Automatic Deployment Engineer

AUTOMATIC DEPLOYMENT ENGINEER/IV&V/NATO/POWERSHELL/VMWARE/MICROSOFT/UNIX/CONTRACT/SC CLEARED

RATE: €500-575
LOCATION: HAGUE
DURATION:6 months (Initially)

The Role:

This position will help define the framework and architecture used to enable the automated deployment of virtual machines, Servers, services and their configuration. As part of the effort, an evaluation will be conducted to understand the applicability of this concept to the
instantiation of a Mission Network scenario where all the infrastructure used for testing, HW (Virtual Servers, Clients ...), Applications (Core and Functional Services) can be generated automatically from a configuration control repository.

*The candidate will be working with the Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Reference environment system administrators improving the automation of IV&V Reference environments.

*The ideal candidate has a developer profile with interest in testing, automated deployment and network operations, or a sysadmin profile who has a passion for automating using Scripting and coding.

Approach

*Work under this Contract shall be conducted under the direction and co-ordination of the NCI Agency - NATO IV&V- based at the NCI Agency site in The Hague. The Contractor shall provide suitably experienced personnel who must be available for the duration of the contract, and be capable of working on this task on a full time basis.

Tasks

*Assist the NATO IV&V PM in a feasibility study to select the more suitable automatic deployment solutions currently available based on the agreed aspects with the PM, such as cost, maintainability, ease of use, platforms supported, and flexibility.

*As a result of the feasibility study a simple scenario will be selected and a proof-of concept mock-up will be built to demonstrate the main technologies utilised

*In a follow up contract, if applicable, it will Replicate an existing IT infrastructure utilising automated deployment tools and configurations, including virtual machines, Domain Controllers, mail, web, DNS Servers, applications, etc.

*Participate in the deployment of the solution to Interoperability exercises

*Produce a technical report with the main recommendations and lesson identified

*Document product used during the automated deployment and maintain scripts or configuration under configuration control

Skills Required:

* Analytical and problem solving skills.
* 2+ years of experience with VMware technologies
* 2 + years of experience with Microsoft Windows based deployments and cloud infrastructures.
* 4+ years of experience with Scripting in Bash, Python, Ruby, PowerShell, UNIX Shell Scripting and Perl.
* 4+ years of Practical knowledge of and experience with Ansible, Salt,
Puppet or Chef as IT Automation Frameworks or similar tools
* Ability to work in a team environment and individually on own initiative
* High competency of spoken and written English

2.4.2 Desirable:

* Microsoft system administration or network certifications
* Experience with system administration of Microsoft Active Directory
* Experience with system administration of Microsoft Exchange
* Experience with DNS, NTP, DHCP and related technologies
* Experienced with Solaris and Linux
* 5+ years of systems administration experience in Microsoft, Solaris and Unix environments
* 5+ years of experience of testing enterprise-level systems and services
* Experience in writing test related documents and reports

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