BICES-0005 Systems Engineer (CTS) BELGIUM - 15 Oct

Deadline Date: Thursday 15 October 2026
 
Requirement: Systems Engineer
 
Location: Brussels, BELGIUM
 
Full Time On-Site: Yes
 
Not to Exceed Rate: 79 EUR
 
Total Scope of the request (hours): 1672
 
Period of Performance: 2027 BASE period: 4th January 2027 until 31st December 2027
 
Required Security Clearance: NATO COSMIC TOP SECRET
 
Please do NOT apply for any NATO contract positions unless you meet ALL the following criteria:

1. Current National or NATO SECRET clearance
2. Nationality of one of the NATO member countries
3. Current work visa for the specific location if applying for an in-country position

Any applications that do NOT meet all the above - and do not CLEARLY show these on the CV - will be deleted.
 
Introduction
 
The BICES (Battlefield Information Collection and Exploitation Systems) is an association of independent elements to enable the sharing and exchange of timely intelligence-related information between all NATO member nations, associated partner nations and the NATO organization. BICES capabilities are intended for national, NATO or coalition use, during peace, crisis and war, supporting decision-makers, deployed force commanders and tactical users. The BICES Group Executive (BGX) works as a facilitator maintaining the core network and coordinating the community-wide provision of capabilities and services operated at national/organisational level. BICES offers a number of services to support BICES users using mainly commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), open source but also an in-house developed software.
Within BGX, the BICES Support Unit (BSU) is responsible for managing the BICES services across the BICES NATO HQ Element that includes the following CIS functional areas by providing daily operational support: BGX Service Desk, Networking/Communications, Secure Voice & Video telecommunications platforms and Systems/Applications services, SharePoint, Call Manager support. Additionally, the BSU provides general maintenance functions, and quality assurance, and manages customer feedback. The BSU provides support related to IT Incidents, problems and service requests to the BICES NATO HQ Element users. The purpose of this Statement of Work (SOW) is to engage external contractor to staff the BSU.
 
Job Description
 
Under the supervision of the BSU Chief, the System Technician provides 3rd level support for complex technical issues related to the BICES NATO HQ Element server platforms and associated applications and services. The incumbent will lead the technical execution of assigned engineering issues. S/He will coordinate with experts within NATO HQ and BGX to resolve complex technical issues.
 
Requirements
Qualifications and Experience
Essential

• The incumbent must have a University degree or an equivalent level of qualification in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) or another related discipline;
• The incumbent must possess minimum 6 years' experience in information, application, technology and system architecture and integration planning,
• The incumbent must possess at least 3 years of experience in projects on design and implementation/integration of ICT;
• The incumbent must possess at least 3 years of experience of software/application lifecycle and have extended experience with integration of commercial software into operational CIS;
• The incumbent must possess at least 3 years of experience in tailoring and integration of IT solutions on business requirements;
• The incumbent must possess at least 3 years of experience in VMware based deployments;
• The incumbent must possess at least 3 years of experience in IP based network communication systems;
• The incumbent must demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills to address both IT and non-IT/ business audiences;
• The incumbent must possess level V (Advanced) of the English language.