ECS is seeking a Sr. Project Manager to work remotely. Please Note: This position is contingent upon contract award.
As a leading managed cybersecurity services provider, ECS delivers a highly tailored and customized offering to each customer. The Professional Services Team is responsible for working with our customers to understand their needs and delivering a complete solution. We will leverage your unique skills to help solve customers’ challenges, such as engineering a system to address a technical hurdle, protecting customer data, or consulting on a wide range security topics. You are empowered to engage and lead across multiple groups and must have the self-sufficiency and focus to work well without constant oversight.
Responsibilities
- Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of cybersecurity projects and initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise or mission security objectives.
- Develop and maintain project roadmaps, schedules, and milestones to deliver cybersecurity capabilities such as threat detection, vulnerability management, and compliance automation.
- Establish and enforce governance frameworks to ensure adherence to cybersecurity policies, NIST and ISO standards, and applicable regulatory requirements.
- Manage project scope, resources, budgets, and risks, ensuring on-time and within-scope delivery of technical security solutions.
- Coordinate across cyber operations, engineering, cloud, and risk management teams to ensure seamless implementation and integration of cybersecurity technologies and processes.
- Track and report key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure project delivery, cybersecurity maturity, and stakeholder satisfaction.
- Conduct post-project reviews to evaluate success criteria, document lessons learned, and identify opportunities to enhance security effectiveness.
- Stay current on emerging threats, evolving compliance mandates, and innovative cybersecurity technologies to proactively guide program strategy and project planning.
Salary Range: $155,000 – $175,000
General Description of Benefits
Qualifications
- Cybersecurity Project Management: Proven ability to lead complex cybersecurity initiatives spanning areas such as cloud security, identity and access management (IAM), endpoint protection, and SIEM/SOAR deployment.
- Technical Understanding: Working knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks and technologies, including NIST RMF, MITRE ATT&CK, zero trust architecture, and cloud-native security controls.
- Leadership: Experience directing multidisciplinary teams, coordinating stakeholders, and providing clear technical and operational direction in a cybersecurity context.
- Risk Management: Skilled in identifying, assessing, and mitigating project and technical risks impacting information assurance and compliance.
- Communication: Strong ability to articulate security program objectives and technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Analytical Thinking: Adept at translating cybersecurity metrics and data into actionable insights for continuous improvement.
- Collaboration: Effective at building partnerships across IT, engineering, and governance functions to ensure integrated cybersecurity delivery.
- Strategic Mindset: Capable of developing and implementing initiatives that strengthen cybersecurity posture and operational resilience.
- Attention to Detail: Maintains precision in documentation, risk registers, compliance reports, and technical deliverables.
- Negotiation & Conflict Resolution: Skilled at balancing mission goals, technical constraints, and stakeholder expectations to achieve successful project outcomes.
- Travel & Clearance Readiness: Willing to travel domestically or internationally for short, planned engagements; must possess and maintain a valid U.S. Passport.
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