AAS-C000699 - Engineer (Umbrella Management)(CTS), Mons - TUE 19th Oct

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DEADLINE DATE: TUESDAY 19th OCTOBER 2021
Requirement Title: Engineer (Umbrella Management)
Equivalent NATO Grade: A/85
IWC Work Location: Mons, BE
Full time on-site: Yes
Required Start Date: 22-NOV-2021
Total Scope of the request (hours): 632
Required Security Clearance: NATO Cosmic Top Secret

• Maintain the CA Spectrum instances on a day-to-day basis.
• Assist in the communication with sites for centralization, standardization and best practices.
• Perform resolution on WAN Element Management and Management System implementations.
• Perform installations and maintain operating systems, used to host the services provided by the Element Management team.
• Perform installations and maintain COTS Applications which are maintained within the Element Management team.
• Perform upgrades on COTS and FAS Applications according to the RFC procedures within the NCI Agency.
• Assist in performing the configuration and evaluation of test scenarios within the NSII lab environment.
• Assist in documentation preparation for design, configuration and maintenance activities.
• Assist in documentation preparation for WAN Element Management and Management System design, configuration and maintenance activities for all NATO exercise scenarios.
• Assist in the evaluation of management tools and capabilities for the different Cells, in collaboration with the peer cells.
• Assist in the coordination with all Cells to ensure a common understanding of the available toolsets and method of utilization.
• Assist with the training of users from the NSII Service Line as well as external DCIS customers.
• When required, assist in the coordination of on-site surveys, validations and system acceptance testing.
• Provide support for the Deployable CIS group and follow up support requests from these external groups.

Requirements:

• Required Security Clearance: NATO Cosmic Top Secret
• Experienced practical Routing and Switching technician who has worked on the Cisco Routing and Switching elements for a period of not less than 5 years.
• Additionally has at least 6 years of experience working in a centralized control centre.
• Good knowledge of Information Systems (IS) Engineering and the associated aspects.
• Knowledge of the principles of Command and Control (C2) Systems and the associated management expertise.
• Knowledge of design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance of modern communications management systems in a WAN environment.
• Awareness of recent technological developments in communication management systems and LAN/WAN environment.
• Knowledge of relational integrity and database design
• 8 years of experience in on-line performance, accounting, fault, security and configuration management of digital and analogue networks and associated transmission systems to include switching systems in support of voice and data transfer.
• Awareness of traffic analysis tools, such as Wireshark, tcpdump, Netscout nGeniusONE and protocols such as ipflow and netflow.
• Knowledge of Disaster Recovery, Storage, networking, Application lifecycles.
• Very good Knowledge on configuration and maintenance of the Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) 5.x and Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) 2.x software.
• Very good knowledge of the Intermapper configuration and maintenance components.
• Very good knowledge of configuration management concepts and components using HPE Network Automation 10.x and CA Spectrum 10.x.
• Very good knowledge of Splunk 6.x (and upwards) usage in order to troubleshoot Cisco ACS authentication issues.
• Very good knowledge (setup, configuration and maintenance) in CA Spectrum 10.x, CA NFA and CA Performance Centre, CA Unified Infrastructure Manager.
• Knowledge of traffic encryption technologies.
• At least 5 years of experience with Virtual Environments such as Vmware 6.x and above
• Knowledge of network management protocols, snmp, wmi, ssh, telnet
• Experience in network tap and probe technologies for network data collection on data centre
• Experiences in authorization and authentication policlies of network and system management devices.
• Knowledge of communications protocols and practical experience of using diagnostic test equipment.
• Experience of software maintenance procedures.
• Experience in Site and Systems Evaluation and Inspection.
• A basic understanding of the concept of QoS in IP-Networks.
• In-depth configuration and management Windows Server version: 2008, 2012, 2016 platforms. Including knowledge of Active Directory, WSUS and SCCM.
• Basic understanding of OSPF and BGP.
• Experience of preparing technical documentation and Standard Operating Procedures.
• DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS
• Specializations:
• Five years experience in all aspects of maintenance, repair, modification and operation of large communications networks and related equipment.
• Specific Experience: Experience of systems implementations within the NATO / multinational environment.
• General understanding of related communications systems and techniques of BME, ATM, Frame relay, Voice and VOIP technology.
• Familiarity with military voice and data systems.
• Knowledge of communications protocols and practical experience of using communications diagnostic tests and test equipment.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory and the underlying technical principles.
• Knowledge and experience with IP packet encryption.
• Understanding of Firewall Technology.
• Awareness of Net

Benefits:
Required Security Clearance: NATO Cosmic Top Secret

Job Type: Full-time

Work Location: Multiple Locations