[5654] Event Engineer

Start date: February 2026
Clearance: NATO Secret
Location: Bydgoszcz, Poland

Duties & Role:

• Planning and project development of scheduled exercises, trainings, conferences and other events from the CIS perspective.
• Development of planning documentation related to CIS support for all events and exercises;
• Captures requirements for projects, events and exercises, translates into functional and technical requirements. Coordinates implementation of technical requirements with CSU/NCI Agency technical teams.
• Coordinates and manages new Customer requirements/requests received via CRF (Customer Request Form).
• Represents CSU at planning conferences, workshops and meetings with NCI Agency and Customer regarding planned exercises, projects and programme of work.
• Participate in variety of technical meetings, acts as Subject Matter Expert and advises during Change Advisory Meetings.
• Develops project plans and coordinates with project stakeholders and reports on project execution status and issues.
• Identifies scope of work connected with CIS support to different events.
• Supervises execution of exercises and acts as OPR (Officer Primarily Responsible).
• Advises on technical possibilities within the NCI Agency service portfolio, ensuring that the requirements are understood, captured and coordinated with the Service Lines to support the expected customer outcomes;
• Manages the exercise applications portfolio, licensing, lifecycle, upgrades/updates, capture requirements and coordinate with Customers;
• Stays abreast of technological developments, Service and Project Management methodologies/tools used by NCI Agency
• Contributes to the development of Standard Operating Procedures and Instructions related to CIS infrastructure within Service Management Branch AOR.
• Assesses exercise requirement, develops appropriate technical solutions in coordination with Agency's Service Lines and customer HQ;
• The incumbent may be required to perform other related duties and/or TDY assignments as directed.

Requirements

Skill, Knowledge & Experience:

• The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance

• Experience in Service Delivery in a customer support focused approach;
• Planning of IT networks and infrastructure to include LANs and WANs.
• Broad and in-depth technical knowledge and experience in distributed Information Systems
• Project planning experience and coordination for CIS Service Operation;
• Experience in converting operational requirements into IT requirements.
• ITIL Foundation certification; knowledge of Microsoft and VMware products.
• Experience in planning NATO exercises and events;
• Familiar with NATO applications and systems.
• University degree with 4 years related experience;
• Knowledge of NATO responsibilities and organization, including Allied Command Operations and Allied Command Transformation.
• Prior experience as a system administrator, system engineer or a network engineer working directly with IT systems, virtualizations and networking.
• Technical leadership experience;