The posting
Deadline Date: Thursday 12 November 2026
Requirement: Cloud Engineer
Location: Brussels, BE
Full Time On-Site: No
Time On-Site: 40%
Total Scope of the request (hours): Base period 2027: 38 hours/week for a total of 42 weeks and a total of 1596 hours
2028 Option: 38 hours/week for a total of 42 weeks and a total of 1596 hours
Period of Performance: 2027 BASE: 18 Jan 2027 to 31 Dec 2027
2028 Option: 01 Jan – 31 Dec 2028
Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET
Special Terms and Conditions: The contractor will be responsible for complying with the respective national requirements for working permits, visas, taxes social security etc. whilst working on site at NATO HQ- Brussels, Belgium. No special status is either conferred or implied by the host organisation, NATO HQ- Brussels, Belgium on to the contractor whilst working on site.
1 GENERAL
1.1 Introduction
1.1.1 The Cyber Threat Analysis Branch (CTAB) is looking for a Cloud Engineer to further develop and maintain the cloud environment used to host NATO’s cyber threat intelligence platform, intended to support cyber threat intelligence production for the NATO Enterprise and Alliance.
1.2 Background Information
1.2.1 The Joint Intelligence and Security Division (JISD), under the leadership of the Assistant Secretary General for Intelligence and Security (ASG I&S), comprises two principal pillars: Intelligence – headed by the Deputy ASG for Intelligence; and the NATO Office of Security (NOS) – headed by the Deputy ASG for Security. Intelligence is responsible for ensuring the situational awareness of the North Atlantic Council and the Military Committee, for the analysis of the indications and warnings in support of the NATO Crisis Response System and for the development of intelligence policies and capabilities for NATO. Its functional areas address: intelligence analysis and production, intelligence policy and capability development.
1.2.2 The joint civilian and military Intelligence Production Unit (IPU), under the JISD, delivers strategic intelligence-based analysis to support North Atlantic Council (NAC) and Military Committee (MC) decision making on strategic issues of concern. The IPU produces a range of planned and tasked intelligence products on regional issues in Eurasia, Africa and the Middle East, and on transnational issues such as hybrid warfare, terrorism, instability, weapons of mass destruction and energy security.
1.2.3 The Cyber Threat Analysis Branch (CTAB), under the IPU, is responsible for providing evidence-based assessments of the cyber threat landscape to empower NATO stakeholders to make risk-informed decisions. The multidisciplinary team combines all-source data with cutting edge technologies to support and enhance the Alliance leaderships’ understanding on the nature of cyber competition and conflict. CTAB systematically identifies strategic patterns and trends in cyber space and generates tailored insights to support network defence and mission assurance with predictive analysis, cyber threat intelligence, and threat hunting.
2 STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES
2.1 Corporate Objective
2.2 The contractor (Cloud Engineer) will support the work of the Cyber Threat Analysis Branch and be responsible for maintain and developing CTAB’s cloud environment in order to support the functioning of CTAB’s cyber threat intelligence platform.
2.3 Contract Objective
2.3.1 Obtain specialist consulting services to support the following initiatives:
2.3.1.1 Ensure the integrity, availability and confidentiality of CTAB’s cloud environment and lead maintenance and development efforts together with a software engineer, data scientist, and CTI researchers.
2.3.1.2 Push for innovative new ways to architect security, data flows, and cost optimalization within the environment while ensuring maximum stability, scalability and functionality.
2.3.1.3 Develop automation pipelines for infrastructure provisioning and configuration as well as for coding projects within the platform, while ensuring up-to-date documentation and clear communications on performed work.
2.3.1.4. Help in transitioning from a AWS-based cloud environment to a Azure-based cloud environment.
2.4 Management Objective
2.4.1 Allow the Contractor the maximum flexibility to innovatively manage its corporate resources and expertise so as to provide a high-value contribution in support to NATO’s corporate and contract objectives within existing constraints and available funding.
3 PERSONNEL AND RESOURCES
[See Requirements]
4 HOURS OF OPERATION
4.1 While performing at NATO sites, Contractor’s personnel must work during NATO official working hours (normally between 8:30–18:00, Monday to Thursday, and between 8:30-16:00 on Friday), unless otherwise specified in the task orders. Recognized holidays are official holidays approved by the NATO site specified in the task order, or if no site is specified in the task order, by the NATO Headquarters. A list of the official holidays can be obtained from the NATO Project Manager designated in task orders.
4.2 Exceptionally, Contractor’s personnel may be required to work outside normal working hours.
4.3 Exceptionally, Contractor’s personnel may be required to visit other locations other than those specified in the task order in order to participate in project-related meetings, in which case any associated travel costs will be reimbursed.
4.4 Contractor’s Key Personnel performing services under Contract shall take vacation and voluntary leave at times agreed between the Contractor and the designated NATO Project Manager.
5 NATO FURNISHED PROPERTY AND SERVICES
5.1 The Organization will provide the Contractor with a secure working environment in NATO HQ for an expected minimum of 2 days per week, where the other 3 days per week are remote work from home, as well as access to the CTAB cyber threat intelligence platform.
6 CONTRACTOR FURNISHED PROPERTY AND SERVICES
6.1 Except for those items or services specifically stated to be NATO furnished in Section 5 above, the Contractor shall furnish everything required to perform this Contract.
7 CONTRACTOR TASKS
7.1 General
7.1.1 Under the guidance and supervision of the NATO IS Procurement Service, the selected service provider will be responsible for the execution of the tasks and for the delivery of the specialist products specified in this SOW.
7.2 Task Order Management
7.2.1 The Contractor will be responsible for conducting cloud engineering to support NATO’s cyber threat intelligence production. The Contractor must:
7.2.1.1 Ensure the availability, confidentiality, and integrity of CTAB’s cloud environment, and do so in a cost-effective way, by provisioning, configuring and monitoring cloud resources using Terraform and ensure all code and work is maintainable and documented.
7.2.1.2 Work with data scientists, software engineers, researchers and end-users to translate their requirements into functionalities within the cloud environment, while ensuring security is front-and-centre.
7.2.1.3 Participate in team and branch calls as required by the team lead to give status updates on projects and developments pertinent to the Contractor’s tasks.
7.3 Development of Specialist Products
7.3.1 The Contractor shall produce the Deliverables as specified in the task order management under supervision of the NATO Project Manager. The Contractor shall submit Deliverables to the NATO Project Manager for Quality Review, test or inspection not later than the dates specified by the NATO Project Manager.
7.3.2 The Contractor shall continuously validate any deliverables with the NATO Project Manager and peers within CTAB.
7.3.3 The Contractor shall hold periodic sessions with the NATO Project Manager to make sure that the deliverables are aligned with NATO’s expectations.
8 QUALITY CONTROL
8.1 Contractor’s products must comply with the criteria as set forth by the NATO Project Manager. Contractor must implement an appropriate quality control process in order to make sure that the products which are submitted for quality review, inspection or acceptance are of acceptable quality.
8.2 The Organization will immediately stop the review, inspection, acceptance or delivery of those products or services that are affected by material deficiencies, significant omissions, or gross mistakes and return the delinquent products to the Contractor for correction, or request the reperformance of service. The review and acceptance processes will be suspended until the Contractor’s shows that the product has been subject to a thorough quality control before being submitted again for review.
9 QUALITY ASSURANCE AND CONTRACTOR PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT
9.1 General
9.1.1 NATO will evaluate the Contractor’s performance under this task order in accordance with reasonable quality assurance procedures and techniques such as random and periodic inspections and surveys. All observations will be recorded by NATO Project Manager or his/her designees. When an observation indicates defective performance, the NATO Project Manager will obtain the Contractor’s representative’s initials on the record of the observation. Contract Discrepancy Reports will be issued wherever the nature and circumstances of the deficiency warrant such a measure.
9.2 Performance Evaluation Meetings
9.2.1 The Contractor’s contract or project manager may be required to meet periodically with the NATO Project Manager and the Procurement Officer during the period of task order performance. Meetings will be scheduled as required. The Contractor may request meetings whenever a Contract Discrepancy Report is issued. The written minutes of these meetings shall be signed by the contractor’s manager, Procurement Officer, and NATO Project Manager. If the Contractor does not concur with the minutes, any areas of non-concurrence shall be submitted to NATO Project Manager within 10 working days of receipt of the signed minutes.
Requirements
3 PERSONNEL AND RESOURCES
3.1 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
3.1.1 All general and domain specific qualification requirements stated in the AAS+ Framework Agreement shall be applicable (e.g., required English proficiency).
- The Contractor will require a NATO SECRET clearance.
3.2 SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS
3.2.1 In addition to the generic qualification requirements established in the AAS+ Agreement, The Contractor must have:
- A university degree from a nationally recognised/certified university in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Operations Research, etc.) with substantial systems engineering content and 2 years of specific experience – OR - at least 4 years’ experience similar to the tasks described in this SoW and relevant industry recognized certificates.
- Knowledge of and experience in maintaining and developing multi-account AWS cloud environments, specifically in core AWS products such as Lambda, S3, CloudTrail, ECS, EC2, and similar, as well as working according to industry best practices such as AWS’s Well Architected Framework.
- Significant experience in using Terraform to build and maintain cloud infrastructure as code, setting up CI/CD pipelines, automating containerized workloads on ECS and conditional access.
- Able to set up monitoring, logging and alerting with tools like CloudTrail and GuardDuty, and experienced in managing IAM with SSO, VPC networking, and least-privilege security controls.
- Proficient in Python and Bash and knowledge of Docker, Linux administration and Git.
- Experience within cybersecurity and/or the intelligence domain is strongly preferred but not required for this role, as is experience with Azure.
- Good communication skills, both orally and written. Able to translate complex technical topics into information conveyable to non-domain experts. Can easily cooperate with non-cloud experts and explain conducted work, as well as give and take feedback and create clear and structured documentation based on the work conducted.
