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.

• 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.

• 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.