About this job

Sapienza Consulting, a tpgroup company, is recruiting a System Administrator with “Linux/Solaris” specialisation to join NATO – NCIA in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Responsibilities

The HQ is looking for someone to support their process of accrediting a large number of software applications and systems. They have a large number to tackle, plus new capabilities come online all the time.

The specific tasks identified for the role, and associated skill/knowledge requirements, are as follows:

• As a member of the Technical Management team, the SME will be required to support engineering and production infrastructure including but not limited to hardware, Linux/Solaris operating systems, networking, security, storage
• Hardware installation (cabling, racking, labelling, upgrading, maintaining, troubleshooting…)
• UNIX system administration (Installation, patching, administration, tuning, configuration, hardening/securing, troubleshooting)

The successful candidate will work on site at NAEW&C Force HQ in Geilenkirchen under the direction of the Head of the CIS Support Squadron or designated Section Chief

Deployment Requirements

• The incumbent will be required to forward deploy to NAEW&C Force Forward Operating or Logistics bases part of non-operational support activities, and may be required to deploy on NATO Operations
• Travel will be at a minimum of 5 days’ Notice to Move (NTM)
• Deployment on NATO operations would be for no more than 30 calendar days
• Travel on non-operational deployment may be for more than 30 calendar days, in agreement between the incumbent

On Call Requirements

The incumbent is required to provide stand-by support as part of a rota with other NAEWC Force CIS Squadron Staff.

• For UNIX Sys admin – out of five persons there will be 2 contractors
• When on-call contractors will be expected to be available at 2 hrs notice to provide out of hours support onsite at NAEW&C Force Geilenkirchen
• Compensation for Contractors will match existing policy for NATO B-Grades
• Current provision is calls for compensation of 1 additional day (7.6 hours) per one week (7 days) of stand-by duties

Special Terms and Conditions

• The contractor will be responsible for complying with the respective national requirements for working permits, visas, taxes social security etc. whilst working on site at NAEW&CF, Geilenkirchen, DEU
• No special status is either conferred or implied by the host organisation, NAEW&C Force on to the contractor whilst working on site

Profile

• Required Security Clearance: COSMIC TOP SECRET
• System Administrator with “Linux/Solaris” specialisation

Requested skills, competencies and toolset knowledge:

• Networking protocols & topologies (TCP/IP configuration and troubleshooting)
• Storage (SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel, NFS, ZFS – setup, install, …)
• Backup (configuration, administration, troubleshooting)
• Disaster Recovery (HW/OS/Storage – planning, implementation, testing, documenting
• Change/Configuration management
• Knowledge/expertise in the following areas is desirable in this role
• Sun Sparc and Intel hardware (servers, disk and tape storage)
• Solaris 10, ZFS, Linux
• iSCSI;l)
• SubVersion
• Oracle RDBMS
• Preference will be given to candidates with a demonstrated knowledge and experience of NAEW&C Force CIS Squadron organisation, procedures and IT Systems