Cloud Security Project Manager

Booz Allen Hamilton; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 78,000 - 176,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton has an opening for a Cloud-Security Project Manager to lead enterprise data-protection programs across Microsoft 365 Purview and GovCloud environments. You will coordinate security, compliance, and information-protection initiatives for mission partners, translating policy into roadmaps and guiding cross-functional teams to secure sensitive data.

You will oversee SITs, DLP, retention controls, and insider-risk governance while aligning with IL5/IL6 requirements and Zero

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience on a DoW or DoN program.
• 7+ years of experience with project management.
• Experience managing enterprise technology or cybersecurity projects, including planning, scheduling, and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience with Microsoft 365 security and compliance capabilities, including Purview Information Protection, DLP, and eDiscovery.
• Ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and translate technical concepts into actionable project plans.
• Ability to identify risks, develop mitigation strategies, and track milestones to completion.
• Security+ or DoD 8570 Certification.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, execution, and sustainment of enterprise information-protection initiatives across Microsoft 365.
• Oversee projects involving SITs, label-driven encryption, retention and records-management controls, insider-risk governance, endpoint DLP, and compliance automation.
• Facilitate requirements gathering, monitor execution across engineering teams, manage risks and interdependencies.
• Ensure documentation, communication, and decision-making stay aligned with IL5/IL6 GovCloud and Zero Trust principles.
• Help mission partners modernize how they protect, govern, and audit sensitive information.

Skills

Security+ or DoD 8570 Certification

Top Secret clearance

Cross-functional coordination

Project management

Microsoft Purview

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Purview

Job description

Join a culture of emplowerment and connectivity.

Develop your craft

Learn the skills you need to accelerate your career.

Discover benefits that your life and work.

Innovate with intention

Build mission-ready tech that protects the nation.

Everyone is trying to “harness the cloud,” but not everyone knows how to govern and protect it effectively. As an Enhanced Data Protection Project Manager, you understand how to coordinate complex security, compliance, and information‑protection initiatives that safeguard sensitive data across Microsoft 365 IL5 and IL6 Flank Speed environments. What if you could guide mission teams in planning, delivering, and maturing enterprise data‑protection capabilities that measurably strengthen secure collaboration and Zero Trust?

As a Project Manager supporting Microsoft Purview data‑protection programs, you’ll lead the planning, execution, and sustainment of enterprise information‑protection, DLP, insider‑risk, and lifecycle‑governance initiatives across Microsoft 365. You’ll work with Navy mission stakeholders, cybersecurity teams, records managers, cloud‑engineering personnel, and Purview SMEs to translate policy requirements into actionable roadmaps, orchestrate technical implementation, and ensure consistent progress toward mission‑critical outcomes.

Your leadership will be central as you oversee projects involving Sensitive Information Types (SITs), label‑driven encryption, retention and records‑management controls, insider‑risk governance, endpoint DLP, and compliance automation. You’ll facilitate requirements gathering, monitor execution across engineering teams, manage risks and interdependencies, and ensure documentation, communication, and decision‑making stay aligned with IL5 or IL6 GovCloud and Zero Trust principles. You’ll deepen your expertise in cloud‑security program management while helping mission partners modernize how they protect, govern, and audit sensitive information.

Help us deliver cloud‑secure readiness for our nation’s warfighters by enabling robust Microsoft Purview governance, disciplined project execution, and enterprise‑level data‑protection strategy.

Join us. The world can’t wa it

You Have:

7+years of experienceworking on a Department of War (DoW) or Department of Navy (DoN) Program

7+ years ofexperience with project management

Experience managing enterprise technology or cybersecurity projects, including planning, scheduling, and stakeholder engagement

Experienceof Microsoft 365 security and compliance capabilities, including Purview Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention, and eDiscovery

Ability to coordinate cross‑functional teams and translate technical concepts into actionable project plans

Ability toidentifyrisks, develop mitigation strategies, and track milestones to completion

Security+ or DoD 8570 Certification

Nice If You Have:

Experience supporting projects involving Sensitivity Labels, SITs, EDM, DLP, Insider Risk, Records Management, or Purview scanning

Experience with generative‑AI governance, label‑driven controls, or Restricted Access policies

Knowledge of data governance frameworks, cloud security, or regulated‑environment compliance

Bachelor's degree in a technology or management discipline

Project management Certification such as PMP Certification

AgilePractitioner andScaledAgilist SAFe5 Certification

Clearance:

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Top Secret clearance is required.

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $77,600.00 to $176,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

Cloud Security Project Manager

The Opportunity:

Everyone is trying to “harness the cloud,” but not everyone knows how to govern and protect it effectively. As an Enhanced Data Protection Project Manager, you understand how to coordinate complex security, compliance, and information‑protection initiatives that safeguard sensitive data across Microsoft 365 IL5 and IL6 Flank Speed environments. What if you could guide mission teams in planning, delivering, and maturing enterprise data‑protection capabilities that measurably strengthen secure collaboration and Zero Trust?

As a Project Manager supporting Microsoft Purview data‑protection programs, you’ll lead the planning, execution, and sustainment of enterprise information‑protection, DLP, insider‑risk, and lifecycle‑governance initiatives across Microsoft 365. You’ll work with Navy mission stakeholders, cybersecurity teams, records managers, cloud‑engineering personnel, and Purview SMEs to translate policy requirements into actionable roadmaps, orchestrate technical implementation, and ensure consistent progress toward mission‑critical outcomes.

Your leadership will be central as you oversee projects involving Sensitive Information Types (SITs), label‑driven encryption, retention and records‑management controls, insider‑risk governance, endpoint DLP, and compliance automation. You’ll facilitate requirements gathering, monitor execution across engineering teams, manage risks and interdependencies, and ensure documentation, communication, and decision‑making stay aligned with IL5 or IL6 GovCloud and Zero Trust principles. You’ll deepen your expertise in cloud‑security program management while helping mission partners modernize how they protect, govern, and audit sensitive information.

Help us deliver cloud‑secure readiness for our nation’s warfighters by enabling robust Microsoft Purview governance, disciplined project execution, and enterprise‑level data‑protection strategy.

Join us. The world can’t wa it

You Have:

• 7+years of experienceworking on a Department of War (DoW) or Department of Navy (DoN) Program

• 7+ years ofexperience with project management

• Experience managing enterprise technology or cybersecurity projects, including planning, scheduling, and stakeholder engagement

• Experienceof Microsoft 365 security and compliance capabilities, including Purview Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention, and eDiscovery

• Ability to coordinate cross‑functional teams and translate technical concepts into actionable project plans

• Ability toidentifyrisks, develop mitigation strategies, and track milestones to completion

• Top Secret clearance

• Bachelors degree

• Security+ or DoD 8570 Certification

Nice If You Have:

• Experience supporting projects involving Sensitivity Labels, SITs, EDM, DLP, Insider Risk, Records Management, or Purview scanning

• Experience with generative‑AI governance, label‑driven controls, or Restricted Access policies

• Knowledge of data governance frameworks, cloud security, or regulated‑environment compliance

• Bachelor's degree in a technology or management discipline

• Project management Certification such as PMP Certification

• AgilePractitioner andScaledAgilist SAFe5 Certification

Clearance:

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Top Secret clearance is required.

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract‑specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $77,600.00 to $176,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

Identity Statement

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Candidate AI Usage Policy

AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.

Work Model

Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration, whether it occurs in person or virtually. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.

• Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.

• Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role. You may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility.

• Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.