Deputy Project Manager

Deputy Project Manager

Key Role:

Provide program support for a government client to mature incident response and security operation center capabilities. Maintain responsibility for project management support towards the delivery of next-generation cyber capabilities and services to a multitude of federal agency clients under the client’s program. Provide support to a federal agency in maturing Cybersecurity Operations through support of a 24x7x365 Security Operations Center, Vulnerability Management, and System Security Engineering. Work across program teams made up of technical personnel, including architects, engineers, data integration, security operations analysts, project cost offices, contracts, procurements, and quality officers, to ensure timely and quality delivery of capabilities and services throughout the period of performance. Provide input to executive-level reports delivered to the clients on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis around cost, schedule, scope, and quality metrics and service objectives. Facilitate discussions with key stakeholders on project statuses, working sessions, technical exchange meetings, and milestone reviews. Due to the nature of work performed within this facility, U.S. citizenship is required.

Basic Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience with program or project management work in cyber security and cloud environments, including schedule management, risk management, scope management, technical delivery, and staff and resources planning 
• Experience with leading a team of skilled engineers, architects, requirements analysts, test engineers, and IT and cyber practitioners
• Experience with various system engineering life cycle methodologies such as waterfall, spiral, or Agile
• Experience with managing project-specific tasks to conduct accurate timeline scheduling and task projections
• Experience with project management tracking technologies, such as Microsoft Project or ServiceNow Project Portfolio Management
• Knowledge of vulnerability management, incident response, security engineering, and security operations capabilities
• Ability to lead discussions with stakeholders to conduct strategic planning, define business objectives, prioritize goals, and mitigate risks related to major cloud service providers and deployment or maturity of capabilities
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements  
• Bachelor's degree

Additional Qualifications:

• Experience with scheduling tools and techniques preferred
• Experience with Cyber technologies and capabilities, including continuous monitoring, incident response, advance threat hunt, secure Cloud and mobile capabilities, on-going assessment, Network Access Control, and threat hunt
• Experience with maturing security operations center (SOC) cloud incident response capabilities
• Experience with Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM) strategy, Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) compliance, and other Cyber policies
• Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Master's degree
• PMP, Security +, CISSP, or related certifications

Vetting:

Applicants selected will be subject to a government investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements of the U.S. government client.

Compensation

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