Senior Project Manager Contract

Client: Government
Type: Contract
Role: Senior Project Manager(s) (Cybersecurity)
Term: 6 Months to start
Pay Rate: $90.00 – $100
Start date: 2-3 weeks
Location: Hybrid
Req ID: RQ08040

Requirements: What you’ll need

Skills, Knowledge, Experience, and Qualifications:

Must Haves:

Ensures project deliverables meet clients’ business requirements on time, scope, and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.
·       Enterprise VPN and Remote Access Solutions (Palo Alto Prisma Access – Preferred)
·       Zero Trust Network Access implementation across an enterprise network
·       Network Security Enhancements: example, upgrading and consolidating legacy firewall to Next Gen Firewall, firewall policy optimization.
·       Cloud Security Integration, example implementation of Web Application Firewall and Firewall Policy Manager

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Network Security experience:

Demonstrate advanced experience managing enterprise scale network security projects and deep understanding of network security technologies:
·       Enterprise VPN and Remote Access Solutions (Palo Alto Prisma Access – Preferred)
·       Zero Trust Network Access implementation across an enterprise network
·       Network Security Enhancements: example, upgrading and consolidating legacy firewall to Next Gen Firewall, firewall policy optimization.
·       Cloud Security Integration, example implementation of Web Application Firewall and Firewall Policy Manager

Project Management skills:

·       Demonstrate complex project management skills, and the ability to mitigate project risks in large-scale environments 10+ years
·       Gathers and develops requirements and works with project stakeholders and ITS project managers to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
·       Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope.
·       Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards.
·       Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures.
·       Ability to clarify roles and responsibilities and set task/deliverable/performance expectations for project team members.
·       Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
·       Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
·       Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums.
·       Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
·       Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects – concept, definition, planning, implementation, and close-out.
·       Promotes OPS I&IT standards and best practices for project management to facilitate control of system quality, adherence to standard methodology and the control of the use of I&IT resources.

Deliverables:

Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high-risk network-security focused deployment and migration projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.

Ensures project deliverables meet clients’ business requirements on time, scope, and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.

Works closely with internal OPS teams and vendors to ensure the successful acceptance, timely execution, and day-2 supportability and operability of all project changes and deliverables.

·       Provide senior project management oversight and support for cyber security platforms that are currently being deployed and rolled out within the OPS over 2024-25 fiscal year.
·       In addition, to lead and provide project management support for smaller security-focused projects, initiatives or iterative improvements as required based on need and capacity throughout the year.
·       Palo Alto Prisma Access, Always on VPN and Secure Service Edge related projects or sprints.
·       Other Network security and firewall related migration and improvement related projects and initiatives

HOW TO APPLY

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