About this job

Sapienza Consulting is recruiting an IVVQ-TVVS Technician (Test Lab Administrator) to join NATO – NCIA in Mons, Wallonia, Belgium.

Responsibilities

The Independent Verification, Validation and Quality (IVVQ) organizational element is responsible for the agency-wide governance of all verification and validation aspects across the full service and capability life-cycle; and, for the provision of IVVQ services and facilities to support other service lines and programme offices in IVVQ-related activities such as quality and change management.

The Testing Verification and Validation (TVV) Service Management Branch is responsible for the provision and management of all facilities and infrastructure related to verification, validation, change evaluation, experimentation and simulation.

• Operate and maintain IVVQ test and reference environments
• Configuring these environments in preparation for test events
• Ensuring that environments comply with NATO security requirements, including up to date patch and update levels
• Ensuring that reference environments replicate production environments to ensure that test activities are conducted in a suitable environment
• Provide support for IVVQ activities in the NCIA Change Manage Process
• Support projects in test and reference environments preparation leading up to a test event

Profile

• A currently active NATO SECRET security clearance

Required:

• At least 5 years post related experience, and in particular
• Providing and operating Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) based on VMWare products (VSAN)
• Maintenance (configure, troubleshoot, patch, update and upgrade) of Microsoft Windows server based domains
• Managing and implementing security settings, Security policies and security guidance for Linux and Microsoft OS and Microsoft products
• Configuring services based on WSUS, MECM (former SCCM), McAfee ePO
• Operate and maintain the backup and restore solutions, such as Veeam
• Experience on maintaining and operating storage solutions, such as NFS and MSA

Desired:

• Experience with CI/CD processes
• Hands on experience with private, public and hybrid cloud environments
• Hands on experience using configuration management tools, such as Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform