The posting
This Solution Architect role specializing in Infrastructure and Systems Deployment of C2 Solutions is pivotal for designing and implementing advanced security operations systems that ensure real-time response and efficient coordination during security incidents. Your expertise will drive the innovation and integration of smart, connected security systems that protect people, assets, and infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- Architect and design Command and Control (C2) systems tailored to manage and coordinate site protection, surveillance, and emergency response efforts, through data analytics, data correlation and artificial intelligence
- Develop end-to-end solutions integrating physical security technologies (CCTV, access control, intrusion detection) with centralized C2 platforms to enable real-time monitoring, decision-making, and operational coordination.
- Lead the integration of C2 solutions with various physical security systems, such as surveillance cameras, access control systems, alarm systems, and emergency communication platforms.
- Design solutions that allow seamless interoperability between C2 systems, IoT devices, and security monitoring platforms to enable fast, informed decisions during critical events.
- Define Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) architectures (e.g. Terraform, Ansible) to provision reproducible, self-healing environments for development, staging and air-gapped production sites without external internet dependencies
- Design enterprise Kubernetes clusters tailored for mission-critical C2 microservices, leveraging GitOps workflows to automate state synchronization and deployment state consistency
- Architect multi-site active-active/active-passive data center topologies with automated DNS/BGP failover, multi-region database replication, and low-latency messaging guarantees to meet customer system availability targets
- Design fault-tolerant event-driven architecture for up to sub-second telemetry ingestion, video streaming metadata, sensor alert propagation and system event distribution across federated C2 nodes
- Architect resilient data flow topologies connecting field-deployed sensor sub-systems, access control units, Video Management Systems (VMS) to centralized core C2 visualization platforms, ensuring reliable delivery over customer-provisioned network connections
- Size and tune distributed messaging clusters to support high-throughput, low-latency workloads generated by analytics engines, AI video analytics, and spatial mapping layers
- Design and right-size hyperconverged compute and software-defined storage (SDS) clusters optimized for heavy IOPS workloads such as multi-channel video ingestion, spatial indexing and event logging.
- Standardize hardware appliance profiles for localized command centers, mobile control units, and ruggedized edge nodes running containerized C2 agent worklods.
- Ensure that all C2 security systems comply with relevant regulatory and industry standards (e.g., ISO 27001, NFPA, GDPR, physical security regulations).
- Embed “Security-by-Design” principles across all environment tiers, ensuring solution blueprints satisfy data protection, cryptographic, and system hardening benchmarks
- Advise stakeholders on building automated CI/CD pipelines enforcing static code analysis, artifact sign-off, dependency vulnerability scanning, and automated deployment verification.
- Innovate to improve system resilience, scalability, and performance, ensuring the C2 solution can evolve to meet new security threats and operational demands.
- Collaborate with site security managers, IT teams, facilities management, and external contractors to ensure the C2 solution is deployed effectively and meets operational goals.
- Provide leadership in security architecture discussions, offering expertise on best practices and future trends in physical security and C2 technologies.
- Guide teams on the deployment, integration, and operation of the C2 systems, ensuring smooth implementation and user adoption.
Requirements & Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Certifications in Command and Control systems or security management (e.g., Certified Protection Professional (CPP), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)) are highly desirable.
- Proven experience (typically 5+ years) in designing and deploying C2 systems for defence, public safety, airport/maritime or critical infrastructure protection.
- Strong experience in integrating security technologies with C2 platforms, such as surveillance systems, access control, incident management tools, and communication systems.
- Expertise in developing or integrating real-time monitoring systems, dashboard solutions, and communication platforms for security operations centers (SOCs) or control rooms.
- Deep understanding of real-time situational awareness platforms, C4ISR/C2 frameworks, telemetry ingestion, physical security information management (PSIM), video analytics pipelines, and sensor integration protocols
- Hands-on architecture experience with HCI platforms (e.g. Nutanix, VMware vSAN) and edge-to-core hybrid infrastructure deployment models
- Proficiency in automated provisioning and deployment using tools like Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Helm, and GitOps tools like ArgoCD/Flux
- Demonstrated expertise in active-active data center topologies, disaster recovery strategy and automation, air-gapped environment updates, and sub-second failover mechanics
