The initially selected candidate for this RFQ withdrew, therefore the technical evaluation team review the higher priced candidates and no suitable candidate was found from the following reason:

• Not qualified, candidates do not have enough Trellix experience

Deadline Date: Monday 9 November 2026

Requirement: End Point Expert

Location: Brussels, BE

Full Time On-Site: Yes (There is a limited possibility for remote work (i.e. 1 day/week))

Time On-Site: 100%

Total Scope of the request (hours): 150

Required Start Date: 7 December 2026

End Contract Date: 31 December 2026

Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET

Duties & Role:  

• Managing the lifecycle for the product under his/her area of responsibility.
• Develop and maintain security policies, configurations, exclusions, exceptions and security baselines
• Support incident response activities, work closely with other CSU teams and support Service Desk
• Provide technical guidance and subject matter expertise for endpoint security architecture and engineering decisions
• Planning, implementing and taking the lead in rolling out Trellix product upgrades at least once every two months on windows end user devices (laptops, workstations and VDI) and Windows and Linux servers
• Work with other IT administrators to troubleshoot incident and problems related to Trellix products
• Test and implement NATO security policies for endpoint security products.
• Optimize policies of endpoint security products to improve performance and troubleshoot performance related issues
• Work with stakeholders to ensure that configurations align with industry best practice
• Follow existing approval processes to request required exceptions
• Create appropriate SOPs and documentation
• Support the development and continuous improvement for endpoint security processes, standards and governance

Requirements

Skills, Knowledge & Experience:

• The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
• Recent knowledge and experience in implementing and managing the entire range of Trellix products (threat prevention, application control, host firewall, DLP, drive encryption, …) on windows end user devices and windows / linux servers
• Experience with service delivery in a complex IT environment, following ITIL processes while maintaining high levels of system availability strong communication and coordination skills
• Strong root cause and problem solving skills
• Strong documentation and knowledge sharing skills
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of technical issues
• Ability to analyse security events, logs, alerts and endpoint data exchange.
• Strong analytical skills