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 – C004843

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve highly scalable, secure, and resilient Kubernetes platforms utilizing SUSE Rancher as the central management plane.
• Handle the end-to-end lifecycle of RKE/RKE2 clusters (provisioning, scaling, patching and upgrading) across hybrid, multi-cloud or bare-metal environments with minimal to zero downtime.
• Develop and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines and implement GitOps workflows (using tools like Gitlab, ArgoCD or Rancher Fleet) to streamline continuous application delivery.
• Monitor platform health using tools like Prometheus and Grafana, respond to system alerts and troubleshoot complex containerized workload issues.
• Enforce security policy's, including network policies, Rancher RBAC configurations and automated container image scanning.
• Proactively monitor resource utilization (CPU, memory, persistent storage) to right-size clusters, scale nodes dynamically and optimize cloud or on-prem infrastructure.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, including runbooks and architecture diagrams.

Essential Skills, Experience and Certifications

• Minimum of 4 years of dedicated, hands-on experience in DevOps or Platform Engineering roles.
• Over 4 years of sustained experience designing, deploying and maintaining highly available production Kubernetes clusters, heavily utilizing the SUSE Rancher ecosystem.
• A solid track record of leading complex migrations, moving legacy virtualized applications into containerized, microservice-based architectures.
• Expertly provision, secure, and lifecycle-manage large-scale, multi-cluster Kubernetes environments using SUSE Rancher UI/API and Rancher Manager.
• Write modular, reusable code to automate infrastructure provisioning across hybrid environments using Ansible.
• Architect and maintain sophisticated, zero-downtime deploymentpipelines using GitOps principles with Gitlab, ArgoCD or Rancher Fleet.
• Author/manage advanced Helm charts and manage complex stateful and stateless deployments.
• Engineer comprehensive monitoring and logging stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) to establish SLIs/SLOs and configure automated remediation. Experience with Rancher Observability is a plus.
• Develop robust automation scripts in Python or Bash.
• Rapidly diagnose and resolve high-severity incidents across the entire stack, from kernel-level container issues to complex network routing failures.
• Comprehensive understanding of the underlying architectures of RKE, RKE2, K8S /K3s and knowing exactly when to apply each distribution.
• Knowledge of zero-trust models, Rancher RBAC, Pod Security Admissions, container scanning and enforcing governance.
• CNIs tools (Calico, Cilium, Canal) deep understanding of Software Defined Network and Container Networking, network policies and managing complex Ingress and Service Mesh (Istio)architectures.
• Expert knowledge of Container Storage Interfaces (CSI), disaster recovery planning and managing highly available storage solutions like SUSE Longhorn.
• Extensive practical experience operating distributed Kubernetes environments across a mix of bare-metal, on-premises hypervisors (vSphere, Nutanix), and public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience acting as a technical escalation point, guiding junior team members, and establishing DevOps best practices across development teams.

Working Location

• Brane-l’Alleud, Belgium

Working Policy

• Onsite

Travel

• Some travel to other NATO sites may be required

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance

Job details
● 💼 Engineering Team
● 📍 Belgium - Ghent
● 🕜 Full-Time/Hybrid

What you will do

As a Full-stack Engineer, you will dive into the heart of our data operations. You will be instrumental in developing scalable data architectures, managing complex data transformations, and handling large data streams on the fly. Your work will directly contribute to delivering the best business intelligence solutions in the hospitality industry and shaping the future of our Distribution Insight product.

Where you will have impact

• Implement and maintain robust streaming and batch data processing pipelines to handle massive data volumes in real-time.
• Design, build, and support scalable SaaS and microservices architectures for our industry-leading BI solutions.
• Guarantee data integrity and quality by extending our logging, monitoring, and outlier detection systems.
• Deploy and monitor applications in a reproducible and scalable way, taking ownership of parts of our tech stack and infrastructure.
• Clean, analyze, and extract valuable datasets from various external sources to fuel our insights.
• Collaborate with and provide support to your team members and other teams across the company to solve complex challenges.
• Continuously experiment with and improve our technology stack, finding new ways to enhance our products and processes.

About our team

Join our small but mighty team of six versatile engineers, including two DevOps specialists! We're the powerhouse behind the Distribution Insight product, a critical part of the Lighthouse platform. Our mission is to process billions of real-time transactions, turning complex data into actionable insights for our customers in under 10 minutes. From monitoring TCP packets to building and maintaining our custom BI tool, we own the entire data journey. We thrive on collaboration and have a huge impact, helping hotels analyze everything from booking errors to channel performance.

What's in it for you?

• Flexible working environment: Work from home or at one of our global offices.
• Flexible time off: Autonomy to manage your work-life balance.
• Collaborative team: High-bar, friendly, creative, and passionate colleagues.
• Career development: Workshops, frameworks, tools, training, and processes to realize your full potential.
• Impactful work: Shape products relied on by 85,000+ users worldwide.
• Mobility options: Mobility budget or company car (based on your job category).
• Competitive compensation: Proactively maintained to value your work.
• Net allowance: to support home office related expenses.
• Vouchers: lunch vouchers & eco vouchers.
• Comprehensive health insurance: Extensive coverage for you and your dependents.
• Pension funding: Group insurance to secure your future.
• Referral bonuses: Earn rewards for bringing in new talent.

Who you are

• Proven professional experience writing clean, maintainable Java code.
• Fluency in SQL and experience with database management.
• A strong affinity for and experience with big data technologies and concepts.
• A genuine passion for technology and AI tools and applying it to solve complex problems.
• A creative and entrepreneurial mindset with a drive for innovation and continuous improvement.
• A commitment to high standards and delivering quality work within a talented team.
• Excellent communication skills in English and a collaborative spirit.

We welcome

• Experience with cloud platforms like Google Cloud or AWS.
• Familiarity with web frameworks (e.g., Ember, JSF, AngularJS) and UNIX-based operating systems.
• Knowledge of modern Java features and Test-Driven Development (TDD) principles.

Technologies you will work with
Java, Python, SQL, Kafka, Google Cloud, Docker, Elasticsearch, Gitlab.

Job details
● 💼 Engineering Team
● 📍 Belgium - Ghent
● 🕜 Full-Time/Hybrid

What you will do

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer who is passionate about problem solving, scalable cloud engineering, automation and scalable programs, data architectures, complex data transformations, and handling large data streams on the fly, and wants to see their work translated into real life applications that impact 100,000’s of hotels worldwide.

Where you will have impact

• Implementing, deploying and maintaining SaaS and microservices architectures.
• Cleaning, analysing and extracting datasets from external sources.
• Guaranteeing data integrity and quality by extending our logging, monitoring and outlier detection systems.
• Deploying, upgrading and monitoring applications in a reproducible and scalable way.
• Experimenting, thinking about, and taking ownership of a piece of our tech stack/infrastructure and finding ways to improve it.
• Providing support to your team members and other teams in the company. We have a very open and flat structure and have a very short feedback loop on both internal and customer questions.
• You will be at the forefront of our AI evolution, helping to embed intelligence into our platform. You’ll not only build AI features for our customers but also champion an AI-first development culture within the engineering team.

About our team

You'll join the Distribution Insight team, a key part of our Enterprise division focused on providing data offerings to the world's largest hotel chains. Our mission is to help these global chains optimize their distribution, monitor their channels, and track performance to maximize revenue without increasing costs. We develop a suite of products and services to achieve this, from monitoring tools that system engineers use to investigate performance, to AI-driven services that automate massive manual workflows for our clients. You will work closely with our Lead DevOps Engineer to manage and improve our processes, helping to reduce manual work and increase automation so the team can scale effectively.

What's in it for you?

• Flexible time off: Autonomy to manage your work-life balance.
• Career development: Workshops, frameworks, and trainings to maximize your professional potential.
• Impactful work: Shape products relied on by 85,000+ users worldwide.
• Mobility options: Mobility budget or company car (based on your job category).
• Net allowance: Support for home office related expenses.
• Vouchers: Lunch vouchers & Eco vouchers.
• Comprehensive health insurance: Extensive coverage for you and your dependents.
• Pension funding: Group insurance to secure your future.
• Referral bonuses: Earn rewards for bringing in new talent.

Who you are

• Proven experience writing code, with a primary focus on Python.
• Solid experience with SQL, particularly in an Oracle Database environment.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, like GCP or AWS, and containerization technologies.
• Proficiency with UNIX commands and environments.
• You are a forward-thinking builder who views AI as a core component of modern architecture. You have a proven interest (or experience) in working with LLMs, agentic workflows, or AI-assisted coding tools to ship higher-quality code, faster.
• Strong critical thinking skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
• Fluency in professional English, both written and spoken.

We welcome

• An affinity for big data analytics and processing large-scale data streams.
• Experience with CI/CD tools, specifically GitLab CI.

Technologies you will work with

Google cloud, Docker, Python, SQL, UNIX, Oracle Database

 (feel free to ask us why these are the best fit for us)

#LI-Hybrid

Joining Collibra’s Cloud Operations Team

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Production Release Engineer to join our dynamic team. In this pivotal role, you will be instrumental in ensuring the seamless, reliable, and efficient delivery of our cutting-edge cloud services. You will act as a bridge between development, operations, and business stakeholders, driving continuous improvement, fostering innovation, and actively contributing to the architectural integrity and scalability of our platforms.

This position is remote.

DevOps Engineers at Collibra are responsible for

• Proactively research and integrate emerging technologies and cutting-edge software practices into our release processes and infrastructure.
• Formulate and champion new ideas and features to continuously enhance our infrastructure, functionality, and overall product effectiveness.
• Apply data modeling and predictive analysis techniques to anticipate and mitigate potential issues before they impact production.
• Act as a key liaison and facilitator between Production Engineering, other technical functions, external vendors, business partners, and end-users.
• Lead and actively participate in cross-team engineering discussions to design and evolve scalable, measurable, fault-tolerant, and cost-effective cloud services.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure a holistic approach to identifying, addressing, and resolving platform and functionality issues.
• Actively participate in architectural design reviews and discussions, providing valuable input on features, service improvements, and new service implementations.
• Utilize visual tools, such as flowcharts and diagrams, effectively during design and problem-solving processes.
• Provide high-level support and expertise for team and cross-functional projects related to release automation and infrastructure.
• Maintain clear and complete understanding of complex situations through intent listening and incisive questioning to ensure accurate interpretation and resolution.

You Have

• 5 years of experience in Release Engineering, DevOps, or a similar role focused on software delivery and infrastructure.
• Proven track record of driving process improvements and implementing automation in complex environments.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and their respective services.
• Strong proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD).
• Expertise in scripting and automation languages (e.g., Python, Go, Bash).
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Understanding of infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) principles and tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools.
• Professional experience installing, configuring, managing, and/or administering ElasticSearch.

You Are

• Exceptional with communication and interpersonal skills and have the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences.
• Strong in analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a proactive and preventative mindset.
• Able to influence and lead discussions across engineering teams.
• Self-driven and takes initiative to identify and implement improvements.

Measures of Success

• Within your first month, you will gain a deep understanding of existing release pipelines and infrastructure, proactively identifying initial pain points and potential areas for improvement.
• Within your third month, you will establish strong working relationships and trust with key stakeholders across development, product, and operations teams.
• Within your sixth month, you will contribute to a quantifiable improvement in at least one key DORA metric (e.g., Change Failure Rate reduction, Deployment Lead Time improvement) within a critical release pipeline. You will  successfully implement or significantly contribute to new automation efforts that demonstrably streamline a specific aspect of the release process.

Job Title: Hardware Design Engineer

Reports to: Director of Hardware Engineering

Department: Engineering

💼 About the role

We’re seeking an experienced hardware design engineer to expand our cryptographic hardware IP team. You would be joining a mature design team with a proven track record of delivering market leading cryptographic IP, your role would expose you to the latest cryptographic standards and allow you to develop for the latest technologies.

We hope that you have at least 5 years of experience working on hardware design of complex IPs targeted at deployment on latest generation FPGAs, preferably with some experience working with cryptographic and security IPs.

 We have been established since 2018, so you would be directly working with the founders and inventors of this deep tech startup. The technology is already a couple of years in the making, its feasibility having been established, funding secured, and it has a clear path to market. This is a great opportunity for career progression and to get a head start in a rapidly expanding segment of the technology industry.

⚒️ What you’ll be doing

• Design and implementation of hardware IP blocks and subsystems.
• Tailoring implementations to FPGAs
• Working with verification engineers to create verification and test plans.
• Creation of reliable, reusable and excellently structured hardware design flows.
• Providing feedback to architects on feasibility of implementation and specification quality.
• Ensuring clean lint and implementation reports for IP blocks and subsystems.

🎯 Required Skills And Qualifications

• A commitment to high quality engineering in all areas of their work, including advocating for the best long-term solutions over the easiest or quickest.
• Optimising designs for both area and performance in FPGA technologies.  
• Experience building hardware IP blocks from scratch, and owning the process from initial specification through to customer delivery.
• Confidence bringing up a design using a basic “designers testbench”.
• Experience with standard commercial EDA Design tooling flows.
• Knowledge of common bus protocols (e.g. AMBA AXI4, AHB).
• Experience building and simulating hardware/software co-designs.
• Confidence in debugging RTL simulations issues.
• Degree or equivalent in Electronics/Computer Science or other related discipline.

🖥️ Specific Technologies You Are Confident Using

• FPGA and emulation experience. We use Xilinx FPGAs extensively for prototyping and hardware/firmware co-development.
• Logical IP design using SystemVerilog.
• Version control using Git.
• Writing System and subsystem level tests in C, using CMake as a build system.
• Confidence using tools like Bash, TCL, CMake and Makefiles safely and sensibly.

👍 Preferred Skills And Qualifications

• Python scripting for flows and automation 
• Experience debugging gate level simulations.
• Knowledge of Industry standard SoC Security Architectures
• Knowledge of tamper resistance and/or power side-channel security countermeasures.
• Experience using Gitlab CI, or otherwise principles of continuous integration and testing.

🏆 Some of the perks of working with us:

• Unparalleled opportunities to learn and accelerated career development.
• A collaborative, team environment with people who truly love what they do.
• Competitive salary and share option scheme.
• Flexible and hybrid working, and a working from home budget.
• Private health insurance for yourself and your family.
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays and two wellness weeks).
• 50% gym membership discount.
• The chance to work with a spirited, smart, and friendly team!

Interested? Apply today to be part of the future of secure hardware! 🚀

Who we are

DoubleVerify is the recognized market innovator with the technology and tools that accurately authenticate the quality of digital media and drive ad performance for the world's largest brands. DV provides media transparency and accountability to deliver the highest level of impression quality for maximum advertising performance. Since 2008, DV has helped hundreds of Fortune 500 companies gain the most from their media spend by delivering best in class solutions across the digital ecosystem that help build a better industry. Learn more at doubleverify.com.

The Opportunity

The DevOps team at DoubleVerify is a 70+ team of experts positioned around the globe. We're building the infrastructure backbone for the next generation of AI-powered advertising verification that processes billions of impressions daily from the world's largest social media platforms.

As a DevOps RnD intern in Ghent, you’re positioned in a modern local office that interfaces with several different development teams. You’re part of a unique team that talks with developers, platform designers, security and many other teams in the company. You design solutions that directly affect how people work and get hands-on experience with working on production-grade infrastructure and codebases.

What You'll Achieve

• Be part of a local team in a global group
• Hands-on experience with scalable production infrastructure
• Gain experience in working with CI/CD, Infrastructure as code, the Cloud, and learn how AI can help in automating these.
• Get exposed to multiple teams of different cultures, locations and backgrounds
• Design and implement a full solution together with your mentor and other people in the team.

What You'll Bring

• You’re interested in understanding how technology works and digging deeper into details
• You’re not afraid to tackle complex systems and problems
• Initiative and autonomy— Use AI to unblock yourself, design a solution and validate it
• You're a collaborator: you have genuine curiosity about improving systems
• Active student in a computer science degree
• Basic understanding of Linux and scripting.
• Programming skills in a language such as Python, NodeJs or Go

What you’ll be working with

• Cloud: GCP (primary), AWS
• Orchestration: Kubernetes (GKE), Helm
• AI/ML: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Google ADK, n8n
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana
• CI/CD: GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions
• IaC: Terraform, ArgoCD
• Languages: Python, Go, Bash, NodeJs

Why DevOps at DoubleVerify?

• Collaborative Culture: You'll work with a global team across Europe, US and Israel learning from diverse perspectives
• Hybrid flexibility (3 days in Ghent office, flexible scheduling)
• Strong remote collaboration tools and practices
• Access to cutting-edge AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, etc.)

Who we are

DoubleVerify is a leading software analytics firm, publicly traded since April 2021 (NYSE: DV). We are the go-to source for tracking and analyzing digital ads for globally recognized brands and publishers. If you've ever come across an ad online, be it on the Web, Mobile, or CTV device, chances are we measured it.

Serving both advertisers and publishers, DoubleVerify operates on a massive scale, handling over 100B events per day. We verify that all ads are fraud free, appear next to appropriate content, appear to people in the right geography and measure the viewability and user’s engagement throughout the ad’s lifecycle. We also offer tools to empower clients to analyze, visualize and optimize the quality of their ad inventory.

With R&D centers in Belgium, USA, Israel, Finland, and Germany, we are a truly global company. We thrive in a dynamic environment with numerous challenges to solve. If you like to work in a large-scale environment and want to contribute to building products that significantly impact the industry and the web, DoubleVerify is the place for you.

The team and your role

We are looking for a highly motivated individual to join the Publisher Activation team based in Ghent.

The Publisher Activation team is dedicated to creating new integrations and tools that assist our customers, the publishers, in using our measurement technologies. To gather the necessary metrics for our measurement services, we directly integrate with the native browser APIs on the client-side. On the server side, we have multiple components that further process the requests initiated by our client-side scripts.

Our technology stack is built for scale and reliability. We use GitLab for version control and collaboration, with CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) powering our deployment pipeline. Grafana and Prometheus give us real-time visibility into our systems, while Google Cloud Platform and Cloudflare provide our serverless infrastructure. We store our data in BigQuery and rely on tools like Ox, Jest, and Playwright for testing and security. We also make heavy use of AI coding agents like Claude, Copilot, and Cursor to accelerate our development.

As a Junior Software Engineer Intern, you will be involved in the day-to-day activities of our team, including standups, engineering discussions, and code reviews. You will collaborate on our existing projects and also have the opportunity to cover a project from start to end. This is a hands-on position where you will be expected to write code and solve complex problems. You will be able to use agentic AI workflows to speed up your work, and you will also be assigned a mentor who will guide you throughout your internship, providing a rich learning experience. 

Who you are

You…

• are a Master's student in Computer Science or a closely related field. 
• are a problem solver first, not just a coder
• enjoy collaborating and are proactive, but you can also work independently

Extra plus points for:

• Familiarity with: JavaScript/TypeScript, serverless workers, web technologies, automated software testing, browser APIs, code profiling
• Good data analysis skills
• Open Source contributions or public GitHub projects (do share!)

What We Offer

• A dynamic environment that encourages rapid growth
• An 8-week internship during the summer period (Jul, Aug, Sept)
• Mentorship and Learning Opportunities
• A diverse and inclusive company culture
• Fun office perks such as snacks, lunch, etc.
• On-site at our Ghent office at least 3 days/week