About this job

Sapienza Consulting, a Serco company, is recruiting a JTS/FAST Database Analyst to join NATO – NCIA in The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands.

The NATO Information and Communication Agency (NCI Agency) located in The Hague, The Netherlands, is currently involved in the development of new capabilities for NATO as well as in the support of existing capabilities. In the light of these activities, the Command and Control Centre is looking for ONE Database Analyst.

More specifically, the work will support the full software development cycle of the NATO Joint Targeting System (JTS) and Functional Area Services for dynamic and time-sensitive Targeting (FAST).

Responsibilities

Under the direction/guidance of a solution architect and test director, the database analyst will analyse the current Oracle RDBMS architecture, the way it’s used and implemented, providing a detailed analysis on the possible alternatives. This includes the following activities:

• Analyse the current Oracle implementation
• Define a list of possible alternatives to Oracle, considering the following aspects:
  • Compatibility with current architectures
  • Need to minimize software changes
  • Scalability, supportability, performance
  • Security and vendor patching life cycle
  • Attitude to containerization and compatibility with Kubernetes
  • Attitude to automatic deployments
• Develop/update the analysis study and supporting documentation
• As feasible, provide identified solution existing examples or develop locally a proof of concept
• Attend virtual and in-person meetings
• The development/testing work will be carried out accessing on site engineering/test facilities in the laboratories at NCI Agency The Hague. These facilities consists of all necessary development platforms, servers, web servers, etc. to support development and testing. The contractor shall update the status of the JTS/FAST analysis tasks in Jira. Work will be conducted locally in The Hague in JTS/FAST development lab

The contractor will be part of a team (project manager, technical lead, software developers, etc.) geographically distributed and will work using an Agile and iterative approach using multiple sprints.

Profile

The consultancy support for this work requires a database analyst / system engineer with the following qualifications:

• The candidate has a NATO SECRET security clearance, provided by the national security organization valid at the time of submission of the bid covering the period of the requirement
• The candidate has relevant and recent experience in Open Source and commercial database solutions and architectures.
• The candidate has relevant and recent experience in Oracle RDBMS deployments and architectures
• The candidate has relevant and recent experience in using Oracle LINUX and/or Red Hat RHEL as OS for the database deployments
• The candidate has relevant and recent experience in deploying database solutions in microservices and using Kubernetes (K8S).
• The candidate has relevant and recent experience in working with a software development team
• The candidate has relevant and recent experience in documenting source code, design architectures and technical documentation
• The candidate is able to speak and write fluent English since the work is conducted in English
• The candidate must have the nationality of one of the NATO nations

Practical experience in the following areas is also desired:

• The candidate has relevant and recent experience in verifying functional and non-functional requirements (e.g. development and execution of test cases, test data, etc.).