Requirement: Voice and VTC Engineer
Location: Brussels, BELGIUM
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
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:
- 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, the incumbent's primary role is to provide 3rd level support for complex technical resolutions in the area of Voice, Video and Teleconferencing IP related services and associated components. S/He provides support to the design, documentation, testing and implementation of projects, to include all stages of service transition processes. S/He is responsible for problem management processes. The incumbent will lead the technical execution of the assigned Voice and VTC 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);
- A minimum of 6 years' experience in the field of Network and Systems Engineering;
- Have at least 3 years' experience leading the tailoring and integration of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) / Video Tele-Conferencing (VTC) solutions on business requirements;
- Have at least 3 years' experience in Wide Area Network (WAN) communications, router/switched based networks and routing protocols, with specific expertise on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunking, creating, maintaining, and troubleshooting;
- Be able to lead the preparation and maintenance of documentation, of a technical nature (e.g. configuration guides, diagrams, training preparations, requests for change);
- Possess level V (Advanced) of the English language.
