Requirement: Cybersecurity Technician
Location: Brussels, BELGIUM
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Not to Exceed Rate: 71 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:
- Current National or NATO SECRET clearance
- Nationality of one of the NATO member countries
- Current work visa for the specific location if applying for an in-country position
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 and in close coordination with the BGX Security Officers and Engineers, the incumbent provides 2nd level support for complex technical cybersecurity-based activities in the area of CIS monitoring and security incident response. S/He contributes to the day-to-day CIS security testing, verifications, scanning, monitoring, updating, baselining, improving and documenting activities of the cybersecurity capabilities implemented within the BICES NATO HQ Element networks. The incumbent reports the status and the discoveries of the security posture of BICES NATO HQ Element networks and contributes to the monitoring, analysis and modifications of security services. The incumbent may be required to undertake operational deployments and/or travel duty assignments both within and beyond NATO's boundaries. The work is performed in a typical Secure Facility environment where slightly undesirable conditions may apply. The risk of injury is categorized as: Light Risk of Injury.
Requirements
Qualifications and Experience
Essential
The incumbent must:
- Possess higher secondary education with at least 3 years post related experience and possess at least 1 year post-related experience in CIS security activities;
- Possess at least 1 year of experience in Windows and Linux based operating systems and platforms, of update service platforms and technologies and of IP based networking and devices;
- Possess at least 1 year of experience in firewall and intrusion detection technologies;
- Demonstrate the ability to identify and describe computer and network anomalies within a CIS and to understand, assess and solve technical issues;
- Possess at least 1 year of experience in security tools such as firewalls, proxies, guard technology, SIEM solutions and scanning tools;
- Possess at least 1 year of experience in Security Operations Centre (SOC) processes and procedures;
- Possess at least 1 year of experience invulnerability assessment and penetration testing techniques, log fusion and log analysis capabilities;
- Be able to communicate effectively orally and in writing;
- Be flexible to work outside regular office hours;
- Possess level V (Advanced) of the English language.
