Applications Database Administrator

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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 – 2025-0364

Role Background

The NCI Agency (hereafter referred to as the “Purchaser”) is technical support for the NBAC Business Area for the FINS Service. The support focuses on ensuring continued L2 and L3 support for existing applications while also offering expert guidance and consultation on continuous improvement changes and ongoing projects when required.

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Support the development and reviewing of documentation such as requirements definitions, functional and technical design documents, systems specifications and other deliverables.

• Participate in and perform Testing activities and readiness assessments.

• Develop Test Scenarios for User Acceptance testing (UAT).

• Follow project approach and methodology.

• Participate in frequent (daily, weekly) meetings with the team, observing team schedule.

• Provide briefings and presentations.

• Participate in UAT and review UAT results.

• Provide training for Key Users.

Essential Skills, Experience and Certifications

• A minimum of 15 years recent practical experience as an Oracle E-Business Suite DBA, demonstrating a 60 months sustained period of performance on the previous 2 most recent assignments. In this capacity, the Consultant must have performed duties such as installing, upgrading, and supporting (patching, troubleshooting, tuning) Oracle E-Business Suite software and the associated Oracle Technology stack in a multi-tier/multi-node/multi-platform environment, comprising database server, applications server, web server, concurrent processing server, reports server, forms server, admin server, and discoverer server.

• Experience of managing multiple Oracle installations on large systems. In particular, the candidate must be conversant with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 (or higher) and Oracle Database 19c (or higher) product versions in Linux environments.

• Practical experience with Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Database backup/recovery (RMAN), configuration, sizing, space management, monitoring, patching, upgrades, performance tuning, troubleshooting and administration.

• Expertise in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 (or higher) technical architecture, including knowledge of the underlying database architecture, with particular reference to schemas/products, database objects, file system structure, tables, views, packages, procedures, functions, triggers, sequences, indexes and constraints.

• Sound knowledge of and proven practical experience with IaaS, PaaS & SaaS solutions delivered through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services platforms.

• Broad knowledge of and proven practical experience with WebLogic application server and proven ability in dealings with Forms/Reporting/Apache Web servers and configuring, troubleshooting and tuning

• Sound knowledge of and proven practical experience with advanced topology elements like shared APPL_TOP, Oracle Clusterware, Rapid Application Cluster (RAC), Automatic Storage Management (ASM), Demilitarized Zones (DMZ) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions.

• Sound knowledge of and proven practical experience with advanced security implementations of Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 (or higher).

• Sound knowledge of and proven practical experience with Oracle's Enterprise Manager 13g or higher and Oracle’s Enterprise Manager Application Management Suite for Oracle E-Business Suite.

• Sound knowledge of and proven practical experience UNIX/Linux/Windows and good automation (UNIX/Linux/PowerShell scripting) skills.

Working Location

• Braine l’Alleud, Belgium

Working Policy

• Hybrid (40% onsite/60% offsite)

Travel

• Some travel to other NATO sites may be required

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance

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