About this job

Sapienza Consulting, a tpgroup company, is recruiting a Technical Implementation Manager to join NATO – NCIA in Mons, Wallonia, Belgium.

Responsibilities

• Reporting to the NCIA Project Manager, and project representative at sites in scope
• Coordinate technical implementation activities at all sites in scope
• Co-ordinate the deployment of network security components (including Cisco Firepower NIPS and RSA NetWitness FPC) by third party engineers
• Ensure the accurate documentation of site deployment activities, and smooth transition of technical capabilities into Service Operations
• Co-ordinate with NATO entities to ensure supplier activities are delivered to expectations
• Coordinate with NATO Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) Service Delivery Management Section to ensure all components are correctly registered in the NCSC CMDB
• Provide periodic reporting (internal and external) and prepare ad hoc reports and assessments
• Assure timely delivery and high quality of deliverables
• Maintain communications with internal and external stakeholders
• The implementation at most sites will be for longer than one week – so the resource will be required to remain in location for the duration, and may transfer to the next site directly
• Tier-2 support at Mons during Tier-3 deployments may be required in support of implementation, configuration and testing tasks
• Step in as the project representative to resolve issues in aspects such as logistics, decommissioning, site access, change management etc

Profile

• Required Security Clearance: NATO Secret

Essential experience

• Experience of installation, implementation and testing of cyber security equipment, specifically CISCO Firepower Management Console, CISCO NIPS/NIDS, RSA NetWitness Full Packet Capture (FPC), IXIA Aggregators and Juniper firewall components
• Experience with the implementation of NATO or military communication and information systems
• A minimum of 3 (three) years of experience as an engineering team leader
• Experience of field deployment of NATO cyber infrastructure
• Experience of managing/co-ordinating third party engineers with field deployments at diverse locations
• Cable management; cable tracing; cable labelling; cable documentation
• Network documentation (Visio networking diagrams L2 and L3)
• Datacentre documentation (room layout, physical, logical configuration)
• Proven ability to operate on own initiative
• Proven ability to liaise with local site personnel (security, logistics, technicians, command)
• Domain knowledge in cyber security area in a leadership role
• Proven ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing with good briefing skills
• Experience with supporting Operational testing and service transition
• Experience in delivering training to L1 and L2 engineering support at remote sites

Desirable experience

• CISCO networking (nexus or catalyst)
• Juniper (srx) configuration (IPSEC VPN configuration in detail)
• Technical documentation writing (detailed state description of physical and logical configuration in datacentre environment)
• Certifications: Networking qualifications (Cisco, RSA etc.), ITIL foundation
• Linux experience
• Operations environment experience (processes in OPS)
• Change management processes (preferably NATO ITSM experience)