Deadline Date: Thursday 15 January 2026
Requirement Title: Deputy Service Delivery Manager – Penetration Testing Services
Location: Mons, Belgium
Full time on-site: Yes
Total Scope of the request (hours): 1254
Required Start Date: 16 FEB 2026
End Contract Date: 31 DEC 2026
Required Security Clearance: NATO Secret
Specific Working Conditions: Normal Office Conditions. 10 days travel is foreseen for this position within Belgium. Post is required to be on site in Mons full time.
Duties and Role
- Support the SDM in delivering high-quality penetration testing services.
- Accurately evaluate scope and level of effort (LoE) for penetration testing tasks.
- Provide technical oversight of vulnerabilities identified during testing.
- Act as a technical liaison between penetration testers, service management, and stakeholders.
- Contribute to service quality, consistency, and continuous improvement.
- Assist in planning and scheduling penetration testing engagements across NATO and NCIA environments.
- Coordinate resources and ensure adherence to agreed timelines.
- Coordinate resources and ensure adherence to agreed timelines.
- Monitor engagement progress and manage risks and dependencies.
- Conduct technical scoping discussions with stakeholders.
- Assess complexity, attack surface, and constraints of target systems.
- Produce justified LoE estimates aligned with NCSC PTAE methodologies.
- Support engagement kick-offs, debriefings, and technical discussions.
- Translate technical findings into risk-focused language for decision-makers
- Support service reporting, KPIs, and dashboards.
- Contribute to methodology updates and lessons learned.
Requirements
- NATO Secret security clearance
- 3+ years in project management or service delivery management in cyber security.
- Extensive technical background in penetration testing and offensive security.
- Demonstrated understanding of vulnerabilities across network, application, and cloud environments.
- Ability to estimate effort and scope complex technical assessments.
- Strong understanding of the penetration testing service lifecycle.
- Proven ability to scope engagements including objectives, in/out of scope, assumptions, constraints, RoE, and deliverables
- Solid knowledge of common penetration testing standards and requirements (e.g., OWASP, PTES, NIST/ISO-aligned practices)
- ITIL experience, with a strong focus on Change Management
- Proven customer-facing experience including requirements gathering, stakeholder management, and expectation setting.
