Senior .NET Software Engineer

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 ID – C004225

Role Background

Assurance Tools Section as part of the Assurance Solutions Branch who are responsible for the design, development and support of tools to support the Assurance and verification and validation of Communication Information Systems (CIS) readiness of NATO Command Structure and interoperability with and between assigned National and Multinational forces that participate in NATO-led missions and exercises.

Role Duties And Responsibilities

• In collaboration with the current lead developer, the solution architect and product owners: develop technical specifications and solution architectures
• Write clean, modular, secure and testable code
• Review and refactor existing code towards a common agreed solution architecture
• Adapt to agreed team software engineering practices
• Coach and support junior developers
• Support the software in operational environments where needed
  
  

Essential Skills And Experience

• 8+ years of experience with developing complex web-based applications using C# with ASP.NET MVC or .NET Core
• Deep understanding of C#
• Deep understanding of .NET 6 or later
• Deep understanding of EF6 or EF Core
• Solid experience with Blazor
• Solid experience with infrastructure concerns such as message bus-, queue-, remoting-, Web API technology in a service oriented architecture
• Experience with authentication and authorization flows, preferably OAuth and OIDC and the implementation in .NET
• Experience with security and secure coding principles
• Obsessed with writing clean modular loosely coupled code
• Solid experience with concepts such as SOLID, DDD, CQRS, Eventing
• Solid experience with Microsoft SQL Server 2019 or later including common admin tasks.
• Strong English verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Experience with working in a team of 5+ developers and testers
• Experience with coaching junior developers
• Ability to communicate with clarity, coherence, conciseness and engagement, both orally and in writing
  
  

Desirable Skills And Experience

• Experience in migrating from a monolithic architecture to a modular monolith.
• Experience with test management, test planning, test execution and test reporting
• Experience with quality assurance and quality control
  
  

Working Location

• The Hague, Netherlands
  
  

Working Policy

• On-Site
  
  

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.