C004280 Engineer (IdM/PKI) (NS) - THU 26 Jun

Deadline Date: Thursday 26 June 2025

Requirement: Engineer (IdM/PKI)

Location: Mons, BE

Full Time On-Site: Yes

Time On-Site: 100%

Total Scope of the request (hours): 688

Required Start Date: 4 August 2025

End Contract Date: 31 December 2025

Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET

Duties and Role:  

• Responsible for developing automatic tools and processes.
• Responsible for developing containerized technologies.
• Manage and control of the lifecycle of end users and devices certificates for all NPKI CA's.
• Manage Card Management System.
• Responsible for PKI sub components connected to the NPKI CA especially in context of potential new services testing and integration.
• Responsible for the creation of NPKI related guidance and procedures (SOP).
• Responsible for the delivery of 2nd and 3rd level technical support of CIS services to the NPKI customers.
• Responsible for the NCIA ITSM ticketing system.
• Responsible for certificate creation and Smart Cards enrolment.
• Responsible for supporting all NATO exercises and missions.
• Supervises the day-to-day operations / management / backup / restore of the PKI systems.
• Responsible for NPKI system documentation, hardware inventory, software configuration and inventory and regular systems and applications patching.
• Be flexible to work outside normal office hours in response to crises, operational requirements.
• Performs other duties as may be required.

Requirements

Skill, Knowledge & Experience:

• The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
• A university degree in a relevant discipline and 3 years of specific experience
• Extensive knowledge of modern communication and Internet Protocol (IP) based networking technologies and systems including security aspects.
• 3 years extensive experience with PKI System development, design, management.
• Practical experience in PKI Architecture design.
• Extensive knowledge in Containerization technologies.
• Extensive knowledge of Kubernetes Orchestrator Service Management.
• Practical experience in automation processes tools (Ansible).
• Extensive knowledge of Information security and Cryptography (symmetric and asymmetric encryption, public key infrastructure (PKI) encryption, public key encryption, hash functions, digital signatures, digital certificates).
• Knowledge of the principles of computer and communications security, networking, and vulnerabilities of modern operating systems and applications.
• Experience with SQL database administration.
• Practical experience in scripting (Python, Powershell).

• Practical experience in SSL, TLS, and OpenSSL.

Desirable Experience:

• Linux RHEL system administration
• Experience in development and implementation of computer security policies.
• Knowledge of post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms.
• Experience with Post-Quantum PKI.