Infrastructure Engineer

Duties

• Contributes to the development of infrastructure architectures.
• Identifies and evaluates alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.
• Documents architecturally significant decisions.
• Produces specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers and interfaces, for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products.
• Supports projects or change initiatives through the preparation of technical plans and application of design principles.
• Aligns solutions with enterprise and solution architecture standards (including security).
• Follows agreed standards and applies appropriate techniques to elicit and document detailed requirements.
• Reviews requirements for errors and omissions.
• Provides input to the requirements base-line.
• Ensures projects are carried out in accordance with agreed architectures, standards, methods and tools and addresses security and privacy requirements.

Requirement

• Contributes to the development of infrastructure architectures.
• Identifies and evaluates alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.
• Documents architecturally significant decisions.
• Produces specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers and interfaces, for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products.
• Supports projects or change initiatives through the preparation of technical plans and application of design principles.
• Aligns solutions with enterprise and solution architecture standards (including security).
• Follows agreed standards and applies appropriate techniques to elicit and document detailed requirements.
• Reviews requirements for errors and omissions.
• Provides input to the requirements base-line.
• Ensures projects are carried out in accordance with agreed architectures, standards, methods and tools and addresses security and privacy requirements.
• The service contractor will be required to have experience in distributed technical environments and modern platform delivery practices, notably:
• Cloud platforms and hybrid environments, including Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, and containerized deployment models.
• Networking, secure connectivity, and infrastructure constraints relevant to NATO environments.
• DevOps tooling, CI/CD platforms such as GitLab, and infrastructure automation.
• Site and deployment engineering.
• Lab and simulation environment support.
• Tool administration and engineering support for MBSE and related engineering environments.
• The service contractor will be required to have a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree at a nationally recognised/certified university in a technical subject with substantial Information Technology (IT) content and 3 years post-related experience.
• As an exception, the lack of a university degree may be compensated by the demonstration of a candidate's particular abilities or experience that are of interest to the NCI Agency; namely, at least 5 years of extensive and progressive experience in the duties related to the functions of this post.
• Required Security Clearance: NATO Secret.

Preferences

• Prior experience of working in an international environment comprising both military and civilian elements.
• Knowledge of NATO organization, internal structure and resultant relationships.