Project Manager
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Job Location:
Ashburn, IL - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 89700 - 162150
Posted on:
6 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Security Operations Center (SOC) is a US Government program responsible to prevent identify contain and eradicate cyber threats to CBP networks through monitoring intrusion detection and protective security services to CBP information systems including local area networks/wide area networks (LAN/WAN) commercial Internet connection public facing websites wireless mobile/cellular cloud security devices servers and workstations. The CBP SOC is responsible for the overall security of CBP Enterprise-wide information systems and collects investigates and reports any suspected and confirmed security violations.
The Project Manager will be leading critical SOC engineering projects including projects such as launching applications into the AWS Cloud Splunk logging and SIEM implementation etc. The Project Engineer will need to work with the customer to prioritize operational issues engineering activities and development efforts and drive the schedule to completion. Other projects will include setting up and guiding a Task Management solution to track Engineering and Program Management initiatives. The CBP SOC is a new task order and new customer space; this Project Engineer will help to establish and foster the customer relationship.
Primary Responsibilities:
Lead highly visible CBP SOC projects and initiatives to closure
Lead key customer briefings and generally assisting the SOC leadership (Government and contractor in execution and strategy)
Lead updates to Processes SOPs and Best Practices
Ensure high quality of all contractual deliverables
Facilitate quality comments back to the analysts and leads for the source data to ensure the best data for future analysis
Basic Qualifications:
Requires a BA/BS or equivalent experience and 8-12 years or prior relevant experience or Masters with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience.
Strong customer interfacing experience
Experience with ITIL practices
8-12 years technical experience with experience with project leadership
Experience with Microsoft applications including Word Excel and Outlook
Strong written and oral communication with the ability to communicate with team members management and customers.
Clearance: In addition to specific security clearance requirements all CBP SOC employees are required to successfully complete a CBP Background Investigation to support this program
Preferred Qualifications:
PMP Certification
Experience in cyber security
Previous experience with DHS or CBP customer
Experience in Security Operations Center (SOC) or Networking Operations
Experiencing developing Agile processes
Experience Leading a team
Experience Architecting a Task Management solution like Remedy or JIRA
Experience working with the following technologies
Splunk
AWS Cloud
RSA Archer
MS Project/Visio
Were not looking for perfectly polished resumes or perfect fits. Were looking for people who break limits ask hard questions and dont wait to be told whats next. At Leidos were not following the roadmap were redrawing it.
Original Posting:
November 13 2025For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $89700.00 - $162150.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Project Management Methodology
- Project / Program Management
- Construction Estimating
- Construction Experience
- PMBOK
- Visio
- Construction Management
- Project Management
- Project Management Software
- Microsoft Project
- Project Management Lifecycle
- Contracts
About Company
Leidos is an innovation company rapidly addressing the world's most vexing challenges in national security and health. Our 47,000 employees collaborate to create smarter technology solutions for customers in these critical markets.
