Location: Prestwick (3 days per week onsite per fortnight)
Duration: 5 month contract
(Inside IR35)
Role details:
NATS (National Air Traffic Services) are looking for an experienced Technical Engineer to support the delivery and maintenance of critical networking and communications projects within a complex operational environment. The role will focus primarily on supporting a portfolio of networking projects, requiring a blend of networking expertise, scripting capability, systems knowledge, and communications experience.
Key Responsibilities:
- Supporting technical design and continual service improvement activities across operational systems
- Working hands-on at system level while considering wider architecture, interfaces and dependencies
- Supporting networking projects and identifying opportunities to improve system performance and resilience
- Using scripting and troubleshooting skills to investigate technical issues and develop effective solutions
- Analysing system and interface behaviour across complex or legacy operational environments
- Working with IP networking, serial communications and associated technical infrastructure
- Contributing to technically sound solutions within a safety-critical environment
- Collaborating with designers, architects and engineers across the wider technical team
- Identify improvement opportunities, understand system and interface behaviour and help develop technically sound solutions.
What we are looking for:
- Strong understanding of IP networking principles.
- Strong scripting skills, including PowerShell or comparable scripting languages
- Understanding of complex or legacy operational systems and their interfaces
- Experience with OpenVMS or other VMS environments would be particularly valuable
- Ability to understand system architecture, dependencies and integration points
- Experience with communications systems, including serial communications
Desirable skills:
- Experience working in safety-critical, defence, security, air traffic management or similarly regulated environments would be advantageous
Interested? Apply today via the link provided.
