AEGIS IT Deputy Program Manager

Leidos Inc; Mississippi; On-site; USD 154,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Deputy Program Manager to provide program leadership for NASA's AEGIS IT services, including data centers, cloud, networks, VoIP, and cybersecurity. This role reports to the Program Manager and will help drive financial, service delivery, customer satisfaction, and growth objectives.

The successful candidate will lead multi‑discipline teams, foster collaboration across NASA and Leidos, and ensure governance, risk management, and execution excellence within a complex

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 15+ years of prior relevant experience or Master's and 10+ years of prior relevant experience.
• Strong leadership abilities; detail-oriented; effective under deadlines.
• At least 7 years of experience with the management, manpower utilization, and supervision of employees (including subcontractors) of various labor categories and skills in projects.
• Proven Program Management experience across CPAF, and FFP contracts. This includes experience managing contract deliverable items, budgets, customer satisfaction.
• Proven experience and interaction with senior level customers (SES and above).
• Experience in effectively capturing on contract growth.
• Experience managing IT contracts with focus on Customer Relationship Management across multiple stakeholder communities.
• Demonstrated success building relationships with customers and teammates.
• Ability to effectively communicate when briefing Leidos and NASA senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with senior NASA and Leidos leadership to ensure alignment with agency priorities.
• Lead engineering across all AEGIS technologies including data centers, cloud, networking, VoIP, cybersecurity, and collaboration services.
• Continuously assess enterprise system baselines and recommend improvements to support modernization.
• Translate NASA OCIO and Office of Engineering objectives into actionable engineering priorities, plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Provide direct leadership of the Collaboration Services & Specialized Services Portfolio Managers. These portions of the contract support the Conference Room standardization and operation efforts, as well as work packages that are individually funded by NASA Centers and OCIO organizations outside of the Network and Compute Infrastructure Services (NCIS) OCIO Service Line.
• Foster a culture of innovation, learning, and accountability.
• Mentor leaders at all levels on career growth, skills, and technical decision making.
• Communicate clear expectations, provide timely feedback, and model strong leadership behaviors.
• Promote collaboration across the program and within Leidos.
• Understand contract technical requirements and guide the team toward solutions meeting user needs and contract obligations.
• Support AEGIS program governance to ensure transparency on status, schedules, dependencies, risks, constraints, and required decisions.
• Implement structured methods for identifying, prioritizing, escalating, and resolving risks and issues.
• Support the Program Manager with integration with the Leidos Corporate business rhythms, including Monthly Operating Reviews (MORs), Integrated Program Reviews (IPRs), Financial Risk & Ops Reviews, Annual Operating Plans.
• Assist in facilitation of internal program business rhythms, including ability to stand in for PM with COR, CO, Center CIO and Service Line Leadership integration points.

Skills

Leadership

Program Management

Contract Management

Customer Relationships

ITIL

SAFe / Lean Portfolio

PMP

NASA experience

Cloud

Data Center

Networking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Deputy Program Manager to provide program leadership for NASA's AEGIS IT services, including data centers, cloud, networks, VoIP, and cybersecurity. This role reports to the Program Manager and will help drive financial, service delivery, customer satisfaction, and growth objectives.

The successful candidate will lead multi‑discipline teams, foster collaboration across NASA and Leidos, and ensure governance, risk management, and execution excellence within a complex