Vulnerability Management Engineer

Spektrum; Henegouwen; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Spektrum supports apex purchasers and NATO-related agencies by delivering vulnerability management, data analytics, and security reporting. The role focuses on building data pipelines, dashboards, and remediation coordination for NCIA-related projects.

The candidate will work on-site in a NATO environment, leveraging Power BI, Grafana, SQL, Python, and security best practices to support mission-critical operations.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of practical experience in vulnerability management.
• 3 years of experience ensuring contracted deliveries meet security requirements.
• Knowledge of cyber security architectures and risk management.
• Experience with vulnerability scanners and data analytics tooling.

Responsibilities

• Perform security assessment and technical analysis.
• Analyse vulnerability assessment results weekly.
• Prepare remediation plans and provide to technical points of contact.
• Interpret findings and support system administrators.
• Prioritize remediation based on impact.
• Provide weekly guidance on hardening measures at OS, database, and network levels.
• Design, build and maintain data repositories and dashboards.
• Automate ingestion of scan results into central data store.
• Create visualisations for vulnerability metrics for reports.
• Maintain dashboards weekly and coordinate remediation with site administrators.

Skills

Vulnerability management

Security assessments

Data pipelines

SQL

Python scripting

Power BI

Grafana

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in related discipline

Tools

Tenable Nessus

Qualys

OpenVAS

PostgreSQL

MS SQL

Power BI

Grafana

Python

PowerShell

Job description

Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO, UN, EU, and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services, specialised aerospace and defence sales, delivery, and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.

Who we are supporting

The NATO Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) is responsible for providing secure and effective communications and information technology (IT) services to NATO's member countries and its partners. The agency was established in 2012 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

The NCIA provides a wide range of services, including:

• Cyber Security: The NCIA provides advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect NATO's communication networks and information systems against cyber threats.
• Command and Control Systems: The NCIA develops and maintains the systems used by NATO's military commanders to plan and execute operations.
• Satellite Communications: The NCIA provides satellite communications services to enable secure and reliable communications between NATO forces.
• Electronic Warfare: The NCIA provides electronic warfare services to support NATO's mission to detect, deny, and defeat threats to its communication networks.
• Information Management: The NCIA manages NATO's information technology infrastructure, including its databases, applications, and servers.

Overall, the NCIA plays a critical role in ensuring the security and effectiveness of NATO's communication and information technology capabilities.

The program

Assistance and Advisory Service (AAS)

The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) is NATO’s principal C3 capability deliverer and CIS service provider. It provides, maintains and defends the NATO enterprise-wide information technology infrastructure to enable Allies to consult together under Article IV, and, when required, stand together in the face of attack under Article V.

To provide these critical services, in the modern evolving dynamic environment the NCI Agency needs to build and maintain high performance-engaged workforce. The NCI Agency workforce strategically consists of three major categorise's: NATO International Civilians (NIC)'s, Military (Mil), and Interim Workforce Consultants (IWC)'s. The IWCs are a critical part of the overall NCI Agency workforce and make up approximately 15 percent of the total workforce.

Role ID –C005337

RoleDuties and Responsibilities

• Perform security assessment and technical analysis, including but not limited to:
• Analyse the results of the vulnerability assessments on a weekly basis;
• Prepare, for every assessment report, a remediation plan and provide it to theappropriate technicalpoint of contact;
• Interpret complex technical findings and provide remediation support to system administrators;
• Assess the technical impact of the vulnerabilitiesin order toprioritise remediation;
• Providetechnical guidance, on a weekly basis, on the hardening measuresrequiredat operating system,databaseand network level.
• Build andmaintainthe vulnerability data architecture andvisualisation ecosystem, including but not limited to:
• Design, build andmaintaina relational database or structureddata repository aggregating raw vulnerability scan data from thevarious sources;
• Automate the ingestion of scan results into the central database(data pipeline);
• Develop andmaintaindynamic dashboards, using datavisualisation and analytics platform such as Power BI or Grafana;
• Create visualisations for vulnerability metrics supportingoperational and management reporting;
• Maintain and update the database and the dashboards on aweekly basis.
• Perform remediation tracking and site coordination, including butnot limited to:
• Act as the technical point of contact for remediation towards siteadministrators and system owners;
• Monitor andmaintainthe tracking of remediation activities;
• Produce weekly and monthly reports for the variousstakeholders;
• Chair technical coordination meetings with site administratorstoresolve remediation roadblocks.
• Execute coordination and information gathering activities withinNCSC, NCIA and with stakeholders in support of the aboveactivities andprovide at the end of the period of performance aclosure report summarising athigh levelthe activities carried out.

EssentialSkills,Experienceand Certifications

Experience:

• At least 5 years of practical experience in vulnerability management, with proven experience within the last 6 months;
• At least 3 years of experience in testing andvalidatingthat contracted deliveries meet the security requirements and fulfil the intended use cases;
• General knowledge of cyber security principles, best practices,conceptsand technology;
• Knowledge of cyber security architectures, including boundary protection, encryption, identity and access management, monitoring and detection, incident response, vulnerabilityassessmentsand risk management;
• Practical experience with vulnerability scanners and their output formats, such as Tenable Nessus, Qualys or OpenVAS;
• Demonstrated experience in building and operating data repositories and reporting pipelines for large volumes of security scan data.

Skills:

• Database skills:proficiencyin SQL (e.g. PostgreSQL, MS SQL)for data modelling,queryingand storing large datasets of scanresults;
• BI tools: advancedproficiencyin Microsoft Power BI (datamodelling, DAX) OR Grafana (connecting to SQL data sources,visualising time-series data);
• Scriptingproficiencyin Python (Pandas/NumPy) or PowerShellfor parsing scan logs and automating data entry;
• Ability to take ownership of tasks and strong motivation toaccomplishthem to the end, working both independently andwithin a team;
• Very goodcommunication, analytical and writing skills;
• Languageproficiencyin English: meet or exceed the NATOSTANAG 6001 Level 3 "Professional Proficiency".
• Training/certifications:
• Relevant certifications in cyber security, such as CertifiedInformation Security Manager (CISM), Certified InformationSystems Security Professional (CISSP)or GIAC Securitycertifications;
• Relevant certifications in data analytics or business intelligence,such as Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300) orGrafana Certified Professional, are an advantage.
• Familiarity with NATO security policy and supporting directives;
• Experience in working for or supporting a military orgovernmental organization.

Education:

• A minimum requirement of abachelor'sdegree at a nationallyrecognised/certified University in a related discipline and 3 yearspost-related experience;
• Or exceptionally, the lack of a university degree may becompensated by the demonstration of a candidate's particularabilities or experience that is/are of interest to NCIA, that is, atleast 10 years extensive and progressive expertise in dutiesrelated to those in this Statement of Work.

Working Location

Working Policy

• On-site

Travel

• Travel m ay berequiredto travel to NATO/NCIA locations, principally in Brussels, to attend meetings with stakeholders. Such travel is expected tooccur no more than once per month, for a total not to exceed 12 meetings per year.
• Each travel will be a maximum of 2 days in length.

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATOSecretpersonal security clearance