Project Manager Cybersecurity
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About the Role
Keolis seeks a Cybersecurity Project Manager to lead delivery of RTA-sponsored cybersecurity initiatives for Dubai's metro and tram environment. The role requires managing contractors, ensuring compliance with standards like ISO 27001 and IEC 62443, and coordinating with stakeholders.
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Responsibilities
- Lead end to end delivery of RTA sponsored cybersecurity initiatives, ensuring project governance, milestones, and deliverables align with the RFP, contract, and agreed acceptance criteria
- Maintain a secure by design approach across project life cycle stages, ensuring cybersecurity requirements are built in early and evidenced through testing and documentation
- Ensure solutions align with applicable local and international cybersecurity standards, and rail industry expectations for safety critical environments
- Manage delivery to agreed budget and schedule baselines for large programmes, including forecasting, variance analysis, and change control
- Act as KM’s primary day to day project manager interface for RTA and the contractor, ensuring transparent communication, clear action tracking, and timely escalation
- Establish and maintain the full project controls pack, including integrated schedule, RAID log, decision log, change register, and acceptance tracker
- Lead delivery planning and execution for work performed in constrained access windows, typically engineering hours, ensuring correct sequencing, readiness, and rollback planning
- Own and manage all approvals required for implementation in critical infrastructure environments, including RTA CIMP, ACCA, and PTW
- Manage quality assurance across delivery stages including design reviews, FAT, PICO, SAT, SIT, UAT, security testing, cutover planning, and handover
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related discipline
- Strong project management experience in the GCC, preferably within transport, rail, or critical infrastructure environments
- Experience in delivering large scale projects of AED 20m and above, with evidence of schedule and budget ownership
- Demonstrated experience managing contractors and sub contractors in live operational environments with constrained access windows
- Practical exposure to OT/ICS environments and the cybersecurity constraints of safety critical systems
- Project management certification such as PMP or PRINCE2 Practitioner
- One or more recognised cybersecurity certifications such as CISSP, CISM, ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Implementer or Lead Auditor, GICSP, or IEC 62443 focused certification
- Strong documentation and reporting skills for governance packs, progress reporting, and acceptance evidence
- Fluent English, written and spoken
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Role Overview
- The Project Manager Cybersecurity controls the day to day delivery interface between RTA, the contractor, and internal KM stakeholders, ensuring governance, milestones, deliverables, and acceptance evidence meet the contractual requirements and the RFP.
- The role is accountable for planning and coordinating all operational gating required for implementation within a live rail environment, including KM change control.
- Delivery is typically executed within restricted engineering access windows, and requires disciplined readiness checks, testing, communications, contingency planning, and rollback capability.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end to end delivery of RTA sponsored cybersecurity initiatives, ensuring project governance, milestones, and deliverables align with the RFP, contract, and agreed acceptance criteria.
- Maintain a secure by design approach across project life cycle stages, ensuring cybersecurity requirements are built in early and evidenced through testing and documentation.
- Ensure solutions align with applicable local and international cybersecurity standards, and rail industry expectations for safety critical environments, including DESC ISR v3.1, DESC ICS v1.0, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, IEC 62443, and CLC/TS 50701:2023.
- Work in partnership with RTA RMD (Rail Maintenance Department) governance.
- Operate within governance chaired by RTA (typically RTA RMD), ensuring key milestones and acceptance decisions are jointly signed off by RTA and Keolis MHI in line with the contract and RFP.
- Manage delivery to agreed budget and schedule baselines for large programmes, including forecasting, variance analysis, and change control.
- Control scope and cost impacts through disciplined management of variations, claims, and dependencies, working with the Project and Innovation Department on KPIs, commercial controls, and penalty exposure.
- Monitor contractor performance against delivery KPIs and milestone evidence, escalating deviations through the Project and Innovation Department governance.
- Act as KM’s primary day to day project manager interface for RTA and the contractor, ensuring transparent communication, clear action tracking, and timely escalation.
- Coordinate strongly with the Head of Cybersecurity and the cybersecurity team to align delivery with security governance and operational needs.
- Align internal stakeholders across IT, OT, Operations, Maintenance, Safety, and QHSE to ensure delivery is practical for a live metro environment.
- Establish and maintain the full project controls pack, including integrated schedule, RAID log (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies), decision log, change register, and acceptance tracker.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related discipline.
- Strong project management experience in the GCC, preferably within transport, rail, or critical infrastructure environments.
- Experience in delivering large scale projects of AED 20m and above, with evidence of schedule and budget ownership.
- Demonstrated experience managing contractors and sub contractors in live operational environments with constrained access windows.
- Practical exposure to OT/ICS environments and the cybersecurity constraints of safety critical systems.
- Project management certification such as PMP or PRINCE2 Practitioner.
- One or more recognised cybersecurity certifications such as CISSP, CISM, ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Implementer or Lead Auditor, GICSP, or IEC 62443 focused certification.
- Strong documentation and reporting skills for governance packs, progress reporting, and acceptance evidence.
- Fluent English, written and spoken.
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