Senior Cyber Security Specialist 5

At least 5 years practical technical (hands-on) experience in cyber security or related field, such as developing and maintaining cyber security solution architecture, developing or delivering capabilities and services in the area of Cyber security, or complex and demanding technical environments

The individual shall possess a broad understanding of cyber security tools and their configuration, including the configuration and integration of boundary protection components such as firewalls, network traffic aggregators, Network Intrusion Prevention / Detection Systems, Host Intrusion Prevention Systems, data diodes, encryption technologies, identity and access management, monitoring and detection solutions, incident response, vulnerability assessment, computer forensics and risk management

The contracted individual shall have recent and relevant experience with technologies and tools including Juniper, Palo Alto, web application proxy solutions, Splunk, Tenable.SC, Nessus and Fidelis. The individual shall also have experience in the design and configuration of IT infrastructure elements within projects, including routing, switching and virtualisation technologies such as VMware

The individual shall have experience delivering technical systems or cyber security capabilities into operational environments, including installation, configuration, testing, documentation, and handover to operations for industry, government or military organisations, including deployment to operational military areas. Experience with implementation projects within NATO and/or national military organisations is desirable. The individual shall be capable of working independently and as part of a team to achieve agreed objectives, including the ability to monitor, coordinate and support industry teams. Excellent communication and technical writing skills in English are required

Desirable Qualifications/Experience

Experience in working for or supporting a military or governmental organization

Bachelor's degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline and 3 years post-related experience

Or exceptionally, the lack of a university degree may be compensated by the demonstration of a candidates particular abilities or experience that is/are of interest to NCIA, that is, at least 10 years extensive and progressive expertise in duties related to those in this Statement of Work

DUTIES/ROLE

Delivery planning and coordination

Documenting planned deliverables / changes (System Design Specifications, Change requests, Services requests, A2SL processes)

Facilitating approval of planned changes throughout NCIA and NCSC Change management process, project team and internal NCSC meetings

Coordinating NCSC other than NCSC business lines to deliver prerequisites required for cyber security physical and virtual installations

Activities coordination with project managers, system engineers, network engineers, security architects and operational stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of cyber security capabilities

Installation, configuration and testing of network tapping and aggregation equipment

Installation, configuration and testing of vulnerability assessment tools, including Tenable.SC and Nessus

Installation, configuration and testing of computer forensic tools, including Fidelis

Installation, configuration and testing of monitoring, detection and incident response tools, including Splunk

Installation, configuration and testing of virtualisation and networking technologies

Implementation and validation of security settings across network equipment (Cisco, Juniper) and operating system (Linux and Microsoft) environments

Investigation of technology errors, network faults, performance issues, including the development and implementation of proposed improvements

Support to the integration of cyber security tools into existing and future NATO CIS environments

Ensuring that implemented solutions comply with applicable NATO security policies, operational requirements and agreed technical standards

Post-implementation, transition to operations and support activities

Documenting as-is cyber installations (in a form of System Implementation Specifications)

Conducting testing, validation and acceptance activities for deployed cyber security capabilities

Support to handover to operations, including knowledge transfer, training support and preparation of operational documentation

Development of broad range of technical documentation, including installation guides, configuration baselines, test plans, test reports, standard operating procedures and security hardening guides

Provision of technical advice and recommendations on cyber security architecture, tool configuration, system integ