Spektrum have a wide range of exciting opportunities in several global locations. We are always looking to add great new talent to our team and look forward to hearing from you.
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.
Who we are supporting
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 program
Assistance and Advisory Service (AAS)
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.
Role Duties and Responsibilities
Under the overall direction of the Service Owner and Service Delivery Manager, the incumbent will perform duties such as the following:
- Being responsible for the assigned business applications and services.
- Providing 2nd and 3rd line support to the assigned business applications, by responding to service requests, investigating and resolving incidents and problems, communicating solutions or advice to customers and users on changes and improvements based on best business practices.
- Contributing to the gathering, analysis, setup, design and documentation of new requirements and change requests.
- Developing and reviewing documentation such as requirements definitions, functional and technical design documents, systems specifications or other deliverables.
- Providing time estimates for the development and implementation of new requirements.
- Ensures full lifecycle tests of requests for change before they are presented to the user for user acceptance testing.
- Active contribution to relevant projects or service operation across Service Lines where integration is required.
- Participating/attending job-related conferences and trainings in order to keep the knowledge and expertise up-to-date.
- Providing briefings and presentations.
- Performing other duties as may be required.
Essential Skills, Experience and Certifications
The candidate must have a minimum of 15 years of recent practical experience as an Oracle E-Business Suite DBA. This experience must include a sustained period of performance of at least 60 months across the two most recent assignments, demonstrating hands-on responsibility for complex Oracle E-Business Suite environments.
The candidate must have performed duties including, but not limited to, installing, upgrading, patching, troubleshooting, tuning, and supporting Oracle E Business Suite software and the associated Oracle Technology Stack in multi-tier, multi-node, and multi-platform environments. These environments may include database servers, application servers, web servers, concurrent processing servers, reports servers, forms servers, administration servers, and Discoverer servers.
Working Location
- Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium
Working Policy
- On-Site 100%
Travel
- Some travel to other NATO sites may be required
Security Clearance
- Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance
We never know what new opportunities might be just over the horizon. If this opportunity isn't for you, please feel free to send us your resume anyway and be the first to know if something suitable for your skills and experience comes up.
Skills Required
- Minimum 15 years recent practical experience as an Oracle E-Business Suite DBA
- Sustained period of performance of at least 60 months across the two most recent assignments
- Hands-on responsibility for installing, upgrading, patching, troubleshooting, tuning, and supporting Oracle E-Business Suite
- Experience supporting associated Oracle Technology Stack in multi-tier, multi-node, multi-platform environments
- Provide 2nd and 3rd line support, incident/problem resolution, and user communications
- Perform full lifecycle testing of requests for change prior to user acceptance testing
- Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance
- Ability to work on-site 100% in Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium
What We Do
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