Site Deployment Lead

Join the NATO IT Modernization (NITM) Programme and contribute to a high-impact international mission delivering secure, next-generation private cloud capabilities within NATO-secured environments. The Site Deployment Lead provides technical and operational leadership for the planning, readiness, coordination, execution, and acceptance of integrated infrastructure deployments at NATO locations. The position leads and coordinates the on-site physical and automated implementation of Platform, Network, Firewall, Backup & Recovery, IaaS, DevOps, and supporting enterprise capabilities. The Site Deployment Lead ensures solutions developed and integrated by the engineering organization are successfully installed, configured, integrated, validated, commissioned, and accepted at customer sites. The position is expected to be onsite 5 days a week at the Customer Site in The Hague, Netherlands, with frequent travel to NATO sites supporting implementation and deployment activities.

Lead planning, readiness, coordination, and execution of integrated infrastructure deployments at NATO customer sites. Develop and maintain site deployment plans, implementation schedules, readiness criteria, installation sequences, resource plans, deployment checklists, and completion criteria. Coordinate Platform, Network, Firewall, Backup & Recovery, IaaS, DevOps, cybersecurity, test, and other engineering disciplines throughout site implementation. Serve as the primary technical coordination point between on-site engineering teams, programme leadership, remote engineering teams, NATO customer stakeholders, and technical partners. Lead site readiness activities with NATO customer representatives and technical partners to verify facilities, rack space, power, cabling, network connectivity, IP addressing, equipment, software, credentials, certificates, security/access requirements, engineering documentation, and other technical prerequisites are complete prior to deployment. Conduct deployment readiness reviews with customer and engineering stakeholders and provide go/no-go recommendations based on completion of site prerequisites, engineering dependencies, resources, equipment, documentation, and implementation criteria. Provide technical leadership for the physical and automated implementation of site infrastructure, coordinating rack-and-stack, cabling, network connectivity, platform configuration, security integration, backup/recovery integration, automation execution, and technical validation activities. Validate implementation sequencing and dependencies between physical infrastructure, network connectivity, platform services, security controls, backup/recovery capabilities, automation workflows, and enterprise services. Coordinate installation, configuration, integration, testing, troubleshooting, commissioning, and customer acceptance activities. Ensure deployed infrastructure conforms to approved architectures, engineering designs, configuration standards, automation strategies, and NATO security requirements. Coordinate execution of deployment runbooks, build guides, implementation procedures, automation workflows, rollback procedures, and site acceptance activities. Lead daily deployment coordination meetings, technical status reviews, issue resolution, and prioritization of site activities. Identify and manage deployment risks, technical blockers, cross-functional dependencies, resource constraints, and schedule impacts, escalating issues to engineering and programme leadership as required. Coordinate with the Test organization to ensure deployed capabilities are ready for integration testing, technical validation, and customer acceptance. Track deployment activities, issues, dependencies, risks, blockers, and completion criteria within Jira and programme delivery tools. Coordinate defect and issue resolution with on-site and remote engineering teams during deployment. Maintain accurate deployment status, configuration