Belgian Defence operates a large, distributed military organization with 10,000+ personnel and standing international deployments. The tech stack is anchored in enterprise infrastructure (Oracle, SharePoint, Active Directory, VMware) typical of large government IT, but pain points reveal active friction: legacy system transformation, cybersecurity guarantees for operations, and network integrity across deployed units dominate their challenge list. Hiring velocity is accelerating with security roles leading (18 open), followed by engineering and healthcare — a pattern consistent with modernization-first prioritization in a mission-critical environment.
Belgian Defence is the armed forces branch of the Belgian government, headquartered in Evere and maintaining approximately 1,000 personnel deployed internationally at any given time. The organization conducts peace-keeping and peace-making operations, humanitarian interventions, and disaster response in coordination with international partners. Operationally, Defence supports both field-deployed units and domestic support functions across security, engineering, healthcare, and data teams. The organization uses enterprise-grade infrastructure (Oracle databases, Windows/Linux servers, VMware virtualization, Active Directory, Talend for data integration) and is actively working through legacy system transformation and new system implementation to modernize its IT footprint.
Core: Oracle, SharePoint, Active Directory, Windows Server, VMware, Hyper-V. Development: Java, Python, Scala. Operations: PowerShell, WSUS, Linux. Data integration: Talend. Architectural planning: Enterprise Architect.
Yes. 36 active roles with 16 posted in the last 30 days. Security (18 roles) is the largest hiring focus, followed by engineering (6), healthcare (6), data (3), and ops (3). Velocity is accelerating.
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