Role Purpose
To lead the provision, implementation, integration, and lifecycle management of the organization's CNS infrastructure platforms, ensuring a secure, resilient, and high-availability environment that supports CNS systems for safe air navigation operations. Ensure CNS infrastructure solutions are delivered and managed in compliance with approved architecture standards, cybersecurity requirements, and applicable regulatory requirements within the set KPIs, agreed budgets, and adopted policies and procedures.
Key Accountability Areas
Key Activities
Infrastructure Engineering
Lead infrastructure engineering planning activities, including engineering feasibility assessments, technology planning, and infrastructure optimization to support current and future operational requirements.
Translate approved architecture designs into detailed infrastructure engineering plans and implementation priorities.
Lead the development and periodic update of CNS infrastructure engineering manuals, technical procedures, and engineering practices.
Drive continuous improvement in infrastructure engineering methodologies, technical practices, and engineering processes.
Identify infrastructure engineering risks and recommend mitigation measures to ensure resilient, secure, and sustainable infrastructure solutions.
Identify opportunities to improve infrastructure scalability, resilience, performance, and operational efficiency through modern technologies and engineering best practices.
Infrastructure Configuration Management
Lead the development and maintenance of infrastructure configuration management practices, configuration baselines, and technical documentation.
Validate infrastructure configurations to ensure compliance with approved architecture standards, cybersecurity requirements, and technical specifications.
Ensure infrastructure configuration changes are controlled, documented, and maintained throughout the infrastructure engineering lifecycle.
Infrastructures Delivery & Integration
Lead the development of infrastructure implementation and deployment plans based on approved High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs).
Lead the implementation, integration, and technical deployment of CNS infrastructure in accordance with approved architecture, engineering standards, and project requirements.
Validate infrastructure implementation readiness and technical compliance prior to infrastructure delivery.
Monitor infrastructure implementation progress, technical dependencies, and engineering deliverables to ensure successful project execution.
Lead the technical review of Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT), Site Acceptance Tests (SAT), commissioning activities, and technical handover readiness.
Lead and facilitate internal and external technical audits related to infrastructure implementation and ensure compliance with cybersecurity, ICAO, GACAR, SANS, and other applicable regulatory requirements.
Infrastructure Lifecycle Management
Lead infrastructure lifecycle planning activities, including capacity planning, technology refresh, lifecycle optimization, and technology obsolescence management.
Develop lifecycle infrastructure strategies to ensure long-term availability, scalability, resilience, and sustainability of CNS infrastructure.
Evaluate infrastructure lifecycle performance and recommend modernization, upgrade, and replacement initiatives.
Provide technical leadership in lifecycle investment planning, infrastructure cost estimation, and vendor technical evaluations.
Lead infrastructure resource planning to support engineering activities and long-term infrastructure sustainability.
Oversee infrastructure procurement planning, PR and PO activities, and vendor coordination to ensure timely acquisition and delivery of infrastructure solutions.
Policies, Processes and Procedures
Support in monitoring day-to-day activities to ensure compliance with stipulated policies and procedures
Contribute to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of systems and processes taking into account leading practices, changes in business environment, cost reduction and productivity improvement
People Management
Actively participate in on-the-job training, mentoring and coaching of subordinates
Provide clear direction, prioritize tasks, assign and delegate responsibility and monitor the workflow
Promote a high-performance working environment embracing SANS’s values
Knowledge and Experience
Minimum 6 years of experience in CNS Architecture or related field is required.
Education and Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent is required.
Technical Certification in CNS/ATM systems or Network/Server administration is required.
Let’s Shape the Future Together ..
Since 1982, Obeikan Investment Group has built thriving businesses in multiple channels. This is what four decades of experience have taught us:
- Businesses that stay on conventional paths will ultimately be overtaken by more agile competitors.
- Incremental steps aren’t enough to maintain market leadership, so thinking big is essential.
- A successful future takes ongoing, radical, all-hands-on-deck innovation.
- And innovation isn’t a project with an end date—it’s an embedded mindset.
Innovation is at the core of everything we do at Obeikan. The world of business has changed and the future is no longer an extension of today; continual re-invention is a now pre-requisite for success. To compete, we’re perpetually re-engineering our processes, products and organisation to do more and to do better—executing faster, more reliably, more productively and more profitably.
Today, the catalyst of innovation is digital transformation. It’s enabled us to perform at the highest level, and now we are making the same possibilities available to our clients. Obeikan’s digital technologies are a bridge to full membership in the digital economy. As a leader in digital transformation, we’re empowering our customers to refine their operations, amplify their impact, and sharpen their competitiveness.
We’re passionate about sharing our knowledge to change our world for the better. We give our best every day to help help build an increasingly dynamic economy and society, and to partner for collective wins. Through collaboration with Obeikan, clients can also create new paths to success, revitalise business operations and relationships, and accelerate value creation.
Are you ready? Let’s shape the future together.
