*Candidate must also be able to work onsite up to 3 days/week

*Candidate MUST possess Active Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP)

*Candidate MUST have documented risk management experience

*Candidate MUST have a completion of a Category 1 or 2 Commonwealth project of $5M or more, or completion of non-COV project with a value greater than $10M as PM of record.

*Preferred Candidates:  Active PMP Certification, Active Commonwealth PM Certification, Commonwealth risk management experience and has completed a Commonwealth Category 1 or 2 project of $5M or more.

VDOT is seeking a senior, experienced IT Project Manager to join the Project & Product Delivery portfolio. This position is in Mechanicsville, Virginia.

Candidate will lead and manage projects within the Project& Product Delivery team utilizing Agile, SAFe, Waterfall and Kanban methodologies. Ability to work closely with all stakeholders including the senior leadership, business, cross functional teams and vendors.

 

·Drives consistent project delivery through the entire project lifecycle, including: project plans, release plans, resource allocation, and management of project risks, scope, schedule, and delivery of value.

·Coordinates Agile Ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Refinement, and Release Planning.

·Tracks and communicates project's progress from a schedule, cost, and risk perspective to the project team, stakeholders, and management.

·Establishes an environment where the teams can be effective and helps removing obstacles.

·Protects the team from outside interruptions and distractions.

·Ensures a good relationship between the team and product owner as well as others outside the team.

·Tracks and reports team velocity and other project metrics.

·Promotes continuous improvement and helps teams to increase productivity.

·Helps Product Owner and team with Product backlog management.

·Ensures the teams are practicing core Agile, Waterfall and VITA principles and processes.

·Adheres to VDOT and VITA project management practices as defined.

·Additional responsibilities as assigned.

 

·Solid understanding of software development lifecycle models as well as expert knowledge of Agile project management principles and practices.

·Ability to work with customers, understand their business practices and manage their expectations.

·Ability to set clear performance standards and hold team members accountable, while keeping team engaged and on track.

·Ability to help Product Owners to create and prioritize Product Backlog.

·Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building.

·Strong analytical, organizational and decision-making skills.

·Ability to analyze and document business and system processes.

·Ability to balance the competing demands for quality, scope, schedule, and cost.

·Well-versed with Scrum and Kanban Agile methodologies.

·Experience with SAFe framework is a plus.

Active Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) - 8 Years

Documented risk management experience - 5 Years

Completion of a Category 1 or 2 Commonwealth project of $5M or more - 2 years

Completion of non-COV project with a value greater than $10M as PM of record. - Required

 

Platform Administration & Ownership 

Serve as the primary operator and SME for the Google SecOps platform

Monitor platform health, ingestion pipelines, and data flow

Maintain and optimize UDM mappings, parsers, and connectors

Troubleshoot ingestion and normalization issues

Support case management workflows and automation

 

Develop, tune, and maintain detection rules and analytics

Perform proactive threat hunting across enterprise telemetry

Reduce false positives and improve alert fidelity

Leverage threat intelligence for enrichment and correlation 

Build dashboards and operational metrics

Onboard and normalize new log sources across IT (and OT where applicable)

Validate telemetry coverage and identify visibility gaps

Partner with infrastructure and application teams to expand logging

Improve enrichment and correlation quality 

Optimize ingestion pipelines for performance and scale

 

    Partner with SOC analysts to improve workflows and usability

    Provide mentoring and knowledge transfer to junior staff

    Document runbooks, standards, and operational procedures

    Support incident investigations when required

    Communicate technical findings to stakeholders

    Identify platform maturity gaps and improvement opportunities

    Recommend and implement automation use cases

    Establish operational best practices

    Support roadmap development for SecOps growth

    Measure and report on platform effectiveness

    Security Operations, SIEM engineering, or detection engineering

    Hands-on experience with Google SecOps / Chronicle

    Experience working within SOC or Incident Response environments

    Strong background onboarding and normalizing log sources

    Experience tuning detections and reducing alert noise

    Proven ability to work independently in client environments

 

    UDM and parser tuning

    Detection rule development

    Log ingestion pipelines

    SOAR / automation workflows

    Threat intelligence integration

    Query development and data analysis

    Cloud telemetry (GCP, AWS, or Azure)

 

    OT / ICS security experience

    Oil, gas, refinery, or energy sector experience

    Familiarity with industrial protocols (Modbus, DNP3, OPC)

    Experience bridging IT and OT telemetry

    Threat hunting or purple team background