Specialisms

Our client have continued to go from strength to strength, delivering a number of secure accredited gateway systems and services into the MOD that embrace new technology and innovation. Based in Christchurch, a position has become available within a skilled and experienced team for a strong Linux Integration Engineer.

Job Purpose

The Linux team develops and supports COTS-based Linux environments that form the basis for the secure gateway offerings. We are seeking an experienced Linux integration engineer to support ongoing efforts to automate the development and delivery of capability, in order to meet expected future demand.

The successful applicant will work within an existing development team, working on the production of Linux builds, integrated with open source applications and tools, within a secure/hardened and virtual environment.

Applicants need to understand the benefit of producing quality releases, within a challenging rhythm of release cycles, to meet customer commitments and milestones.

This position would suit an individual with a strong passion for Linux with a desire to continually improve and learn, embracing new technologies and open to new approaches and requirements.

Key Responsibility Areas

• Maintenance of existing RHEL-based server estate
• Development of automated testing tools
• Development of automated administration tools
• Documentation of technical change

Competencies

• Good communication skills
• Practical and self-motivated with a desire to deliver
• Ability to understand system design aspects

Skills and Qualifications

Essential:

• RHEL 7 and 8 system administration and integration
• Ansible
• RHEL package management (yum)
• Use of containerisation technologies (Docker, Podman)
• Strong scripting (Bash, Python)
• Familiarity with software configuration management tools

Desirable:

• RHSA certification
• Producing customised RHEL installations (kickstart)
• Security hardening of Linux applications and operating system
• Good TCP/IP knowledge

PLEASE NOTE: This position has been assesed as INSIDE IR35.

AAP3 is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Responsibilities

• Conducts analysis on internal IT infrastructure and works with Enterprise Architecture function to make recommendations on required improvements
• Develops and maintains infrastructure and application models to document current and target architecture states
• Owns population of Enterprise Architecture repository for required artefacts impacted by the project
• Conducts analysis of internal IT infrastructure against required contractual commitments
• Develops a familiarisation of MoD security standards (DEFSTAN etc…) and uses knowledge to help identify areas of non-compliance
• Works with Enterprise Architecture function to assure internal processes and governance against BAE IM&T Policy
• Creates and matures current operational documentation and configuration control
• Provides general delivery support to both Project Management and Architect functions in delivery of project.

The successfull person will be:

• Is generally working to SFIA level 4.
• Takes on a lead roll, provide consultancy advice and guidance and manage through to completion any functional projects and activities
• Demonstrates advanced Problem Analysis/Problem Solving methodologies
• Benchmarks and review improved ways of working – continually seeking opportunities for Projectivity improvement, quality improvement and cost reduction
• Applies technical strategies, policies, standards and practices within own area of responsibility
• Has a leading role; owns specific work areas and coaches and mentors others.
• Has a detailed understanding of Incident & Problem management and will work on the most complex issues with no need for supervision or support
• Will lead work groups to resolve issues over a more extended period (weeks/months) and will carry out resource and milestone planning
• Is responsible for ensuring the Health & Safety of all your employees and that your area operates in accordance with Company Health and Safety Policies and Procedures
• Budget Responsibilities
• Has an intermediate level of commercial awareness and budget management capability. May have small budget responsibility as part of wider projects.

Skills / Experience

AAP3 is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the design and delivery of data networks to submarine platforms.
• Determining requirements and design standards.
• Writing of technical reports and technical specifications.
• Producing outline functional system diagrams.
• Prepare design calculations to demonstrate designs meet performance requirement i.e. network loading
• Undertake technical development studies to verify compliance with design requirements.
• Undertake design reviews and presentations to customers.
• Working across project groups to ensure designs meet the required operability, safety, security and supportability requirements.
• Work with BAE supply chain and equipment suppliers.
• Attendance at equipment Factory Acceptance Tests (FATs)
• Support to dockside installation and commissioning teams when required.
• Analysis of FAT and commissioning results when required.

Skills & Qualifications

• BEng, BSc or equivalent.
• Data networking qualification such as CCNA or equivalent.
• CEng or CITP (or be able to work towards satisfying requirements for Chartership)
• Experience in an enterprise, public sector, or defence IT environment
• Technical report writing skills.
• Knowledge and experience in defence standards whilst not essential would be an advantage.
• In depth understanding of at least one of the following disciplines: Design and deployment of complex network solutions, Voice architectures, Wireless solutions and RF propagation within closed spaces, Fibre Optical cabling network design

PLEASE NOTE: This position has been assessed as being INSIDE IR35

AAP3 is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Would you like to work within our Information Management and Technology (IM&T) business working on application support and projects that come to us providing the IT infrastructure & Support for the Company?

As a Systems Analyst, you will be involved in the day to day management and monitoring of services and their supporting infrastructure components. The bespoke individual IT systems are managed using an ITIL Framework and you will be responsible for the maintenance, investigation of arising issues, resolved against the defined Service Level Agreements.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to use your varied technical skill set which will be used to support a large project base as well as the opportunity to develop within the wider BAE Systems Business.

Your main responsibilities as a Systems Analyst will involve:

• Providing run and maintain activities on an Azure Platform
• Providing Subject matter expertise for Azure related business needs
• Providing run and maintain activities on Hyper Converge Infrastructure Platform
• Providing Support with the IM&T Infrastructure – including Networks, Windows Systems & Applications
• Developing and Maintaining systems configuration item (CI) baselines in alignment with the Service Management Configuration Management Plan.
• Technical expertise on IM&T System Administration and supporting application layers
• Assisting on work within the area of specialism, taking account of interfaces and approved data; Providing analysis and support of problems related to platform and support system issues and generate proposed solutions
• Supporting the development of processes to ensure discipline technical quality is communicated across all discipline levels of IM&T engineers; ensuring these meet all governance and business requirements;
• Researching problems and issues, gather information from a range of physical and informational sources, review defects on platform or assembly in order to gain a complete understanding of the problem and all relevant circumstances
• Engaging with customer representatives and suppliers and with other internal functions as necessary to discuss technical issues and problems

Your main responsibilities as a Systems Analyst will involve:

• Providing run and maintain activities on an Azure Platform
• Providing Subject matter expertise for Azure related business needs
• Providing run and maintain activities on Hyper Converge Infrastructure Platform
• Providing Support with the IM&T Infrastructure – including Networks, Windows Systems & Applications
• Developing and Maintaining systems configuration item (CI) baselines in alignment with the Service Management Configuration Management Plan.
• Technical expertise on IM&T System Administration and supporting application layers
• Assisting on work within the area of specialism, taking account of interfaces and approved data; Providing analysis and support of problems related to platform and support system issues and generate proposed solutions
• Supporting the development of processes to ensure discipline technical quality is communicated across all discipline levels of IM&T engineers; ensuring these meet all governance and business requirements;
• Researching problems and issues, gather information from a range of physical and informational sources, review defects on platform or assembly in order to gain a complete understanding of the problem and all relevant circumstances
• Engaging with customer representatives and suppliers and with other internal functions as necessary to discuss technical issues and problems

Your skills and qualifications:

• Experience and Understanding of ITIL framework
• Excellent knowledge of the Microsoft Azure platform.
• Knowledge of Hyper Converge Infrastructure maintenance.
• Excellent knowledge of VMWare technologies.
• Knowledge and understanding of supporting applications based on Windows infrastructure components, including VMWare
• Knowledge of Installation and patching of core environments and software solutions
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage with Stakeholders at all levels

Desirable:

• Any experience of the following would be useful; JIRA, Kubernetes, Nagios, Tomcat, Apache

PLEASE NOTE: This role has been confirmed as being INSIDE IR35

AAP3 is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Role description

• Project is the migration from SAP ECC6 to SAP S/4HANA
• Data migration work-stream lead is required to lead on the migration of data from ECC6 to S/4HANA
• An exercise is currently underway to select our main delivery SI. The data migration lead will work closely with the SI data lead.
• Project is planned to run Jan 2021 to Jan 2022, with likely a 3 month post go-live support phase
• Experience of migrating data from ECC6 to S/4HANA using the standard SAP migration tools is required
• In addition to data migration, the lead role will also lead on the data archive work-stream. This will archive all non-migrated ECC6 data into a data archive which is planned to be BW/4HANA. Experience of data archiving is also required.
• The data migration lead will also be required to manage, coordinate and lead the data cleanse activity that will need to happen in parallel. The data cleanse activities will be done by the respective business data owners, but this will need coordinating and managing

Person specification

To fulfil the role above, experience in SAP data migration from ECC6 to S/4HANA is essential. The role is a key lead role so the person will be required to lead and manage a range of groups and teams within the project, business and 3rd parties. The detailed data tasks in most cases will be performed by others, this is a team lead role. It is expected that the person will also be able to get involved in the data detail to help resolve issues and challenges so needs a thorough understanding of the migration methods, tools and approaches.

PLEASE NOTE – This role is inside of IR35

AAP3 is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Key Responsibilities

• Support production of design document for console solutions on new projects (Low Level Design)
• Bug fixing and problem resolution on existing projects (prior to Factory Acceptance)
• Resolving problems raised ‘in the field’ across multiple projects
• Occasional travel to other sites/platform to support issue resolution
• Liaising with and being able to hold technical conversations with SMEs in other domains (e.g. Networking)
• Carry out systems testing/supporting the activity

Key attributes/skills required:

• VMware Desktop Mobility expert. Potentially VCAP / VCP certified
• VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure experience
• Horizon View / Horizon 7.x + SME
• vSphere exposure

Likely to have qualifications such as:

• VCP-DTM / VCP7-DTM / VCP6-DTM
• VCAP-DTM / VCAP7-DTM / VCAP6-DTM
• VCDX-DTM / VCDX7-DTM / VCDX6-DTM

Location: New Malden

Rate: £47.00 per hour

PLEASE NOTE – This role is inside of IR35

AAP3 is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

The IT Systems Infrastructure Principal Engineer will have a good understanding of the principles of the science and technology of computing and will be able to reference the relevant maritime legislation, industry & defence standards. They will have an understanding of the customer and user needs of the product system and how this will influence and impact design activities, technical and operational performance.

The IT Systems Infrastructure Principal Engineer will be able to understand and report the programme status for engineering activities, identify problem areas and implement recovery plans. This will include the management of any consequent change embodiment activities.

The IT systems Infrastructure Principal Engineer will have a working knowledge of theIT marketplace, including products and suppliers and will have an understanding of the direction of potential future technologies.

Responsibilities

The IT Systems Infrastructure Principal Engineer will be responsible for, or provide input to the following typical key deliverables, dependent on the role and the place the project is in the engineering lifecycle:

• Captured and agreed technical requirements in accordance with company and programme processes.
• Compliant technical solutions against contractual requirements and regulations.
• Design documentation generated, captured, configured and controlled in accordance with company processes.
• Design change requirements and documentation generated, captured, configured and controlled in accordance with company processes.
• Engineering LCM adherence for all deliverables, Sub Contract Design Reviews and relevant input to project LCM activities.
• Engineering Lifecycle Management (LCM) adherence for all deliverables, Sub Contract Design Reviews and relevant input to project LCM activities.
• Captured and agreed input to appropriate Verification Cross-Reference Index (VCRI), Integration, Test, Evaluation and Acceptance Plans (ITEAP) and Qualification Plans.
• Specialist advice and contribution to other project documentation, such as Training Needs Analysis (TNA), Technical Publications, and Operating Instructions (list is not exhaustive).

Skills/Qualifications

• Professional Registered (CEng or CITP) through a recognised engineering institution such as the BCS or IET (or working towards).

• Knowledge of ITsystems in the defence, maritime or closely linked domain and have a comprehensive understanding of how their own systems and activities interact with the overall platform.
• Knowledge of the complete engineering lifecycle with some experience of operating in a number of phases.
• Have a strong awareness of Product Safety and SHE.
• Good communication skills and ability to interact with stakeholders.

PLEASE NOTE: This role has been confirm as being INSIDE IR35.

AAP3 is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Systems Engineer: Defence, Aerospace, Maritime, MOD, Systems Engineer

Our client are a global leader in the defence sector with an opportunity for a Systems Engineer working on maritime systems, navigation, sensors, electronic warfare working out of their offices in Havant, Hampshire.

In the role you will assist with technical planning, systems integration, verification & validation, cost & risk, and supportability of systems and solutions for the military maritime sector.

You must be eligible for SC level clearance for this role.

Experience sought:

• Experienced within design, implementation, integration, test and acceptance of MOD/ Defence/ Maritime Systems e.g. Navigation, Sensor and Electronic Warfare Systems
• Customer focused and able to manager Customer requirements to derive System & Sub-System specifications
• System design activities, documentation and preparation/presentation of technical Design Reviews
• Coordinate and support Technical Interchange and Working Group meetings
• Good communication and presentation skills
• Experience of Defence Standards

Systems Engineer: Defence, Aerospace, Maritime, MOD, Systems Engineer

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Systems Engineer: Airborne Mission Systems, Defence Aerospace, SysML, Rhapsody, Enterprise Architect, model based systems

Opportunity for experienced Systems Engineers to work on design, development & testing of Airborne Mission Systems and Ground Based Training Systems. Working with leading global organisation out of their Havant, Hampshire offices.

Full life-cycle experience sought and experience with Airborne Mission Systems, Defence Aerospace or similar ideal. Experience with model based systems, SysML, Rhapsody, Enterprise Architect ideal.

Key experience sought:

• Experienced Systems Engineer
• Ideally with experience of Airborne Mission Systems/ Ground Training Systems/ Defence Aerospace
• Experience working with clients
• Requirements Analysis – CASE tools, Agile and or traditional
• Systems Design – Design Analysis Reports, Architecture, test strategies
• Support integration, test & verification – Review test requirements, support design for testing rigs, support test
• Support to airworthiness

Systems Engineer: Airborne Mission Systems, Defence Aerospace, SysML, Rhapsody, Enterprise Architect, model based systems

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Key Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, delivery and assurance of customer and in house work packages
• Develop and implement policies, standards and procedures for Infrastructure engineering activity
• Liaise with the customer on all Infrastructure risks and issues
• Provide solutions and support to project requirements
• Provide continuous improvement of Infrastructure engineering capabilities
• Provide management, oversight, direction and guidance to project team members, through the planning and delivery of projects
• Produce essential project documents and internal work instructions
• Provide Infrastructure engineering technical input into bid preparation and contracts

Key skills & qualifications

• The ability to gain SC clearance (essential security requirement)
• A willingness to gain DV clearance to allow you to work on a wider range of projects in the role
• Hyper-V, VMWare certification or equivalent industry virtualization experience an advantage
• Microsoft Certification (MCSE or equivalent) an advantage
• HP Server and Workstation configuration and administration
• Experience of Microsoft Windows Workstation and Server design, configuration, deployment, management and support; including windows infrastructure services, active directory, exchange server, backup, group policy and hardening etc.
• Experience of infrastructure support, anti-virus and patching
• Experience of the full engineering lifecycle; design/development, test and acceptance, configuration management, in service support
• The ability to meet with customers, manage and build relationships
• Willing to travel within the UK and overseas if required
• Holder of a full UK driving licence, with the ability to travel, when required

Desirable Requirements:

• A credible level of experience of Infrastructure engineering, preferably gained in the government / defence sector.
• CompTIA, CCNA or networking certification, an desirable
• Cyber and Security experience.
• Server storage configuration
• Firewall, routers configuration experience.
• Linux administration and configuration
• Web programming skills; Apache, IIS, HTML, JavaScript, stylesheets and PHP

What we’re looking for in you

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Well-developed analytical/ problem solving/ decision making skills.
• Strong organisational skills who is adaptable in a fast-paced environment.
• Stakeholder management skills.

Salary is dependant on experience and skills, so please discuss this with the recruiter once you have applied.

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