SATCOM Engineering Support Services for NATO with security clearance

Three quarters of this SATCOM role is off-site. The quarter that is not is in Belgium, working on the satellite links the Alliance depends on.

You will provide SATCOM engineering support across UHF and SHF - link budgets, RF and antenna work, architecture and project proposals - for an international defence organisation, alongside its operational commands.

What you will be doing

• Engineering support across SATCOM systems in the UHF and SHF domains
• Link budget analysis, modulation and coding choices, and satellite network topology work

• RF and antenna engineering, including propagation modelling in SATCOM bands

• Applying SATCOM cybersecurity architecture principles, including encryption and secure communications design
• Building detailed technical project proposals aligned to operational requirements and interoperability standards
• Service management work - incident and problem handling - in an operational or control-centre setting

• A degree in telecommunications, electronics or SATCOM engineering with two years of related experience, or higher vocational training with five
• At least three years of practical SATCOM experience across UHF and SHF

• Deep knowledge of SATCOM architecture: link budgets, modulation schemes, error correction coding, network topologies

• Strong RF and antenna engineering, with propagation modelling in SATCOM frequency bands
• Familiarity with DVB-S2 and DVB-S2X, MIL-STD-188, and Software Defined Networking in SATCOM environments
• English at C1

Practical detail

• Contract engagement, base period starting no later than 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, with two option years
• An active security clearance is required for this role