ATLASSIAN CONFLUENCE FEDERATION AND REPLICATION MECHANISM PR

Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO, UN, EU, and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services, specialised aerospace and defence sales, delivery, and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.

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.
• Information Management: The NCIA manages NATO's information technology infrastructure, including its databases, applications, and servers.

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 Background

The NCI Agency has been established with a view to meeting the collective requirements of some or all NATO nations in the fields of capability delivery and service provision related to Consultation, Command & Control as well as Communications, Information and Cyber Defence functions, thereby also facilitating the integration of Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, Target Acquisition functions and their associated information exchange.

The NATO Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is a team of over 200 members working to monitor and protect NATO networks. In the NCSC’s role to deliver robust security services to the NATO Enterprise and NATO Allied Operations and Missions (AOM), the centre executes a portfolio of programmes and projects around 219 MEUR euros per year, in order to uplift and enhance critical cyber security services. The Portfolio ranges from Programme of Work (POW) activities funded via the NATO Military Budget (MB)  to Critical / Urgent Requirements (CURs/URs) and NATO Security Investment Programme (NSIP) projects funded via the Investment Budget (IB). In some edge  cases, projects are also funded via the Civilian Budget (CB). Projects can span multiple years and are governed by various frameworks, including the Common Funded Capability Development Governance Framework (CFCDGM).

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Deliverable 1
  • They shall demonstrate the technical concept to achieve the requirements laid out
  • Deliverable 1 Outcome - An approved technical concept for implementing the solution
• Deliverable 2
  • They shall demonstrate in a test environment the technical implementation of the replication mechanism for new content, being a space or a page.
  • Deliverable 2 Outcome - The demonstration is confirming that the solution is able to transfer a confluence page or a confluence space from one environment to the other environment.
• Deliverable 3.
  • They shall demonstrate in a test environment the technical implementation of the replication mechanism for handling update and deletion of existing content.
  • Deliverable 3 Outcome - the demonstration is confirming that the solution is able to replicate update or deletion of confluence page or a confluence space from one environment to the other environment.
• Deliverable 4
  • They shall demonstrate the solution is able to handle exceptions and errors, and that the logging mechanism for troubleshooting is meeting the requirements. The solution will include safeguards to prevent the failure of the content to be replicated and what has been replicated
  • Deliverable 4 Outcome - The demonstration is confirming that the solution is able to handle exception and errors, and provide the level of logging appropriate to a Confluence administrator to handle the error and rectify the error. The safeguarding mechanism will have to be demonstrated.
• Deliverable 5
  • The developed solution is passing the Site Acceptance Test and delivered to NCSC.
  • D5 Outcome - A fully working replication mechanism of Atlassian Confluence, implemented on a test environment and delivered to NCSC on a collection of virtual machines in VMWare format, with full access to all content and developed
• Deliverable 6
  • They shall fully document the solution and the development code associated.
  • The ownership and copyright of the code shall become the property of the NATO Communications and Information Agency.
• D6 Outcome - a documentation, in Atlassian Confluence format covering, a high level design of the solution, a detailed design of each component of the solution, an administration and troubleshooting documentation, extensive source code documentation allowing for maintenance and improvements

Essential Skills and Experience

The person or team of persons working on this work shall collectively (not for each individual) have the following skills:

• Intimate knowledge of the inner working of Atlassian Confluence at code and database level
• Mastery knowledge of ScriptRunner
• Mastery knowledge of using REST API and listeners
• Excellent knowledge of Linux operating systems
• Excellent knowledge of JAVA
• Excellent knowledge of Python

Working Policy

• Remote

Travel

• Some travel to other NATO sites may be required

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance