2025-0275 Operational Service Support for NATO NISC ID&E; OPEX Grazzanise, Italy | Posted on 26/08/2025 Mc Bride is a certified Minority-Owned Business Enterprise (MBE), Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) management and IT consulting firm with significant professional services experience that includes business strategy development, program management, business process improvement, change management, human capital management, disaster recovery, and operations. At Mc Bride, we are passionate about creating opportunities rather than waiting for them, because the wait may last forever.

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Job Description

The Contractor will provide services relatedto the following activities, using an agile (see paragraph 4) and iterativeapproach using multiple sprints, with each sprint planned for a duration of 30days Support activities: Supporting the delivery of 3rd leveltechnical support for IT and Data Management Services in DCIS and assuringavailability of assigned services is in line with Target of table 3.2.



Supporting the performs fault diagnosisusing the IT and Data Management Services Management System Supporting to Supervise and carry outroutine maintenance of IT and Data Management Services infrastructure, managementappliances and other NATO IT and Data Supporting the completion of any changes tothe system documentation Supporting the completion of backups andrestores of IT and Data Management Services devices Supporting the performs remote faultdiagnosis on IT and Data Management Services as required Supporting the collaboration with thestakeholders, both internal and externals, as necessary, to coordinate effortsand ensure smooth execution of software support and development activities Supporting the execution of the processes of Incident Management, Change Management and Release Management, as required,following the NCIA procedures and execute incident intervention/resolutionwithin expected KPI`s.

Requirements

The consultancy support for this workrequires the following

qualifications:
Technical Qualifications At least 8 years' progressive experience incomplex network engineering roles: Design, implementation and support scalableenterprise network infrastructures leveraging BGP, MPLS, IPv6, OSPF, IS-IS. Active CCNP certification is required. Active CCIE (R&S;, Enterprise Infrastructure or Service Provider) certification is desirable.

Deep knowledge of BGP, including routereflectors, confederations, communities, path manipulation, and filtering(i BGP, e BGP, policy control). Proficient in Qo S design, shaping,



policing,and classification techniques for converged networks. Extensive experience infine-tuning Qo S policies to support mission-critical applications and voiceservices.

Knowledge of Qo S configuration and traffic classification models(CBWFQ, LLQ and WRED). Proven expertise in IPv6 implementation,troubleshooting and dual-stack environments with a strong focus on IPv6adoption and transition strategies. Deep knowledge and experience with:policy-based routing, route aggregation and summarization, redistribution, VRF, MPLS traffic engineering. In-depth knowledge of multicast protocols(PIM sparse/dense mode, IGMP, MSDP, Anycast RP) and their use in real-worlddeployments.

Configuration and troubleshooting of multicast protocols. Proficient in datacenter and switchingtechnologies (STP, MSTP, Rapid PVST, Ether Channel, LACP, Virtual Stack, Stack Wise, Cisco Nexus NX-OS, Spine-Leaf Strong troubleshooting skills with toolslike Wireshark, Net Flow and SNMP. Knowledge of network monitoring concepts. Hands-on experience with SD-WANtechnologies. Familiarity with Dev Net, API integrations,and network programmability.

Knowledge of network security best practices(ACLs, firewalls, VPNs, IPSec, AAA, Role Based Access Control, Public Key Infrastructure, security-hardening concepts). Proficient in network automation andscripting (Python, Ansible, Terraform).

Preferred

Skills:

Integration and support voice over IP (Vo IP)solutions, including SIP trunking, call routing and voice gatewayconfigurations. Experience in cloud networking Knowledge of Segment Routing (SR, SRv6) Knowledge and understanding of the latestsoftware defined (SDN) networking technologies: VMWare NSX, Cisco ACI Configuration management practices and tools Kno

📌 2025-0275 operational service support for nato nisc id&e opex (Italia)
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