System Design Authority - Platform Specialist

System Design Authority (SDA) - Platform Specialist

Wiltshire

Contract

Brief

System Design Authority - Platform Specialist needed for a leading defence engineering organisation based in Wiltshire who are looking to employ an experienced and well-rounded System Design Authority - Platform Specialist that takes pride in their work.

The successful candidate would desirably have a relevant computer science universirt-based education at Bachelors or Masters level, and previous work in delivery of software-based programmes and projects. If you have software experience within a defence / cyber security background that would be a plus!.

What the role entails:

Some of the main duties of the System Design Authority - Platform Specialist will include:

• Support
  - Act as the point of contact for platform architecture and threat mitigation on behalf of the SDA Lead.
  - Interact with programme, project and engineering team leads to ensure cross team, cross technology coherence to satisfy the platform requirements.
  - Support design vision creation, design decisions and design review as part of the end to end assurance process.
  - Support to Programme and Project Stakeholder engagement and RADIO
  - Liaise with external stakeholders to ensure end-to-end designs are being delivered across the wider Defence landscape.
  - Liaise with team leads across the Programme and wider defence digital organisations to ensure a robust solution is delivered within Time, Cost and Performance.
• Design
  - Identify and communicate solution intent across programme teams and the SDA and support the review of all high, intermediate and low-level designs for coherence, technical content and quality.
  - Align standards, frameworks and security with overall business and technology strategy.
  - Support to the design of platform architecture elements to enable the system to function as part of the wider defence estate, during inception, transition and operations.
• Assure
  - Ensuring that standards, frameworks and security postures align with overall business and technology strategies and policies e.g. Defence as a Platform, Federated Mission Networking and JSPs.
  - Identify capability gaps in existing architectures and recommend changes or enhancements in line with Agile and continuous improvement methods.

What experience you need to be the successful System Design Authority - Platform Specialist:

• Design and configuration of Wide Area Networks, high grade encryption and DSCP traffic management.
• Military Information Services such as NATO FAS, UK Base Services and MOD Business management apps.
• Design and configuration of Two Factor Authentication Solutions
• Automation and Orchestration technologies and principals.
• Security implementations such as PKI and proxy services in line with Government Security assurance processes.
• Delivering in Agile and Waterfall project management environments
• Experience with the Atlassian Toolset - JIRA, Confluence and BitBucket for delivering Agile based projects.

Optional Skills:

• A Computer Science university-based education at Bachelors or Masters level.
• Previous work in delivery of software-based programmes and projects.

This really is a fantastic opportunity for a System Design Authority - Platform Specialist to progress their career. If you are interested please apply as soon as possible as this position will be filled quickly so don't miss out!

In order to apply for this role, applicants must be eligible to undergo and obtain a high level of UK Security Clearance.

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