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# SATCOM Engineering Support Services for NATO with security clearance

- **Company:** WLG
- **Location:** Eigenbrakel, Belgium
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer Networks, Network Topologies, Interoperability, Satcom
- **Published:** July 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.be/details/5821512341

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

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


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