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 Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) is a key agency within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) focused on providing comprehensive logistics, procurement, and support services to NATO member countries, partners, and other customers. The NSPA facilitates the collective acquisition and management of goods and services, ranging from military equipment to general supplies, enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of NATO operations. 

The agency's responsibilities include: 

• Procurement: managing the acquisition of a wide range of goods and services, including military equipment, supplies, and support services. 
• Logistics: offering logistics support such as transportation, warehousing, and distribution to ensure that NATO forces have the necessary resources when and where they are needed. 
• Maintenance: providing maintenance and repair services for military equipment, ensuring operational readiness and extending the lifespan of assets. 
• Project Management: overseeing and implementing various projects, including infrastructure development and other support activities. 

The NSPA operates under the direction of the NATO Support and Procurement Organization (NSPO), which sets the strategic goals and policies for the agency. By centralizing and standardizing procurement and logistics services, the NSPA helps NATO members achieve cost savings, improved interoperability, and enhanced operational capability. 

The program

The NSPA Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services are relying on three underlying infrastructures:

Network

• Local Area Networks (LANs) to allow NSPA users to reachback ICT systems located in the NSPA datacenters.
• Wide Area Networks (WANs) to allow NSPA remote offices and mobile users to securely reach back the NSPA datacenters located in Luxembourg
• Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) to securely interconnect NSPA datacenters and Outside Cabling Plants (OCPs) located in Luxemourg.

Unified Communication (UC)

• Video Teleconferencing (VTC) systems,
• Telephony systems composed of PBX, voice gateways, deskphones, softphones, mobile phones and smartphones.
• Interfaces with other communication services such as voice mail, instant messaging, collaboration (e.g. MS SKYPE).
• Federation with other NATO voice and video services.
• Public Announcement Systems (PAS) and Massive SMS notification systems alarms

Datacenters (DC)

• 2 Tier 4 datacenters externalized in Betzdorf and Bettembourg (LUX)
• 1 datacenter in Capellen (LUX)
• Smaller datacenters in Papa (HUN), Taranto (SOC) and Eindhoven (NL)
• Outside Cabling Plants (OCPs) in Capellen

Role Duties and Responsibilities

Day-to-day Operation and Maintenance (O&M) type of consultancy services for network, Unified Communication (UC) and datacenter (DC) and support for projects related to specific network, UC and DC related projects.

Essential Skills and Experience 

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge of various networking environment operating systems
• Knowledge of Microsoft UC technologies such as Skype and MS Teams
• Able to coordinate third-party maintenance for Unified Communications equipment
• Experience with troubleshooting Unified Communications, Network and application performance with performance monitoring tools

Product Qualifications

• Cisco Communications Manager
• Cisco Unity
• Cisco VCS
• Cisco TMS
• Cisco Expressway
• Cisco ISDN Gateway
• Cisco Presence
• Cisco Webex cloud
• Informacast Public Announcement Systems
• Cisco/Tandberg Video endpoints
• Cisco codecs
• Cisco MCU
• Microsoft Skype

Competencies

• Superior written and oral communication skills
• Superior client facing skills
• Ability to work on a flexible basis
• Ability to perform some travel across European NATO sites

Experience

• 5 years’ experience in Unified Communications (voice and videoconferencing) specifically operational support is mandatory.
• 3 years’ experience with Daily Unified Communications, network and systems operational and support activities
• 2 years' years’ experience in an Senior Unified Communications Engineer role, implementing and supporting Unified Communications infrastructures
• 2 years’ experience with Cisco Unified Communications design.

NATO Experience

• 2 years minimum experience with NATO organization, NATO IT infrastructure's (network, unified communication and security) and NATO IT related policies is desirable.

Professional Certifications

Any of the following certifications:

• CCT Routing and Switching
• CCNA Routing and Switching
• CCNA Wireless
• DEVNET
• CCNP ENCOR
• 300-620 DCACI
• SD WAN
• CCNP Routing and Switching
• CCNP Voice
• CLCOR 350-801
• CCIE Routing and Switching
• CCIE Service Provider
• 1 Mobile Iron (Support Specialist Fundamental 8.5 + Intermediate 7.5 + Design and Deployment 7.5 + Core Deployment & Admin Fundamentals 9.1)
• MS AZ900
• F5 L101
• F5 L201, L303, L304
• INFOBLOX CDAT

Languages

• Proficiency in English (oral and written), equivalent to CEFR B2 or higher, is mandatory
• Proficiency in French is (oral) is desirable

Education

• A university degree or equivalent professional experience

Working Location

• Capellen, Luxembourg

Working Hours and Policy

• On-Site, according to NSPA flexible working hours: Monday to Thursday (07:00 – 19:00) and Friday (07:00 – 14:00)
• Public Holidays of Luxembourg will be applicable

Travel

• Travel to other NATO sites may be required occasionally: Versailles (FRA), Papa (HUN), Taranto (ITA), Eindhoven (NL) and Cologne (GE).

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance

About us

We’re Littlepay - a growing fintech headquartered in Melbourne with operations in the UK, EU, LATAM, USA, and Australia. Our payments platform enables our customers to pay for public transport using any payment card, mobile wallet, or wearable device. Processing over USD 1 billion a year in 19 countries and continuing to expand globally, we’re proud to move more people through better payment experiences.

About the opportunity

The Littlepay Platform Team provides tooling and support for our Engineering organisation, owns shared and fundamental services, and collaborates with teams for their DevOps or infrastructure projects. Joining the Infra side of the team, you’ll be working closely with your Infra team mates and with the Platform Devex team on build systems, production support, and PCI-compliant infrastructure. You’ll encourage and support DevOps practises through tooling, vendor management and support. You’ll also work on and be on call for our base infrastructure across the platform, including networking, ECS runtime, PKI and RDS.

Key Responsibilities

This role calls for a self-sufficient engineer who can use their experience to:

• Support devops practises by maintaining tooling infrastructure and providing day-to-day troubleshooting
• Join the on-call roster for our platform across weekdays, overnights and weekends
• Consider and improve the Littlepay software ecosystem across the full build-test-deploy- release-monitor cycle
• Maintain, improve and design cost-effective and scalable PCI-compliant infrastructure
• Mentor and support platform team members
• Stay up-to-date with AWS services and industry trends
• Write and maintain internal tools, services and documentation
• Support the Littlepay engineering function

About You:

Core Skills and Attributes

• Programming and Scripting — any language, familiarity with Java, Go and Bash preferred
• Communication — we do a lot of communicating and strong written and verbal will be important
• Empathy — we’re a service provider, so having high empathy for our internal stakeholders is a big deal
• A love of learning — we take learning and growth seriously and you’ll need to be down with that

For this role we are specifically looking for candidates who are strong in:

• AWS — especially serverless runtime and cloud networking
• DevOps — releasing software is your jam, you know what a DORA metric is and how to use it to improve processes, experience with Buildkite preferred
• DevSecOps — security is at the heart of everything we do, so must be considered a fundamental part of the DevOps cycle

Our Benefits

We love to look after our people. At Littlepay, you'll be part of an inclusive and diverse team that celebrates the differences and unique gifts we each bring to work.

You’ll have access to:

• A high trust working environment, with access to cloud collaboration tools like Notion, Slack, Miro, Google Workspace, and Jira to help us work together effectively
• Paid professional development (including conferences, courses, learning subscriptions, etc.)
• Harrison Assessments - our talent management provider that facilitates continuous professional development
• A variety of flexible leave options
• A company-wide paid day off
• Our generous employee referral program
• Wellbeing support- including a free School of Life subscription for all employees
• Mid-year, quarterly, and end-of-year corporate and team events and workshops
• Short-term remote working arrangements
• International travel opportunities (dependent on role)

In-office expectations

At Littlepay, we believe great work happens when we solve problems, together. We see in-person collaboration as an important way to build connections, share ideas, and support each other meaningfully.

For those assigned to an office location, we generally expect a minimum two-day presence in the office each week. This may vary depending on your role, team, and location. For example, our team in Luxembourg works 4 days from the office, whereas our AU and UK teams currently work a minimum of 2 days onsite in our Melbourne/London offices. Some positions might require more frequent office attendance to support cross-functional collaboration, customer engagement, or specific team workflows. Your hiring manager will provide details relevant to your role.

We aim to strike a healthy balance between in-person connection and flexibility, while staying connected to deliver with speed and agility as we continue to scale, ensuring our ways of working support both our people and our shared ambition to move more people through better payment experiences.

Our Recruitment Process

If you’ve been shortlisted for the role, you’ll first have a chat with our Talent team, who will set up an interview if the stars align. A short workplace preferences questionnaire will also be sent to help us learn more about the way you prefer to work. Following a successful first interview, you’ll meet with a second set of Littlepay folks, and be invited to participate in the final stage before being presented with an offer.

If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process or if you require any accommodations for any stage in the interview process, please don’t hesitate to let us know. Additionally, if you don’t meet all of the criteria (we know that some underrepresented groups tend to avoid applying if they don’t), please still apply. We really enjoy meeting people who might bring a fresh perspective on a problem we need to solve!

Ultimately, being part of our small but mighty team means you'll have the opportunity to learn about micropayments, and have a hand in the provision of services that impact millions of people. You’ll help us deliver on our revolutionary product roadmap and help scale our platform as we continue to expand across the globe.

If this opportunity interests you, hit apply! We look forward to learning about you.

Senior Business Development Manager ( Dutch Speaking)  - Luxembourg 

Convera is seeking a Dutch speaking Senior Business Development Manager to manage corporate accounts, develop effective sales strategies, identify new business opportunities and develop strong client relationships. You’ll join our Cross-border Sales team, based out of our Luxembourg office, where you will be responsible for the sales of complex products, hedging solutions & FX into the Dutch & Dutch speaking markets to businesses utilising cross-border payments.  

Fluency in Dutch is mandatory for this position. 

You will be responsible for: 

• Approaching business prospects on behalf of the company to attract new clients for our Corporate Sales division. 

• Influencing clients from ranging from the finance director or chief executive officer of a large, established corporations. 

• Consulting with clients on their currency requirements, risk profile and payment solutions whilst progressing towards securing sustainable, profitable trading relationships. 

• Performing market analysis, attending on and offline events. 

• Managing the full sales-cycle up to on-boarding the new client, before handing over responsibility to your colleagues in the client account management team. 

• Collaborating with colleagues from different departments within Convera. 

You should apply if you have/are: 

• Ambitious, self-motivated, confident with high integrity and tenacity to outperform the competition. 

• Financially astute with knowledge of business needs and able to demonstrate success in new business sales in a dynamic environment consistently achieving or exceeding targets. 

• Experienced using the principles of consultative selling and customer acquisition (including networking events, trade fairs, cold calling, etc.) 

• Adept at executive corporate level negotiations and building long-term client relationships. 

• Foreign Exchange or Finance knowledge (required). 

• Ability to work individually, and to collaborate with others in a fast-paced, team environment, making quick decisions, and managing timelines. 

• Previous experience working towards key performance indicators and individual targets to achieve weekly, quarterly, and annual goals. 

About Convera 

Convera is the largest non-bank B2B cross-border payments company in the world. Formerly Western Union Business Solutions, we leverage decades of industry expertise and technology-led payment solutions to deliver smarter money movements to our customers – helping them capture more value with every transaction. 

Convera serves more than 30,000 customers ranging from small business owners to enterprise treasurers to educational institutions to financial institutions to law firms to NGOs. 

Our teams care deeply about the value we bring to our customers which makes Convera a rewarding place to work. This is an exciting time for our organization as we build our team with growth-minded, results-oriented people who are looking to move fast in an innovative environment. 

As a truly global company with employees in over 20 countries, we are passionate about diversity; we seek and celebrate people from different backgrounds, lifestyles, and unique points of view. We want to work with the best people and ensure we foster a culture of inclusion and belonging. 

We offer an abundance of competitive perks and benefits including: 

• Market competitive monthly gross salary and generous commission structure 

• Private medical insurance  

• Meal Vouchers 

• Employee assistance program providing confidential counselling 24/7 

• Paid volunteering opportunities (5 days per year) 

There are plenty of amazing opportunities at Convera for talented, creative problem solvers who never settle for good enough and are looking to transform Business to Business payments. 

Apply now if you are ready to unleash your potential!