[6170] Chief Technician

Start date: Negotiable
Clearance: NATO Cosmic Top Secret or equivalent
Location: Brunssum, NL

Requirements:
• Must have experience within the profile of computer science or information technology
• Ability to analyse unusual maintenance complex problems
• Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of the following related topics: 2-Tier Leaf-and-Spine Data Center Architecture; Hyper converged infrastructure and virtualization technologies; Cloud services to include Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions; TCP/IP addressing and subnetting covering both Local and Wide Area Networking; Link encryption devices for IP-based computer networks; Data at rest encryption solutions for classified and sensitive data protection; Switching and Routing protocols and techniques including Voice over IP technology and Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) for bare metal network switches; Information Assurance techniques including firewalls, antivirus protection, data loss prevention, intrusion detection prevention systems solutions
• Sound experience of administering Microsoft Servers including Active Directory, Distributed File System, Windows deployment techniques, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), administration automation with PowerShell scripting, Exchange Mail Server
• Deployment of NATO Functional Area Services including Geospatial services
• Microsoft SQL Server Administration knowledge (installation, configuration, maintenance, backup policies)
• Knowledge of networking, infrastructure, and security services, including DNS, DHCP, WSUS, GPOs, networking fundamentals, load balancing, PKI/certificates, and authentication concepts such as ADFS.
• Hardware and software configuration of Server hosting platforms, custom disk configurations with specific storage controllers, RAID configuration, redundancy and safety approach in all levels of designing in implementing of the solutions.
• Must have excellent spoken and written English communication and presentation skills, as demonstrated by recent experience (within the past 5 years).
• Must have proficiency in the office Suite, Reporting tools.
• Must have excellent understanding and experience of network communication protocols TCP/IP, OSI layers, Firewalls and Security principles