Required Skills: cybersecurity , Cybersecurity products , audit , SOX , NERC
Job Description
Cybersecurity Project Manager
Key Skills
- Managing large-scale infrastructure, cybersecurity, or enterprise software implementations. Focus could be on implementing cybersecurity products.
- As Tanium is an IT management and cybersecurity platform that helps large companies manage and protect thousands of computers and servers from one central system.
Risk, Compliance & Quality Management
- Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and issues.
- Ensure compliance with cybersecurity, audit, SOX, NERC, and organizational requirements.
- Develop mitigation plans for schedule, budget, and technical challenges.
- Track dependencies impacting project delivery and operational readiness.
- Drive quality assurance activities and project acceptance processes.
Reporting & Communications
- Develop executive dashboards, KPIs, metrics, and status reports.
- Present project health, milestones, risks, and accomplishments to senior leadership.
- Maintain project documentation, decision logs, RAID logs, and operational transition plans.
- Provide consolidated reporting on deployment status, project progress, and business outcomes.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field.
- 8+ years of IT project or program management experience.
- 5+ years managing large-scale infrastructure, cybersecurity, or enterprise software implementations.
- Demonstrated experience managing enterprise endpoint management or security platform deployments.
- Strong knowledge of project management methodologies, including Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid delivery models.
- Experience managing budgets exceeding $500,000 and coordinating cross-functional teams.
- Exceptional communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience with Microsoft Project, Planisware, Jira, or similar project management tools.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience implementing or managing Tanium platform deployments.
- Experience with cybersecurity operations, vulnerability management, endpoint security, or IT asset management.
- Understanding of regulatory frameworks such as SOX, NERC-CIP, PCI, or similar compliance requirements.
- PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum Master, or equivalent certification.
- Experience leading cloud, infrastructure modernization, and operating system lifecycle programs.
- Utility industry or critical infrastructure experience preferred.
Core Competencies
- Strategic Planning
- Program Governance
- Executive Communication
- Vendor Management
- Financial Management
- Risk & Issue Management
- Change Management
- Infrastructure & Operations Management
- Cybersecurity Program Delivery
- Cross-Functional Leadership
- Continuous Improvement
- Stakeholder Engagement
Success Measures The Senior IT Project Manager will be measured on:
- Successful delivery of Tanium project milestones.
- Achievement of schedule, budget, and scope objectives.
- Endpoint deployment and adoption targets.
- Compliance and audit readiness outcomes.
- Stakeholder satisfaction and executive reporting quality.
- Reduction of operational and security risks.