Senior Cyberspace Engineer - Virginia Beach, United States - Spektrum

Description

Job Description

Spektrum have a wide range of exciting opportunities in several global locations.

We are always looking to add great new talent to our team and look forward to hearing from you.

Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO, UN, EU, and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services, specialised aerospace and defence sales, delivery, and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.

Who we are supporting
Allied Command Transformation (ACT) is NATO's leading agent for change: driving, facilitating, and advocating the continuous improvement of Alliance capabilities to maintain and enhance the military relevance and effectiveness of the Alliance. The main objectives of ACT are: providing appropriate support to NATO missions and operations; leading NATO military transformation; and improving relationships, interaction, and practical cooperation with partners, nations, and international organizations. ACT therefore leads Alliance concept development, capability development, training, and lessons-learned initiatives and provides unfettered military support to policy development within NATO.

The program
Capability Development & Management Support (CDMS)
DCOS Capability Development (CAPDEV) acts as the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation's Director for guidance, direction, and coordination of the activities and resources of the Capability Development Directorate. CAPDEV is responsible to:

Identify and prioritize Alliance capability shortfalls from short to long term, along a continuum of holistic capability development.

Lead the determination of required capabilities and prioritization of shortfalls to inform the delivery of materiel and non-materiel solutions across the Doctrine, Organisation, Training, Material, and Leadership, Personnel, Facilities, and Interoperability (DOTMLPFI) lines of effort to enable a holistic approach to capability development, ensuring improved interoperability, deployability and sustainability of Alliance Forces.

Role Background
The exploitation of cyberspace as a domain of operations presents an increasingly growing challenge for the Alliance, requiring new strategies, concepts, architectures, processes, and capabilities to enable NATO to defend itself in cyberspace as effectively as it does in the physical domains. Gaining the ability to plan, assess, and conduct military operations in cyberspace requires the development of new concepts and capabilities, notably in the area of cyberspace resilience, mission assurance, situational awareness, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) or C3 (Command, control, and consultation).

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Based on the literature review (including results of studies conducted by ACT), as well as additional guidance from Cyberspace Branch Subject Matters Experts (SMEs), develop a plan to operationalize the Cyberspace Situational Awareness (CySA) concept in support of capability development efforts.

• Provide support to update existing CySA concept, as necessary.

• Based on the experience with CySA concept operationalization, develop plans and procedures that will support future concept operationalization efforts within the cyberspace domain.

• Maintain relevant Communities of Interest (NATO, nations, industry, and Academia) and organize/coordinate workshops dedicated to the operationalization of CySA concept to share drafts and collect inputs from stakeholders.

• Support the definition of Information Exchange Requirements (IERs), their staffing, and approval process through the NATO Governance bodies.

• Draft relevant architectures in support of concept definition and solicitation to other stakeholders within the Alliance.

• Support operationalization of the concepts by acting as an SME during requirements definition (development of Capability Requirements Brief [CRB]) and project programming phase (through Capability Programme Plan [CPP]).

• Prepare relevant briefing materials, as required, and deliver presentations.

• Support and contribute to other warfare development activities related to the concept areas (feasibility studies, experimentation, contribution to other concepts, etc.).

• Support and contribute to capability development activities related to the concept areas: capability requirements identification and definition across all aspects of DOTMLPFI, Analyses of Alternatives (AoA), etc.

• Directly support the Branch Head/Technical Director/Section Heads and travel to meetings and conferences both within and outside NATO's boundaries for up to 30 days per year, as required.

• Performs additional tasks, related to the contract, as required by the COTR.

Essential Qualifications:

• Familiar with the concept development and operationalization processes. Minimum of 4 years of experience in the implementation of scientific concepts and prototype development. At least 2 of those years should be in the role of lead architect.

• Demonstrated ability and recent experience (less than two years old) in the implementation of military-focused and/or cyberspace concepts, especially related to cyberspace situational awareness.

• Practical and recent (less than two years old) experience with architecture drafting, preferably using NATO Architectural Framework (NAF) or similar standard (e.g. TOGAF).

• Knowledge of NATO or similar International Organisation structure, including its capability development processes and procedures.

• Demonstrated experience in cooperative, distributed document development. This should include managing the refinement process, versioning, comment resolution, and stakeholder management. Preferably within the concept project life cycle.

• Demonstrated ability and recent experience in the process of planning, facilitation, and executing workshops for various stakeholders including governmental agencies, Academia, and industry.

• Administrative and office environment experience including experience with MS Office applications.

Education

• Master's degree or similar national academic qualification in computer science, network security, cyber-security, or any related field. Can be substituted with a Bachelor's Degree and 5 years of experience in a relevant field.

Working Location

• Virginia Beach, VA, USA

Working Policy

• Onsite

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO personal security clearance

Language

• Professional English - Demonstrated proficiency in English as defined in STANAG 6001 (Standardized Linguistic Profile (SLP Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing) or equivalent.

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