2024-0105 Systems Engineer

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Vlissingen, Nederland Park Lane Recruitment Voltijd
Deadline Date: Thursday 6 June 2024
 
Requirement: Systems Engineer (Innovation)
 
Location: The Hague, NETHERLANDS
 
Full Time On-Site: Yes
 
Time On-Site: 100%
 
Not to Exceed Rate: 
  • 2024 Base: 2,790 EUR / Sprint (Total NTE 78,120 EUR / 28 Sprints)
  • The 2025, 2026 and 2027 Options: Up to maximum of 48 sprints per year option (Price per sprint will be determined by applying the price adjustment formula)
 
Period of Performance: 
2024 BASE: As soon as possible not later than 22nd July 2024 – 31st December 2024 with possibility to exercise the following options:
  • 2025 Option: 1st January 2025 until 31st December 2025;
  • 2026 Option: 1st January 2026 until 31st December 2026;
  • 2027 Option: 1st January 2027 until 31st December 2027
Start date is as soon as possible but not later than 22nd July 2024
 
Required Security Clearance: 
  • The security classification of the service will be up to NATO SECRET
  • The contractors is required to hold a valid NATO SECRET security clearance
 
Introduction:
NCI Agency is looking for a Systems Engineer to support Allied Command Transformation (ACT) Science and Technology (S&T) PoW activities in the area of cloud automation technology and exercises in 2024.  Furthermore, the resource will also support the Agency’s multinational project in the area of remote interoperability test facility.
The NCI Agency, as the main ICT service provider in NATO and the main technical entity providing subject matter expertise in the domain of cloud automation under the technical programmes of work with NATO ACT. The candidate will provide technical support and expertise to the ACT Science and Technology Programme of Work project that is being executed by Chief Technology Office Innovating Team.
 
Objectives:
NCI Agency is contributing to the ACT’s S&T experimentation participate in designing and automating the deployment of multiple NATO C2 applications in a combined public and private cloud environment. Candidate will have the opportunity to implement CI/CD best practices and automation in a multi‐cloud context leveraging an open source stack. The candidate is also expected to influence the deployment and automation strategy and implement their ideas with a focus on abstracting the infrastructure and platform services from application developers.
Furthermore, the candidate will provide technical expertise to the Agency’s multinational project in the area of secure communications interoperability specifications. In this context, the candidate will have the opportunity to design and build landing zones in a cloud environment to enable interoperability testing. The candidate will have the opportunity to participate in standards setting processes and implementing testing environments in the domain of network security.
 
Scope of Work:
Under the direction / guidance of the NCIA Point of Contact or delegated staff, the Systems Engineer (Innovation) engineer will support building the remote interoperability test facility.
This includes the following activities:
  • Support NCI Agency in the NATO Programmes of Work with ACT in the area of cloud automation technologies.
  • Support NCI Agency’s multinational project in the area of secure communications interoperability standards. Act as a work package lead to track progress of the technical work in the work package.
  • Provide technical support to NATO exercises and associated events organized by NATO bodies and the Agency.
  • Collaborate to the development of software automation code using Terraform, Ansible and/or Helm for the events Innovation Continuum 2024 and CWIX.
  • Perform cloud administration tasks on an AWS account based on GitOps, and on multiple Microsoft Azure tenants.
  • Collaborate to the planning and organisational aspects for the upcoming experimentations.
  • Participate to the bi‐weekly project meetings held in the NCI Agency in The Hague either online  or face to face.
  • The contractor will be part of a team and will provide the service using an Agile and iterative approach during multiple sprints. Each sprint is planned for a duration of 1 week. The content and scope of each sprint will be agreed during the sprint‐planning meeting.
Coordination and Reporting:
The contractor shall participate in daily status update meetings, sprint planning, sprint retrospectives and other meetings, physically in the office, or in person via electronic means using Conference Call capabilities, according to project manager’s instructions.
For each sprint to be considered as complete and payable, the contractor must report the outcome of his/her work during the sprint, first verbally during the retrospective meeting and then in written within three (3) days after the sprint’s end date. The format of this report shall be a short email to the NCIA Point of Contact mentioning briefly the work held and the development achievements during the sprint.
 
Security:
  • The security classification of the service will be up to NATO SECRET.
  • The contractors is required to hold a valid NATO SECRET security clearance
 
Practical Arrangements:
  • The contractor will be required to provide the service on‐site in The Hague. Access to the NCI Agency NATO Software Factory platform will be provided in coordination with the NCIA Point of Contact or delegated staff.
  • The contractor may be required to travel to NCI Agency, Brussels, Belgium and other sites within NATO for completing these tasks. Travel expenses will be reimbursed to the individual directly (outside this contract) under NATO rules.
  • Travel expenses will be reimbursed in accordance with Article 5.5 of AAS+ Framework Contract
  • This service must be accomplished by ONE contractor.
Requirements
 
Qualifications:
The consultancy support for this work requires a systems engineer with the following qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. At least 6 years of relevant professional experience.
  • Deep knowledge and demonstrable experience in IT automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools in cloud environments, such as Ansible, Terraform, and Helm.
  • Experience with containerization technologies and orchestrators, such as Docker, Podman, and
  • Kubernetes/OpenShift.
  • Familiarity with DevOps practices, tools and methodologies.
  • Proven experience with Linux and Windows system administration.
  • Strong knowledge of one or more cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI.
  • Deep understanding of cloud architecture principles particularly in setting up landing zones and cloud network design
  • Excellent understanding of networking concepts and cloud networking technologies.
  • Experience with cryptographic elements: Key management (PKI), encryption algorithms (AES) and encryption in transit (TLS) Documentation skills, with the ability to create detailed technical specifications and architecture diagrams.
Preferred qualifications:
  • Extensive knowledge of AWS or Microsoft Azure. Related Professional Cloud Certifications are desirable.
  • Experience in AWS edge devices (e.g., Snow family) or Microsoft Azure (e.g., Azure Stack Hub).
  • Working in an international environment comprising both military and civilian elements.
  • Experience working with standards organizations and/or open source software maintenance.
  • Configure and maintain network security controls, including firewalls, VPNs, and access control lists (ACLs).
  • Implement and manage cryptographic elements like PKI, digital certificates, and encryption algorithms (AES).
  • Experience in multi‐cloud deployments.

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