Description
Deadline Date: Thursday 27 Feb 2025
Requirement Title: System Administrator (Standing Naval Forces)
Location: Northwood, Great Britain
Full time on-site: Yes
Total Scope of the request (hours): 1200
Required Start Date: 13-APR-2025
End Contract Date: 31-DEC-2025
Required Security Clearance: NATO Secret
Specific Working Conditions:
- Must be able to lift items up to 25kg
- This position requires physical work on deployed warships involving movement in small spaces.
Duties and Role:
- Involved in the transfer and set to work of deployed CIS installations during the operational handover of Standing Naval Forces (SNF) NATO flagships.
- Provides remote support to Flagships of those nations involved in the Standing Naval Forces (SNF's).
- Assists Core Section Head with the day-to-day System Administration (SA) of the Hardware (HW) and Software (SW) of the currently fielded version of MS Windows Server, including managing Active Directory Services (Domain Controller, Group and Security Policies), as well as DNS and DHCP servers.
- Assists with day-to-day System Administration (SA) of Hardware (HW) and Software (SW) for VMWare Virtualization technology, including installation and troubleshooting of ESX hosts.
- Assists with System Administration of Storage Area Network (SAN), including routine backup as required by SLA and local Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
- Assists with System Administration of HW and SW for assigned systems; keeps all technical and service-oriented documentation pertaining to assigned systems prepared, properly stored, and up-to-date.
- Maintains a close liaison with other technicians and engineers within CSU and wider NCI Agency.
Requirements:
- NATO Secret clearance
- Knowledge and practical experience in VMware virtualization technology; configure, upgrade, deploy.
- Knowledge and practical experience in configuring iSCSI targets for virtualized environments.
- Knowledge and experience in Microsoft Server Technologies; Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange.
- Knowledge of ITIL IT service management model;
Knowledge of Incident Management processes:
and Problem Management processes;
Experience in this area;
Ability to write technical documentation
and user guides;
Ability to communicate effectively orally
and in writing.
Problem Solving:
Uses rigorous logic
and methods to solve difficult problems
with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources for answers; can see hidden problems; looks beyond the obvious
and doesn't stop at the first answer.
Customer Focus:
Focuses on customer needs
and satisfaction; acts with customers in mind; sets high standards for quality
and quantity; monitors
and maintains quality
and productivity; works systematically,
methodically,
orderly way consistently achieves project goals;
gets first-hand customer information
uses it for improvements
in products
services establishes maintains effective relationships customers gains their trust respect.