1.1. The Department of National Defence (DND) requires the professional services of one Level 3 Technical Architect with a focus on virtualization and cloud technologies to support the Exercise and Simulation (E&S) branch of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Aerospace Warfare Centre (AWC), located on the Shirley’s Bay Campus in Ottawa, ON. The successful bidder will support the design, development, operation and sustainment of the E&S-managed Defence Secure Simulation and Training Node infrastructure (DSSTNi) Information System (IS), specifically through the design, development, documentation and deployment of a Disaster Recovery Site capability for the system. The DSSTNi IS is an internal private cloud employing commercial technologies tailored to support modelling and simulation (M&S) efforts within the Air and Space domain.
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