About this job

Sapienza Consulting is recruiting a NATO Enterprise PKI Technology Survey to join NATO – NCIA in The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands.

Responsibilities

The contracted individuals must be able to perform effectively and efficiently with minimal supervision. The deliverables that are worked on as part of this work are:

• A complete survey findings report for NATO Enterprise PKI technology and its use including but not limited to the following items per NATO Enterprise Entity in scope:
  • Identification of PKI service-enabling technology currently deployed including but not limited to Certification Authorities and Registration Authorities
  • Identification of the software and hardware products used for PKI service-enabling technology including brands and models of smartcards
  • Identification of PKI services including certificate management, registration, certification revocation and certification validation (HTTP, OCSP) including CRL repositories and trust model management
  • Identification of certificate intended usage (e.g., encryption, authentication, digital signatures)
  • Identification of the number of certificates issued per certificate intended usage
  • Identification of the inventory of the system and application services, users and devices that are issued certificates including the certificate intended usage
  • Identification of certificate profiles deployed
  • Identification of future requirements including but not limited to PKI services, certificate intended usage, certificate profile and interoperability
• Related PKI information captured from current and future FMN spiral descriptions, as well as a comparison of this information to the survey findings

Profile

• The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
• The candidates must be able to demonstrate experience with PKI and cryptographic concepts, technologies and products.
• The candidates must have a proactive attitude with respect to stakeholder engagement, as the work requires substantial interactions with stakeholders across the NATO Enterprise in order to capture the required survey information. For a number of the NATO entities within scope, the most relevant stakeholder may still need to be identified within the entity by the candidates when the survey work starts
• The candidates must have specific experience with performing technology surveys
• The candidates must be able to demonstrate experience in drafting survey reports
• Detailed understanding of NATO PKI, NATO CIS security and/or NATO security services use across NATO Enterprise is highly desirable