CYBERSPACE WARFARE ENGINEER

CYBERSPACE WARFARE ENGINEER

DEFTEC delivers mission-critical solutions through skillfully delivered services and innovative products. We are inspired by our clients' critical missions and driven to provide the most effective solutions to execute their missions, operational challenges, and requirements. Our dedicated, experienced, and talented employees work closely with our clients to ensure the delivery of exceptional services and products.

POSITION OVERVIEW

This role supports the end-to-end development and documentation of NATO cyber capabilities, based on operational needs, strategic guidance, and direction from the ACT Programme Director. Key responsibilities include translating operational requirements into validated capability specifications, designing functional and non-functional architecture, and supporting the creation of implementation plans addressing scope, timelines, cost, and risk.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Based on NATO operational needs, requirements, literature review, and high-level direction and guidance from ACT Programme Director, develop, describe and document cyber capabilities, including: Develop, analyse, validate, complete and enhance capability requirements, departing from operational requirements, to translate them into specifications for the capability description.
• Develop or support the development and documentation of capability architectures.
• Develop or support the development of capability specifications, including functional and non-functional specifications.
• Develop or support the development of implementation plans, including analysis of scope, timelines, cost and risk.
• Build and maintain Communities of Interest (NATO organizations, Nations, Industry, Academia) dedicated to the development and implementation of cyberspace capabilities, in close coordination with the Technical Director and ACT Cyberspace Federation & Partnership SME.
• Use those Communities of Interest to develop and validate the products resulting from tasking 1, above.
• Support and contribute to other capability development activities, including feasibility studies, foresight analysis, technical and operational analysis, experimentation campaigns, etc.
• Inform, organize and participate in meetings, workshops, conferences and other events, and travel to attend those, as needed, generally within NATO's boundaries for up to 20 days per year.
• Perform additional tasks, related to the contract, as required by the COTR.

Required Qualifications:

• Master's degree in engineering, systems engineering or computer science. A bachelor's degree and 5 years of recent experience in system engineering, capability development and implementation in a military context will be considered in lieu of a master's degree.
• Proven recent (at least three within the last five years) post-degree hands-on experience in authoring specifications, architectures, functional analysis and designs, preferably in the area of military information and cyber systems. Experience at the level of management, overseeing, participating or supporting shall not be accounted for.
• Post-degree education in CIS security and cyber defence disciplines, as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), GIAC Security Expert or ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).
• Post-degree hands-on experience in architecture drafting, preferably using NATO Architectural Framework (NAF) or similar standard (e.g. TOGAF).
• Expert-level certification at the level of Programme Management Professional (PMP), AXELOS Management of Successful Programmes (MSP) or Project Professional Qualification (PPQ).
• Demonstrated experience in planning, coordinating and executing workshops for various stakeholders including governmental agencies, academia and industry..

DEFTEC offers a comprehensive whole-life benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, holiday, paid time off, 401K with a match, life insurance, short/long-term disability, and educational reimbursement. The DEFTEC team comprises professionals who make a difference daily in crucial national security missions. Our leadership knows that this happens by employing a diverse team that is well cared for. Our top priority is our employees, making DEFTEC an ideal workplace.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.