The Role
Lead and manage complex IT/PKI programs, coordinating schedules, teams, and stakeholders. Provide deep PKI technical guidance, ensure compliance with security and regulatory requirements, navigate military security boundaries, oversee AD/LDAP replication and certificate issuance dependencies, and drive IT modernization including post-quantum transition.
Summary Generated by Built In
Place of Performance: Hybrid / Meetings at Ft Meade, MD
Days/Hours: Monday Through Friday, 8am-5pm, Weekend Federal Holidays Off
Clearance: SECRET
Education/Certification: IT Engineering BS, PMP
Years of Experience: 8+ years project management, including IT/PKI expertise
The Program Manager must possess project management skills in an IT environment
and a highly specialized blend of deep technical PKI knowledge, rigorous regulatory and
compliance expertise, and proven IT modernization leadership.
Responsibilities:
Days/Hours: Monday Through Friday, 8am-5pm, Weekend Federal Holidays Off
Clearance: SECRET
Education/Certification: IT Engineering BS, PMP
Years of Experience: 8+ years project management, including IT/PKI expertise
The Program Manager must possess project management skills in an IT environment
and a highly specialized blend of deep technical PKI knowledge, rigorous regulatory and
compliance expertise, and proven IT modernization leadership.
Responsibilities:
- Analyzes new and complex project related problems and creates innovative solutions involving finance, scheduling, technology, methodology, tools, and solution components.
- Performs day-to-day management of overall project/contract support operations, possibly involving multiple tasks and groups of personnel at multiple locations.
- Organizes, directs, and coordinates the planning and production of all activities associated with assigned project.
- Provides a project schedule to identify when each task will be completed
- Communicates clearly expectations to team members and stakeholders
- This role demands more than standard IT project coordination; the PM must actively navigate strict military security boundaries, hardware cryptographic standards, and the transition to Post-Quantum Computing.
- The PM must understand the dependencies between certificate issuance, Active Directory/Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) replication, and endpoint enrollment.
- The PM must bridge the gap between policy requirements and technical implementation and be able to translate compliance, policy, and security framework guidelines into actionable project tasks.
Skills Required
- Active SECRET security clearance
- BS in IT Engineering
- PMP certification
- 8+ years project management experience including IT/PKI expertise
- Deep technical PKI knowledge
- Regulatory and compliance expertise related to security frameworks
- IT modernization leadership, including transition planning for post-quantum computing
- Understanding of certificate issuance, AD/LDAP replication, and endpoint enrollment dependencies
- Strong IT project management skills in an enterprise/military security environment
- Ability to translate compliance and policy into actionable technical project tasks
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The Company
What We Do
SBA certified SDB, appraised CMMI Level 3 company providing IT services to the federal government. Specializing in cyber security, enterprise architecture, service oriented architecture, business intelligence, and large data management. Our services span throughout the federal government, mainly concentrated in Department of Homeland Security and Defense Information Systems Agency.
