Ministry Of Defence Jobs – Operational Assurance Analyst In Belfast

Overview

Position Title: Operational Assurance Analyst

Company: UK Ministry of Defence

Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Job Description

Working closely with the Operational Assurance Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring the IT services used in the delivery of Military HR meets operational requirements, enabling the very best services for our Military and Veteran communities.

As the Operational Assurance Analyst you will be an integral part of a multi-disciplinary team working alongside the prime contractor to ensure operational, business and contractual requirements are being met.

We are looking for a self-motivated and competent IT professional with a broad range of knowledge and experience to fulfil this Digital, Data and Technology (DDAT) IT Service Manager role, who has experience in all aspects of the field gained through working across a sizeable application landscape.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and coordinate the collation and return of the Annual Sustainability Report on behalf of MilPers&Vets.
• Working with the Test Teams to ensure all MilPers&Vets applications are successfully integrated and tested against MOD supplied IT services, resulting from both change to the services and end user systems.
• Working with the prime supplier and other stakeholders ensure that risk to business output from potential impacts to the ICT are mitigated while through oversight of the ITIL processes identify and report potential operational service improvements opertunities.
• Working with the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) Team to ensure service outputs can be maintained in the event of unplanned service disruption.
• Working with the Security Teams to ensure system security is maintained while threats are identified and mitigated.
• Working with the prime supplier ensure all Non-Functional Requirements (NFR’s) for the services are met and all ICT assets (including hardware, software, licences and support arrangements) are managed, registered and maintained.
• Working with the Architecture Teams to monitor technical roadmaps to ensure contractual compliance is maintained while reviewing changes to the services for any potential impact on future service operations.
• Working with the MOD Defence Digital Case Officer ensure all MilPers&Vets IT services obtain and maintain the correct approvals along with meeting MOD and Government ICT Policy and legislation.