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Atos designs, develops, and operates critical digital environments that drive performance, resilience and sovereignty, helping public and private organizations worldwide retain control over their data and infrastructures, while meeting regulatory requirements.\nWith more than 52,000 employees serving over 4,500 clients across 54 countries, Atos helps modernize core IT systems, accelerate cloud and data transformation, strengthen cybersecurity, and deliver secure digital workplace environments to support its clients, its employees and society. Atos also provides consulting and advisory services through its Atos Amplify brand.\nA trusted partner in operating complex and mission-critical environments, Atos supports organizations across highly regulated and sovereign contexts.\nAbout Atos Group\nAtos Group is a global leader in digital transformation with c. 54,000 employees and annual revenue of c. €7.2 billion, operating in 54 countries under two brands - Atos for services and Eviden for products and systems. European number one in cybersecurity and a leader in cloud, Atos Group is committed to a secure and decarbonized future and provides tailored AI-powered, end-to-end solutions for all industries. Atos Group is listed on Euronext Paris.\nWho we are\nWe are a team of passionate experts with a clear ambition: applying digital technology to advance what matters for our clients and society. Together, we create reliable and responsive digital foundations for the world’s businesses, institutions and communities.\nOur Cyber Advisory & Assurance Services team helps organisations understand cyber risk, strengthen resilience and confidently embrace digital transformation. Through specialist expertise, trusted partnerships and innovative service delivery, we provide practical cyber security solutions that create measurable value for our clients.\nJob in a nutshell\nAs our UK&I Pentesting Operations Lead, you will be responsible for the operational leadership, governance and continuous improvement of our penetration testing services across the United Kingdom and Ireland.\nYou will oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of penetration testing engagements delivered through a combination of internal teams and trusted specialist partners, ensuring that engagements are effectively scoped, scheduled, delivered, quality assured and commercially managed.\nWorking closely with clients, account teams, delivery teams and third-party penetration testing providers, you will help create a scalable, repeatable and high-quality service that supports growth across the UK&I.\nThis role could suit an experienced penetration testing lead seeking a broader operational leadership position, or an operations, PMO or service-delivery professional working within a penetration testing or offensive security organisation who is ready to take the next step in their career.\nHands-on penetration testing expertise is beneficial but not essential. We are primarily seeking someone with a strong understanding of penetration testing delivery, service operations, stakeholder management and supplier governance. Over time, you will also help shape the evolution of offensive security services, including AI-assisted testing, AI red teaming and security assurance for AI-enabled systems.\nWhat will you be doing?\nLead the UK&I penetration testing service\nOwn the operational delivery framework for penetration testing services across the UK & Ireland.\nRe-engineer and simplify operational processes to improve consistency, efficiency and scalability.\nEstablish and maintain service governance, operating procedures, controls, metrics and reporting.\nManage service demand, delivery pipelines, capacity constraints and operational priorities.\nPromote high standards of delivery quality, client experience and continuous improvement.\n\nCoordinate and orchestrate testing engagements\nAct as the central coordination point for penetration testing engagements.\nSchedule testing activities across internal teams and multiple third-party providers.\nCoordinate clients, account teams, delivery stakeholders and testing partners throughout the engagement lifecycle.\nTrack dependencies, risks, actions and delivery milestones from initiation through to closure.\nResolve scheduling conflicts, operational issues and delivery challenges, escalating where appropriate.\n\nSupport engagement scoping\nSupport clients and account teams in clarifying testing requirements and desired outcomes.\nWork with specialist providers to define suitable scopes, assumptions, testing methods and rules of engagement.\nHelp ensure engagements are appropriately sized, planned, scheduled and commercially viable.\nMaintain consistent scoping templates and acceptance criteria across different categories of testing.\nHelp stakeholders understand the most suitable testing approach for their systems, risks and assurance needs.\n\nManage external testing partners\nManage day-to-day operational relationships with third-party penetration testing providers.\nCoordinate the allocation of work across approved suppliers according to capability, availability and commercial requirements.\nMonitor delivery performance, quality, responsiveness and adherence to agreed service expectations.\nSupport supplier onboarding, due diligence and periodic service reviews.\nAct as the operational escalation point and drive constructive improvement across the partner ecosystem.\n\nAssure quality and client outcomes\nOversee the quality and completeness of engagement outputs before they are issued to clients.\nConfirm that reports are clear, consistent and aligned with the agreed scope and expected professional standards.\nCoordinate the clarification of findings between clients and testing providers.\nCapture lessons learned and convert them into improvements to processes, templates and supplier performance.\nSupport effective communication of technical findings and associated business risk.\n\nMaintain commercial and financial control\nTrack engagements from initial request through delivery, acceptance and commercial closure.\nMaintain visibility of pipeline, revenue, costs, margins and delivery forecasts.\nCoordinate purchase orders, supplier invoices, client billing and internal approvals.\nWork with finance, account and delivery teams to support timely and accurate commercial administration.\nIdentify operational or commercial leakage and implement proportionate corrective action.\n\nDevelop the capability\nCreate standardised methods, templates, governance artefacts and delivery playbooks.\nSupport bids, proposals, client workshops, statements of work and service presentations.\nIdentify opportunities to improve efficiency through workflow automation and appropriate tooling.\nUse service data and stakeholder feedback to prioritise improvement initiatives.\nHelp shape new offensive security propositions and routes to market.\n\nAI and emerging offensive security services\nAs the service matures, you will help shape future capabilities. This may include:\nAI-assisted penetration testing and the responsible use of automation within testing workflows.\nSecurity testing of AI-enabled applications and services.\nAI red teaming and adversarial testing approaches.\nAssessment of large language model security risks and abuse cases.\nTesting approaches for agentic AI systems, tools, permissions and trust boundaries.\nEmerging offensive security methods, platforms and assurance services.\n\nExperience and skills\nExperience working within penetration testing, offensive security, security assurance, cyber consulting or a closely related professional-services environment.\nA sound understanding of the end-to-end penetration testing delivery lifecycle.\nExperience coordinating complex activities across clients, delivery teams, suppliers and other stakeholders.\nExperience managing external suppliers, partners or outsourced services.\nStrong operational planning, organisation and prioritisation skills.\nExperience improving processes, governance or service-delivery practices.\nStrong stakeholder-management skills and the confidence to manage competing priorities.\nThe ability to balance client outcomes, delivery quality, operational constraints and commercial objectives.\nClear written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain technical issues to non-technical stakeholders.\nA collaborative, accountable and improvement-focused approach.\n\nTechnical understanding\nYou should have sufficient technical understanding to support scoping, challenge delivery assumptions and oversee the quality of testing engagements. Relevant areas include:\nInfrastructure penetration testing.\nWeb application and API security testing.\nCloud security testing.\nInternal and external security assessments.\nVulnerability assessment and validation.\nRed teaming and adversary simulation concepts.\nReporting, risk communication and remediation validation.\n\nDesirable\nExperience leading penetration testing engagements, teams or operational functions.\nExperience working within or alongside a CREST-accredited penetration testing provider.\nFamiliarity with CREST, CHECK and relevant NCSC assurance expectations.\nExperience managing a portfolio of work across several testing providers.\nKnowledge of demand management, resource forecasting, PMO or service-management practices.\nFamiliarity with ITIL principles and operational service transition.\nExperience supporting bids, proposals, pre-sales discovery or client workshops.\nRelevant cyber security, project, service-management or operational-delivery 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