RFQ C004701 - Transmission Engineer; NaaS

Nivelles, Belgium | Posted on 24/02/2026

McBride Consulting, based in McLean, VA, USA, and with offices in Brussels, BEL and Bucharest; ROU through its wholly owned subsidiary McBride International, is a Prime Contractor on the NCIA Advisory and Assistance Services Plus (AAS+) Framework.

We are a management and IT consulting firm with significant professional services experience that includes IT transformation, project management, digital transformation, strategic planning, business process improvement, change management, human capital management, systems engineering, and operations. Due to our excellent relationship with NATO and the first-class, security cleared candidates that we source and supply from all 32 NATO nations, we are extremely privileged to ask you to review this role to assess your suitability of skills.

You will be working as a contractor for our client the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA)
NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA)
NCIA was established on 1 July 2012 from a merger of several NATO entities. It has a 65-year legacy of supporting NATO operations, missions, and exercises and is on the front lines against cyber threats, protecting NATO's networks 24/7. NCIA provides expertise and services that are critical to NATO's ability to fulfill its core tasks of consultation, collective defence, and crisis management.

You will support NCIA NSII NCI Transmission Services with the following tasks:

• Assist the lead engineers in providing Level 2 and 3 support for the managed transmission infrastructure services, particularly network management, system maintenance and engineering support on related NGCS, DCIS and AirC2 Link 1 components and associated networks and their interfaces, applications and protocols;
• Provide on-line network management to cover fault, performance, accounting, configuration and security management of services provisioned via transmission components of NGCS and AirC2 Link 1, mainly in legacy TOM, and secondary IP/MPLS;
• Provide engineering assistance for networking, interconnections through smart intelligent multiplexes and various data switching and routing equipment, and terminating equipment including modem and cryptographic equipment;
• Provide engineering assistance in operations and maintenance of the assigned transmission systems, their interfaces and protocols;
• Provide engineering assistance in evaluation of incident reports trend analysis of the assigned systems and services and their associated networks;
• Provide engineering assistance in preparation of Engineering Change Proposals (ECP), operational advice notices, system / equipment configuration, interface standards and procedures as requested and upon each and every change in within managed services and systems;
• Provide technical support in planning and implementation of system configuration changes and enhancement suggestions;
• Provide specialist advice and knowledge transfer to other staff members on matters concerning specialist competency area;
• Conduct technical reviews to ensure implementation projects comply with services and deployable systems requirements;
• Assist in development, maintenance and review of technical documentation to contribute to creation and improvement of methods, procedures and tools in relation to transmission services provisioning and design for both NGCS and AirC2 Link 1 managed systems and services;
• Verify, maintains, prepares and posts services and systems documentation, to include engineering guidance notes for CSU, DCM and AirC2 Link 1 technical personnel; and
• Assist and advise remotes sites to resolve technical transmission services incidents.

Essential education, experience, and training:

• A university degree in ICT System Engineering and supplemented by substantial qualifications within the C41SR
  Domain;
• In-depth knowledge of Alcatel Lucent Service Routers, Service Access Router and Switches, as well as Cisco routing and switching equipment;
• In-depth knowledge and experience in the installation, testing, integration and programming and configuration of telecommunications multiplexers on switched and TOM networks;
• A minimum of 4 years' experience with the configuration and operation of Network Monitoring and Event Management systems ideally lntermapper, Spectrum, HP Openview and Splunk;
• General experience in the installation, testing, integration and programming and configuration of IP/MPLS routing networks;
• In-depth knowledge and experience of legacy communications networks (TOM, SOH, ATM, synchronization);
• General knowledge of modern communications systems such as IP/MPLS, DWDM technology; and
• Ability to effectively work and communicate in English.

• Experience on specific NATO transmission networks, interfaces and encryption devices;
• Related field experience in operation, administration and maintenance of digital telecommunication and transmission systems;
• Valid/active Alcatel Lucent Network Routing…