Cyber Security Program Manager

Clearance Required

Status

Position Summary

Why This Role

Minimum Qualifications (Required)

• Typical minimum qualifications for this labor category include:
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related field (Master's degree preferred).
• At least ten (10) years of experience managing large-scale cybersecurity programs.
• A current Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent project management certification.
• A current Secret-level personnel security clearance.
• Experience managing contracts of similar size and complexity.
• Experience with federal government cybersecurity requirements.
• Availability to begin within the timeframe specified at contract award.

Preferred / Distinguishing Qualifications

• Candidates who stand out for this role typically also bring:
• A demonstrated track record of modernizing or streamlining an RMF/A&A program — e.g., leveraging and extending existing continuous monitoring or continuous authorization (cATO) practices, or recommending automation of control assessment/POA&M workflows or integration of security into CI/CD pipelines (DevSecOps) where appropriate.
• Visible thought leadership in the RMF/cybersecurity-compliance community: published articles or white papers, conference or webinar speaking engagements, active participation in NIST or industry working groups, or contributions to public RMF tooling or methodology.
• Experience getting the most out of a customer's existing GRC platforms and automation tooling, and recommending new tooling only where it clearly reduces manual compliance burden for both the contractor and customer teams.
• A history of building, mentoring, and retaining strong ISSO or cybersecurity compliance teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Core responsibilities of this role typically include:
• Serve as the primary point of contact for all contractual, administrative, and performance matters under the contract.
• Provide overall leadership, resource planning, and coordination to ensure deliverables and timelines are met.
• Interface directly with the Contracting Officer (CO) and Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) to resolve issues and report status.
• In addition, consistent with standard program management expectations for this type of engagement, the PM is expected to:
• Own the program's staffing plan, including recruitment, retention, and timely substitution of personnel consistent with Key Personnel requirements.
• Lead risk identification, issue resolution, and change-management processes.
• Prepare and deliver periodic status reports (activities, progress against milestones, performance metrics, risks, resource utilization, financial status).
• Oversee quality assurance and quality control for all deliverables prior to customer submission.
• Coordinate transition-in and, at contract completion, transition-out activities, including knowledge transfer to a successor contractor.
• Ensure continuity of Key Personnel roles and provide the customer prompt notice of any proposed change.
• Identify opportunities to get more value from the customer's existing RMF practice, and recommend continuous monitoring/authorization approaches, automation, or other process improvements where appropriate, building the business case to bring them to the customer's stakeholders.