Overview
The role of Engineer (Digital Infrastructure) involves providing guidance on security controls, designing system components, and provisioning, configuring, and maintaining infrastructure services. The purpose is to support NATO's Digital Endeavour by transforming IT services.
Key Responsibilities
- Provides guidance on the application and operation of elementary physical, procedural and technical security controls.
- Explains the purpose of security controls and performs security risk and business impact analysis for medium complexity information systems.
- Designs system components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology.
- Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs.
- Provides technical expertise to enable the configuration of system components and equipment for systems testing.
- Collaborates with technical teams to develop and agree system integration plans and report on progress.
- Provisions/installs, configures and maintains infrastructure services and components.
- Monitors, measures and reports on infrastructure load, performance and security events.
- Monitors operational systems for resource usage and failure rates, to inform and facilitate system software tuning.
- Applies system software parameters to maximise throughput and efficiency.
- Prepares and maintains operational procedures for storage management.
- Monitors capacity, performance, availability and other operational metrics.
- Periodically provides on demand support outside of business hours that could require working on site.
- Deputizes for head IIS section, if required.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 2 years post-related experience.
- At least 2 years practical experience in the designing, implementing, and managing the underlying technology, software and hardware components that ensure the smooth functioning of servers, storage systems, data centers, and cloud services.
- Practical experience troubleshooting infrastructure related issues, perform regular maintenance.
Qualifications
- A minimum requirement of a Bachelor’s degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline.
- Or exceptionally, the lack of a university degree may be compensated by the demonstration of a candidate’s particular abilities or experience that is/are of interest to NCIA, that is, at least 6 years extensive and progressive expertise in duties related to the function of the post.
