Senior Project Manager

Title: Project Manager

Location: Onsite – Washington, DC (telework at client discretion)

Terms: Full-time

Salary: $140K - $175K

Clearance: Public Trust

Travel: Minimal – occasional CONUS travel (approximately one week per year)

Position Description

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to be responsible for managing specific cybersecurity projects for a federal cybersecurity engineering program. The Project Manager follows the client’s established project management processes and lifecycles and uses the client’s project management and change management procedures. This role brings expert knowledge in one or more areas of IT and/or cybersecurity, provides problem-solving capabilities and solutions to complex security issues, manages multiple projects, teams, and tasks at once, and guides and assists staff in other cyber-related areas.

The successful candidate will:

• Deliver cybersecurity engineering projects from inception to completion using Agile methodology.
• Complete assigned project work tasks on time through the client’s change management process.
• Keep stakeholders informed through regular project status briefings.
• Provide solutions to complex security issues across multiple projects.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage internal cybersecurity engineering projects from inception to completion; the program typically manages about ten projects a year, known as Requests for Change (RFCs).
• Support and complete assigned RFC work tasks for cybersecurity projects and other CIO-directorate efforts, approximately 250–300 project-related work tasks per year.
• Execute and manage projects using an Agile methodology wherever applicable.
• Follow the client’s established project management processes and lifecycles, and its project management and change management procedures.
• Develop and brief project status reports for each project every two weeks.
• Support development and management of the cybersecurity engineering program’s internal sites and document repository.
• Manage multiple projects, teams, and tasks concurrently.
• Provide problem-solving capabilities and solutions to complex security issues.
• Guide and assist staff in other cyber-related areas.

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, Management, or a related discipline from an accredited institution and 10 or more years of project management experience, at least 5 of which were spent managing Agile projects.
• Experience managing and leading IT or cybersecurity-related projects.
• PMP and SAFe Agile and/or Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or equivalent certifications.
• Expert knowledge in one or more areas of IT and/or cybersecurity, with at least 10 years of experience in that specialized area.
• Strong working knowledge of federal requirements and technical experience working with IT systems.
• Ability to multitask, including management of multiple projects, teams, and tasks.

Desired

• Experience serving as a Project Manager on federal government contracts, including working within government change control, deliverable review, and status reporting requirements.
• Experience with IT service management and work-tracking tools such as BMC Helix ITSM, Jira, and SharePoint.
• Experience managing cybersecurity tool deployment projects (e.g., SIEM, vulnerability management, endpoint protection).
• Cybersecurity certifications such as CompTIA Security+ or CISSP.

Work Authorization/Clearance: Must be a US Citizen and have or are able to obtain a Federal Government Public Trust clearance.

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Salary: 140000.0 - 175000.0 USD