Firewall Coordinator - Mons, België - Spektrum

Spektrum

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Mons, België

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Geplaatst door:

Sophie Dubois

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Beschrijving

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Who we are supporting

The NATO Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) is responsible for providing secure and effective communications and information technology (IT) services to NATO's member countries and its partners.

The agency was established in 2012 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

The NCIA provides a wide range of services, including:

Cyber Security: The NCIA provides advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect NATO's communication networks and information systems against cyber threats.
Command and

Control Systems:
The NCIA develops and maintains the systems used by NATO's military commanders to plan and execute operations.

Satellite Communications: The NCIA provides satellite communications services to enable secure and reliable communications between NATO forces.
Electronic Warfare: The NCIA provides electronic warfare services to support NATO's mission to detect, deny, and defeat threats to its communication networks.

Overall, the NCIA plays a critical role in ensuring the security and effectiveness of NATO's communication and information technology capabilities.

The program

Assistance and Advisory Service (AAS)
The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) is NATO's principal C3 capability deliverer and CIS service provider.

It provides, maintains and defends the NATO enterprise-wide information technology infrastructure to enable Allies to consult together under Article IV, and, when required, stand together in the face of attack under Article V.

To provide these critical services, in the modern evolving dynamic environment the NCI Agency needs to build and maintain high performance-engaged workforce.

The NCI Agency workforce strategically consists of three major categorise's:
NATO International Civilians (NIC)'s, Military (Mil), and Interim Workforce Consultants (IWC)'s.

The IWCs are a critical part of the overall NCI Agency workforce and make up approximately 15 percent of the total workforce.

Role Duties and Responsibilities

Develop and update as required a documented Firewall Change Management Process
Responsible to oversee the entire FW process execution within VeVA MN, under the lead of the VeVA Service management Working Group (SMWG).
Ensure to establish coordination channels with other relevant stakeholders in the FW Change Request (FWCR) Process (VeVA Configuration Manager, NCIA Configuration Manager, NCIA BPS team, SMA Design Authority, etc.)
Ensure to acknowledge and fully understand the VeVA Architecture Definition (Service Level 2 Diagrams) for every technical domain (COMMS, CORE, COI)
Ensure to update the Architecture Definition Service Level 2 Diagram in case of errors depicted in the management tool deviating from the agreed Architecture Service Diagrams (input for updates are coming from MPNs and VeVA CM).
Proactively escalate to relevant process owners (VeVA CM, NCIA CM, MNPs CM, etc) on errors found in the FW rules.
Creation of the Consolidated FWCR List in the management toolset, including the creation and submission of all manual FWCR that have not been automatically identified by the management tool and based on the Architecture Service Diagrams.
Add all manually created FWs, including the nonfederation facing, to the management tool to ensure all rules are contained in a single database.
Ensure that the manual process is recorded in a process document and automated where possible.
Endorse that a list of 'always open' ports are confirmed by BPS.
Verification by exception of the Firewall Rules compliancy.
Act a single point of contact for the Deployable CIS Support Group (DSG) Deployed Network Operations Center (DNOC) / CIS MN OPCEN L2 Technician for FW rules troubleshooting (for every technical domain, COMMS, CORE IS, DCOI Services).
Interact with NCIA BPS to trigger/monitor FW Rules Implementation and collect and react upon their feedback about any FWCR issue.
Monitor and coordinate as required the FWR for NATION to NATO, and FWR NATION to NATION are created, stored and managed by the NATIONS in the management toolset.
Proactively verify the accuracy of the automatically produced FWCR List, and authorize Implementation or Rejection the Firewall Rules that are submitted by MNPs/DSG DNOC as result of missing FWCR in the management tool.
Coordinate and ensure the correction of Firewall rules judged to be incorrect.
During an exercise or operation, daily report to the DSG DNOC/ CIS MN OPCEN Head about the execution of the overall VeVA FWCR List.
Act as the VeVA CM as required to aim, among other functions, to maintain the overall VeVA MN Configuration in the designated CM Toolset, ensuring that all MNPs have provided federated Configuration Data as per agreed implemented Service Functions, of the expec