Cybersecurity Project Manager

$112,450 - $203,275/Yr

Leidos - Fort Meade, MD

Full-time

Fort Meade, MD

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Cybersecurity Project Manager will oversee and manage various projects within the Defense Enclave Services team, focusing on cybersecurity engineering and operations. This role involves collaborating with federal and contractor personnel to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget, while also maintaining strong communication with stakeholders and managing project documentation.

Responsibilities

• Work cooperatively with federal and contractor cybersecurity engineering and/or operations personnel to successfully complete assigned projects within time, scope, and budget constraints.
• Lead, manage, and/or assist engineering, operations, and other project management personnel as needed for each project.
• Develop detailed project plans for resourcing time, funding, materials, and people.
• Keep a well-managed repository of project documentation.
• Develop, review, and update project and other documentation, as needed.
• Build and maintain team and federal government customer relations for consistent and timely communication of dependencies, issues, challenges, and progress.
• Plan, gather, and update artifacts and documentation for future audits, ATO renewals, etc.
• Provide regular reporting to internal program management and the customer in the form of meetings, standardized deliverables, reports, and presentations.
• Develop and improve processes for accomplishing project work.
• Stay up to date on cybersecurity and project management methodologies, techniques, processes, and procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of experience; additional years of directly applicable experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree.
• Minimum eight years' experience in IT engineering, information system security management, and/or operations in a federal customer cybersecurity environment.
• Security+ certification.
• Familiarity with Splunk or other SIEMs.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including experience writing and delivering status reports, meeting minutes capture, project documentation, presentations, as well as leading meetings, stakeholder discussions, etc.
• Strong multitasking skills and attention to detail.
• Experience supporting technical projects, particularly cybersecurity projects.
• Demonstrated ability to work on multiple simultaneous projects and/or technically complex projects.

Nice-to-haves

• CISSP, CISM, or equivalent.
• Additional cybersecurity certifications, e.g. CEH, CIH, CYSA+.
• Experience using Splunk to ingest, evaluate, and report on logs and other data feeds.
• PMP or equivalent, e.g. DOD or DHS project/program management certification, or project management bachelor's/master's degree from accredited institution.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Agile certifications.
• Knowledge of standard security controls per National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-53.
• Project management experience with a U.S. federal customer, especially DoD.
• Demonstrated ability in Microsoft Project®.