Cyberspace Senior Engineer

Cyberspace Senior Engineer

Working Location: Norfolk, , VA, USA

Security Clearance: NATO Secret/ National Secret

Language: High proficiency level in English language

DESCRIPTION:

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 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).

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION:

Essential Qualifications/Experience:

Master s degree or similar national academic qualification in computer science, network security, cyber-security or any related field OR Bachelor s degree and 5 years of experience in relevant field

Familiar with the concept development and operationalization processes with minimum of 4 years of experience in the implementation of scientific concepts and prototypes development (at least 2 of those years should be in a role of lead architect).

Demonstrated ability and recent experience (in the last 2 years) in the implementation of military-focused and/or cyberspace concepts, especially related to cyberspace situational awareness

Practical and recent (in the last 2 years) experience with architecture drafting, preferably using NATO Architectural Framework (NAF) or similar standard (e.g., TOGAF)

Knowledge of NATO or similar International Organization structure, including its capability development processes and procedures

Demonstrated experience in cooperative, distributed document development, including management of 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

DUTIES/ROLE:

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 effort within cyberspace domain

Maintain relevant Communities of Interest (NATO, nations, industry, and Academia) and

organize/coordinate workshops dedicated to operationalization of CySA concept to share drafts and

collect inputs from stakeholders

Support 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.)

1Support 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