[6470] Support System Engineering for Service Delivery

Start date: Negotiable
Clearance Required: NATO Secret
Location: Mons, Belgium

Requirements

Skills, Knowledge & Experience:

• The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
• Experienced system engineer with proven level 2/level 3 support roles in a multinational and/or military organisation of minimum 5 years in various roles (Windows Server Administration, Windows Client Administration, Active Directory Administration, Network Administrator, Virtualization, IIS web hosting, Linux hosting, Linux Administration, Ansible, Containerization)
• Microsoft SQL Server Administration knowledge (installation, configuration, maintenance, backup policies)
• Remote server administration
• Knowledge of DNS, DHCP, WSUS, GPOs
• MS SQL scripting knowledge, data consistency and data clean- up based on consultation with the user community and development team
• Azure Devops experience
• 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
• Very good virtualization skills, preferably on vmWare with System Center integration
• Good knowledge of Powershell scripting and/or Python
• xml file manipulation, xsds validation and maintenance and automation done through Powershell/scripting
• 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
• Must demonstrate the ability and self-motivation to work on his/her own but must also work well within groups as part of a team;
• Must demonstrate an ability and keen sense for problem-solving.
• Motivated, good communication skills, team player.
• Able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Knowledge of NATO responsibilities and organization.

Desirable:

• Desirable skills: previous knowledge of NATO FASes constitute and advantage
• Desirable experience in various areas of Software Engineering including: Software design, implementation and testing; Programming languages, techniques and methodologies associated with the duties described above; Very good knowledge of commonly used standards and best practices for software engineering, including design patterns
• Desirable knowledge/Exposure to technologies like WSO2, Kafka, Apache Camel, Redis, PostGres, Neo4J, Angular, Elastic Search, XSLT, OData; Java development; Agile software development methodologies
• Desirable: knowledge and experience in: Application server technologies; Multi-tiered, distributed systems; Service-Oriented Architectures; Relational data base management systems; Web authoring, design and administration tools
• Desirable: knowledge and experience in: C#, HTML5 and modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks, Web Services
• Desirable: previous experience in NATO, FAS support, software lifecycle support, knowledge of NATO policies and process


Specific Working Conditions: The contractor shall provide services On-site in SHAPE, Mons, Belgium. Exceptional off-site activities to support service delivery can also be arranged with the line manager's and IASB Branch Head's coordination and approval. There may be requirements to travel to other sites within NATO for completing these tasks

Duties:

The Engineer will have to resolve tickets covering a wide range of Level 2 and Level 3 activities, for example:
• Install, maintain, monitor and support the JSSC services (Intel- FS, ANB, Release Server, CoreGIS, HMART, CSD IPL/IWS, ICMT, AOSS, NAMIS, NABIS, REACT) mainly in support of Operations, Missions and NATO exercises.
• Provide timely response and resolution to all support tickets (incidents, service requests, changes, internal activities) following the internal processes
• Escalate issues to level 3 support team as appropriate, support in the troubleshooting and debugging of found issues (document and escalate trouble tickets from ITSM into Azure DevOps work items, as well as support in their resolution and testing)
• Offer Subject Matter Expertise for the JSSC applications to the user community and to COIs (supporting the Requests For Information)
• Get involved in User Acceptance Testing for new software releases in both organizing and test execution (supporting the Change Requests)
• Apply patches and install ISR software updates, coordinate outages (according to agreed Approved Service Interruptions, Security Audit Findings, regular software updates)
• Participate in NRF/ARF/Enterprise CABs as needed to support new software releases in the validation and verification process (support to Change Requests)
• Provide support in maintaining the NATO Software Factory infrastructure, user and rights management, software updates and internal activities
• Interface between JSSC applications and inter-operable FASes from other Business Areas
• Participates in on-call support. He/she also adheres to flexible 8 hrs/5 days a week shifts, which may be scheduled on-demand based on operational needs. This scheduling flexibility ensures that the duty activities can start earlier or later in a day, providing consistent and adaptable support in alignment with the organization's requirements;