.
Additional duties for this post:
Perform other duties as may be required
Deputise for higher grade staff, if required
RequirementsSkill, Knowledge & Experience:
The candidate must have a currently active NATO COSMIC TOP SECRET security clearance
A minimum requirement of a Bachelor's degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline and 2 years post-related experience.
Or exceptionally, the lack of a university degree may be compensated by the demonstration of a candidate's particular abilities or experience that is/are of interest to NCI Agency, that is, at least 6 years extensive and progressive expertise in duties related to the function of the post.
At least 2 years practical experience in the designing, implementing, and managing the underlying technology, software and hardware components that ensure the smooth functioning of servers, storage systems, data centers, and cloud services.
Practical experience troubleshooting infrastructure related issues, perform regular maintenance
Centralized storage systems based on FC, iSCSI, SAS or Hyper converged technology like vSAN
Recent Virtualization Technologies based on VMWare ESXi and Virtual Centre
Recent Microsoft Windows Server or Redhat Linux Operating Systems
Expert Directory, Identity and Access Management consisting of multiple interconnected and federated Active Directory Domains and Forests
