Infrastructure architecture engineer for nato with security clearance

This position is responsible for contributing to the development of infrastructure architectures within distributed technical environments. The role involves identifying and evaluating alternative architectures, assessing trade-offs in cost, performance, and scalability, and documenting architecturally significant decisions., * 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.

Required:

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. Desired:

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