SATCOM Systems Engineer (Link Budget, RF and Antenna Design) for NATO with security clearance

A NATO organisation in Braine-lAlleud is looking for a satellite communicationsengineer who can take a solution from an operational requirement all the way to acceptancetesting. You would be the technical lead on acquisition projects: writing the specificationsupporting evaluation holding the design together through implementation and supervising thetesting at the end of it.

• Providing technical leadership to acquisition projects integrated interoperable solutionstechnical specifications evaluation support and acceptance testing.
• Contributing to solution architectures evaluating alternatives and the trade-offs in costperformance and scalability and documenting the decisions that matter.
• Aligning solutions with the enterprise and solution architecture standards securityincluded.
• Defining and managing scoping requirements and prioritisation; reviewing requirements forerrors and omissions; documenting traceability and handling authorised changes to thebaseline.
• Planning and driving systems development projects selecting the methods and tools reportingprogress and building road maps for what comes next.
• Preparing pre-qualification questionnaires and tender invitations producing detailedevaluation criteria for complex tenders and evaluating them.
• Acting as the routine technical contact point with suppliers on contract management.
• Overseeing design reviews making sure the design balances functional and non-functionalrequirements and managing the associated risks.
• Driving systems integration test and acceptance including automation and continuousintegration and giving authoritative advice on any part of it.
• Making sure SATCOM project proposals line up with NATO operational requirementsinteroperability standards and future capability needs.

• A Bachelors degree in a related discipline with three years of relevant experience.
• At least three years of practical SATCOM experience across the UHF and SHFdomains.
• Deep knowledge of SATCOM architecture budget calculation for a link the modulation choices coding that corrects errors and how satellite networks are laid out.
• Strong radio-frequency engineering and antennas modelling how the signal travels in the bands SATCOM uses and knowing what degrades it and what to do about that.
• SATCOM cybersecurity architecture principles including encryption and secure communicationsdesign.
• Familiarity with DVB-S2 and DVB-S2X MIL-STD-188 and software defined networking in SATCOMenvironments.
• Familiarity with modern military communication networks interfaces protocols andoperational environments.
• Experience writing analysing and commenting on technical documents and the communicationskills to make complex SATCOM concepts land with a non-specialist audience.

• A Masters in telecommunications engineering with five years of relevant experience.
• Deployable CIS and Infrastructure as a Service systems engineering and MBSE and ITIL v4Foundation.
• Recognised systems engineering or MBSE training or certification.
• An international environment with both military and civilian colleagues and an understandingof NATO operational standards and procedures.

• Braine-lAlleud Belgium full time on site normal officeenvironment.
• 28 September to 31 Decemberhours in total.
• Graded at the equivalent of NATO G15.
• You must hold a valid clearance and be a citizen of a NATO member country with the right towork in Belgium.

If link budgets and antenna work are your natural territory and you enjoy being the person whosigns off that a system does what it promised this is a strong one.