Application Migration Engineer

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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 

The NATO Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) is responsible for providing secure and effective communications and information technology (IT) services to NATO's member countries and its partners. The agency was established in 2012 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

The NCIA provides a wide range of services, including:

• Cyber Security: The NCIA provides advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect NATO's communication networks and information systems against cyber threats.
• Command and Control Systems: The NCIA develops and maintains the systems used by NATO's military commanders to plan and execute operations.
• Satellite Communications: The NCIA provides satellite communications services to enable secure and reliable communications between NATO forces.
• Electronic Warfare: The NCIA provides electronic warfare services to support NATO's mission to detect, deny, and defeat threats to its communication networks.
• Information Management: The NCIA manages NATO's information technology infrastructure, including its databases, applications, and servers.

Overall, the NCIA plays a critical role in ensuring the security and effectiveness of NATO's communication and information technology capabilities.

The program

Assistance and Advisory Service (AAS)

The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) is NATO’s principal C3 capability deliverer and CIS service provider. It provides, maintains and defends the NATO enterprise-wide information technology infrastructure to enable Allies to consult together under Article IV, and, when required, stand together in the face of attack under Article V.

To provide these critical services, in the modern evolving dynamic environment the NCI Agency needs to build and maintain high performance-engaged workforce. The NCI Agency workforce strategically consists of three major categorise's: NATO International Civilians (NIC)'s, Military (Mil), and Interim Workforce Consultants (IWC)'s. The IWCs are a critical part of the overall NCI Agency workforce and make up approximately 15 percent of the total workforce.

Role Background

The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) is currently moving users and workloads to the public cloud. The NCI Agency Chief Technology Office - Cloud Centre of Excellence (CTO-CCoE) provides guidance and support to this project. One of the work packages in this project is migrating applications and services from on premise environments across the NATO Enterprise to the cloud. The CTO-CCoE is leading the guidance for the migration and offering Subject Matter Expert (SME) support to facilitate this service/application migration process. The CTO-CCoE is looking for a contractor to provide Cloud Engineering services to support the CTO-CCoE team. The contractor should have a strong background on migration applications to the cloud.

Role Duties and Responsibilities

Under the direction / guidance of the NCIA Point of Contact or delegated staff, they will provide Application Migration Engineering services support the CTO-CCoE and application teams to plan and execute the migration of services and application to the cloud. This includes the following activities:

Application Assessment and Analysis:

• Engage with application owners and stakeholders to perform technical analysis of the applications to be migrated.
• Support application owners and stakeholders to gather requirements and expectations as well as application complexity and priority.
• Support the development of Application Assessment Reports for each application.

Technical Planning and Execution:

• Advise application owners and stakeholders on possible migration options.
• Support application teams to design how their applications are to be deployed in the cloud.
• Support technical planning and execution of application migrations.
• Support the applications team’s engineers and developers to execute migration plans.
• Support application teams to design and develop automation for the deployment of their applications into the cloud.

Testing and Validation:

• Advise application teams on the development and execution of comprehensive testing plans to validate application functionality post-migration.
• Advise application teams on post migration performance testing to ensure applications meet required SLAs and performance benchmarks.
• Support application teams to address and resolve any issues identified during testing.

Data Migration and Integrity:

• Design and support the migration of application data to the cloud, taking into account data integrity, security, and compliance throughout the migration process.
• Design and support data validation and reconciliation processes to verify successful data migration.

Security and Compliance:

• Advise application teams to ensure applications adhere to security best practices and organizational policies during and after migration.
• Support application teams to address compliance requirements and regulatory considerations related to applications.

Communication, Collaboration and Coordination:

• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, IT, CQO, cyber security and business units, to ensure successful migrations.
• Provide regular status updates on application migration progress, risks, and issues.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Relevant and recent experience in planning and executing migrations of services and applications to the cloud.
• Relevant and recent experience in analysing applications and services and their dependencies and requirements.
• Relevant and recent experience in Azure and AWS.
• Relevant and recent experience in DevSecOps and associated toolingsuch as Azure DevOps, GitLab and Jenkins.
• Relevant and recent experience in Automated Deployments using Terraform, Ansible, Azure ARM and AWS CloudFormation.
• Relevant and recent experience in containerization of applications and their deployment using Kubernetes and helm charts.
• Relevant experience with and knowledge of programming languages including Java and .NET.
• Strong problem solving skills.
• Relevant and recent experience in using Agile planning and execution and the Scrum methodology.

Language Proficiency

• Business English

Working Location

• The Hague, Netherlands

Working Policy

• On-Site

Travel

• Some travel to other NATO sites may be required

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance

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