About this job

Sapienza Consulting, a Serco company, is recruiting a JTS/FAST Kubernetes Engineer 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 Kubernetes engineer.

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 Kubernetes engineer will contribute to the definition of the JTS/FAST Kubernetes microservices architecture and its automated deployment on the test environment. This includes the following activities:

• Define the Kubernetes (K8S) internal architecture with emphasis on the ‘ingress’ and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) management.
• Integrate JTS/FAST microservices by development of automatic pod deployments using best practices. The definition of the framework / COTS in support of these activities may require an analysis based on the ‘offline’ conditions required by the specific network environments
• Support the definition of scalability solutions and associated scripts
• Develop/update the K8S deployment and support documentation
• 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 development tasks in JIRA and test procedures and test results in Zephyr. 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 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 developing Kubernetes architectures and deployments
• The candidate has relevant and recent experience in DevOps automation (e.g. certification), especially in the Continuous Deployment aspects
• The candidate has relevant and recent experience in using Oracle LINUX and/or Red Hat RHEL as OS for Kubernetes deployments
• The candidates have relevant and recent experience in using development tools (e.g. Maven, Jira, Zephyr) and methodologies (e.g. Agile)
• The candidate has relevant and recent experience in working with a software development team
• The candidates have relevant and recent experience in documenting source code, design architecture 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.)