MISP Platform Engineer (System Administration, Ansible and Automation) for NATO with security clearance

• Proactively managing and maintaining the servers behind the platform, with the confidentiality, integrity and availability the information demands
• Standing up, configuring and running dedicated instances in support of exercises
• Keeping the software current and supporting the test and validation work behind change management
• Configuring and extending the monitoring around every installation
• Maintaining the Ansible playbooks that build and configure it all
• Writing and improving the documentation, and keeping it worth reading
• Being the expert the internal communities come to on deployment architectures - what each one buys you and what it costs
• Developing and maintaining Python scripts that automate the platform and integrate it with the systems around it, including security monitoring and detection
• Supporting quality management by creating and maintaining content quality rules
• Supporting the user community - regular feedback normally, daily feedback during exercises
• Leading a team of platform operators during exercises, where the need and your own strengths suit it, covering information flow, quality control and user management
• Streamlining and automating user management across service management and identity tooling such as Cerebrate or Keycloak
• Planning, preparing and delivering online training, and helping build the individual training packages that prove the objectives were met
• Coordinating the work of a small group of engineers

• At least ten years of practical experience across the areas below
• Architecting deployment solutions
• Coordinating the work of a small engineering group
• System administration on LAMP servers - Linux, Apache, MySQL or MariaDB, PHP
• Configuring web applications, and scripting in Python
• Building and reviewing MVC web applications, mainly in PHP with SQL behind them
• A good grasp of security principles, practice, concepts and technology
• The ability to work alone and in a team, including monitoring and supporting the people around you
• Excellent organisation, communication and analysis
• A real technical understanding of the threats web-based products face
• Professional English
• A bachelor’s degree in a related discipline with three years of related experience - or, exceptionally, ten years of progressive expertise in this kind of work

Nice to have

• Administering a threat-sharing platform in production
• Writing code for one, in Python or PHP
• Red Hat experience, and an RHCSA or similar certification
• Work with open-source communities
• Multinational cyber exercises
• CakePHP