Deployed Engineer

Role Specification

Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) Deployed Capability Engineer

This role is an opportunity to become part of a growing team, containing System/Network Engineers and Software Developers who are responsible for providing solutions to Maritime Situational Awareness problem sets.

The suitable candidate must be capable of:

• Self-initiating work that meets technical and project objectives, establishing and working to milestones to achieve outcomes.
• Communicating clearly, both formally and informally, to build appropriate and effective relationships with users, customers, and suppliers.
• Analysing, designing, planning, executing, and evaluating work to time, cost, and quality, including Agile practices in support of project goals.
• Making decisions that influence the success of programme/project objectives.
• Collaborating with team members, users, customers, and suppliers to ensure needs are met throughout.
• Performing a range and variety of complex technical and/or professional work activities including, but not limited to:
• System/Solution support and operation that can meet Government Assurance/ Compliance and security standards, including installation reports, system/equipment specifications, safety cases, trial schedules, schematics, installation guidance.
• Provision of technical detail for Business Cases.
• Develop, deliver, build, commission, test, and present capability to acceptance authority.
• Stakeholder engagement in support of MDA activity, providing technical guidance, asset management and alignment of schedules.
• Organise and conduct surveys of MOD and cross-Government installations for provision of MDA capability.
• Provision of Second and Third-Line support for MDA Programme deployed products and services.
• Undertaking work requiring application of fundamental principles in a wide and unpredictable range of contexts including, but not limited to:
• Site and afloat infrastructure installations.
• Network infrastructure (Cisco/Juniper).
• Installation of desktop client and collaborative working environments.
• Provision of products and services for enduring contribution to the Recognised Maritime Picture (RMP) and MOD partners.
• RF Data propagation in the VHF/SHF spectrums encompassing end to end transmission of positional data.
• Familiarity with recognised industry bodies and standards both generic and specific, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and standards including, but not limited to:
  • MOD JSP440/JSP604, BR 9274, SCIDA, DEFSTAN, relevant ISOs and NIST/CIS Benchmark.
• Ability to actively seek to improve knowledge for professional development and to mentor/coach others including, but not limited to:
  • Equipment familiarization to first line support engineers and users of newly deployed Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) systems and capabilities.
  • Upskilling Junior Engineers within the MDA Engineering team.
• Demonstrating a wide breadth of knowledge across MOD operational fixed/deployable CIS and C5ISTAR environments and industry/business areas. Represent Navy Digital as Technical Authority with international collaborative initiatives
• Understanding and communicating the role and impact of applied technology in the deploying organisation.
• Assessing, evaluating, articulating, and escalating programme and project risk.
• Contributing to the security culture of the organisation by proactively ensuring security is appropriately addressed within business area.
• Domestic and international travel in support of MDA objectives.

Role specifics

• Start date - ASAP
• End date - Initial 12 month contract period
• 220 days over a 12-month period (pro rata in line with start date). A standard day is assumed to be 7.5 hours.
• There may be an element of providing out of hours support (on-call) as required.
• An additional 20 contingency days are available for emergency/un-forecasted tasking, or tasking delivered outside of core business hours per 12-month period (40 pre-authorised contingency days for the duration of the contract).
• Candidate will need to be able to attain a minimum SC clearance.
• Consultancy/support services CONDO compliant iaw DEFSTAN 05129.
• Rate - dependent on experience and interview.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.