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CYBER SECURITY PROJECT MANAGER

The Ciena Government Solutions Team (CGSI) is looking for a highly motivated Project Manager to support cyber security related initiatives. The successful candidate will be responsible for assisting the customer to plan, implement, track and status day-to-day activities and new initiatives while working closely with managers and stakeholders, and security subject matter experts.

Candidate must be a U.S. Citizen, located in the Washington D.C./Baltimore area and possess an active TS SCI clearance w/ full scope poly.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Create, implement, and maintain project plans for on-going and new initiatives
  • Ensure resources are available and made available to perform the required tasks. 
  • Implement tracking mechanism to provide timely and concise updates on progress of initiatives to management, highlighting areas of risk and capturing key decisions.
  • Document meetings minutes and action items and disseminate to meeting participants
  • Monitor status of action items through effective tracking tools and communication of progress and assist with closing of action items
  • Develop and maintain documentation, including PowerPoint briefings, workflow diagrams, Excel spreadsheets, and other project lifecycle artifacts with clearly organized thoughts using proper sentence construction, punctuation, and grammar
  • Capture and manage issues and risks for security related initiatives to meet Customer objectives
  • Provide Quality Control Plan for all relevant requirements
  • Tracks and monitors service orders through completion and turn-up.
  • Prepare deliverables (e.g. status reports, order information, open issues). 
  • Stay abreast of advances in technology.

Required (Minimum) Qualifications:

  • Demonstrated experience working in and managing requirements in an Agile environment
  • Demonstrated experience with Project Management tools (Project Management Framework (PMF), Jira, MS Project, Confluence
  • Demonstrated experience using SharePoint or other collaboration sites to fully utilize online repositories for project management, project communication, or configuration management
  • Demonstrated knowledge of; relationship management CRM software, Oracle E-Business Suite, Project Management software (Project, Primavera). 
  • Demonstrated knowledge of Cyber Security and CIO policies and procedures. 
  • Demonstrated knowledge of computing design concepts and implementation. 
  • Excellent interpersonal, organizational, writing, communications and briefing skills. 
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Strong awareness of technical trends in information technology, develop and maintain a strong awareness of on-going IT projects, and business unit requirements
  • Develop end-to-end cost analysis for projects; ensure systems being developed comply with the enterprise technical architecture; help project and program teams prepare for CIO Project Management Program control gates.

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • Demonstrated experience with security policies and procedures
  • Familiarity with Assessment and Authorization process
  • Familiarity with Risk Management Framework methodology
  • Demonstrated experience in full life cycle project management

Education/Certifications:

  • Required (Minimum):
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a scientific or technical discipline related to the specific skill.

 Computer Science

  • Software Engineering
  • Computer Engineering 
  • Cyber Security
  • Certifications

 Project Management Professional (i.e. PMI-PMP)

 Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)

 Scaled Agile (SAFe) Leadership Coaching Certification

Employment:

Contingent upon successfully completing processing for a security clearance

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