Cybersecurity Project Manager

Actalent; Orlando (FL); Ibrido; USD 90.000 - 103.000; Part-time

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Medical, dental & vision

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Descrizione del lavoro

Actalent is seeking a Technical Project Manager to lead cybersecurity engineering, compliance, remediation, and security-automation initiatives across distributed systems in Orlando. You will coordinate engineers, admins, architects, and stakeholders to deliver secure, compliant outcomes.

The role focuses on translating assessments into actionable tasks, managing backlogs, and guiding project plans, roadmaps, and milestones with a strong emphasis on governance and reporting.

Competenze

• Experience managing complex technical cybersecurity projects.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity engineering, IT infrastructure, cloud environments.
• Experience creating and managing project plans, roadmaps, schedules, risks, dependencies, status reporting.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams including engineers and compliance specialists.
• Experience translating technical findings into actionable tasks and delivery plans.
• Proven ability to manage multiple parallel workstreams across distributed teams.
• Meeting facilitation, stakeholder communication, documentation, and escalation-management skills.
• Experience coordinating sprint planning, technical reviews, architecture reviews.

Mansioni

• Plan and execute technical cybersecurity and compliance projects across multiple programs, systems, and locations.
• Build and manage integrated project plans, roadmaps, schedules, milestones, risks, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Manage a prioritized backlog of cybersecurity activities based on milestones and needs.
• Coordinate technical activities with system admins, engineers, architects, compliance teams, and leadership.
• Translate assessments and gaps into actionable engineering tasks and milestones.
• Track remediation activities, vulnerabilities, and POA&Ms through closure.
• Facilitate sprint planning, technical reviews, and knowledge-transfer sessions.
• Establish ownership, due dates, acceptance criteria, escalation paths, and reporting processes.
• Monitor project health and communicate progress, risks, blockers, and decisions.
• Coordinate work across dispersed environments and standardize repeatable processes.
• Support integration of security metrics and dashboards with enterprise tools.
• Coordinate handoff of security processes and metrics to internal teams.
• Ensure alignment with NIST and CMMC requirements while delivering measurable outcomes.

Descrizione del lavoro

Job Description

We are seeking a Technical Project Manager to lead and coordinate cybersecurity engineering, compliance, vulnerability-remediation, and security-automation initiatives across highly secure, geographically dispersed systems. This role involves working with cybersecurity engineers, system administrators, architects, compliance professionals, program stakeholders, and operational teams to ensure successful project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute technical cybersecurity and compliance projects across multiple programs, systems, and locations.
• Build and manage integrated project plans, technical roadmaps, schedules, milestones, risks, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Manage a prioritized backlog of cybersecurity engineering and compliance activities based on changing program milestones and operational needs.
• Coordinate technical activities involving system administrators, cybersecurity engineers, architects, compliance teams, program leadership, and external partners.
• Translate cybersecurity assessments, NIST controls, compliance gaps, and technical findings into actionable engineering tasks and project plans.
• Track remediation activities, vulnerabilities, control implementation, and Plans of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms) through closure.
• Facilitate sprint planning, technical reviews, architecture reviews, status meetings, and knowledge-transfer sessions.
• Establish clear ownership, due dates, acceptance criteria, escalation paths, and reporting processes for technical deliverables.
• Monitor project health and communicate progress, risks, blockers, resource needs, and decisions to technical and business stakeholders.
• Coordinate work across geographically dispersed environments and help standardize repeatable processes, templates, requirements, and checklists.
• Support the integration of security metrics, queries, dashboards, and reporting processes with enterprise management tools.
• Coordinate operational handoff of security processes, dashboards, metrics, documentation, and tracking capabilities to internal teams.
• Ensure project activities remain aligned with applicable NIST and CMMC requirements while keeping the team focused on delivery and measurable outcomes.

Essential Skills

• Demonstrated experience managing complex technical projects involving cybersecurity, IT infrastructure, cloud environments, systems engineering, or enterprise technology.
• Strong technical foundation with the ability to understand cybersecurity engineering, system-administration, cloud, vulnerability-management, and compliance concepts.
• Experience creating and managing project plans, technical roadmaps, schedules, backlogs, milestones, risks, dependencies, and status reporting.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams that include engineers, administrators, architects, compliance specialists, and program stakeholders.
• Experience translating technical findings or compliance requirements into clearly defined tasks, owners, priorities, and delivery plans.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple parallel workstreams across distributed teams.
• Meeting facilitation, stakeholder communication, documentation, and escalation-management skills.
• Experience coordinating sprint planning, technical reviews, architecture reviews, or similar engineering delivery activities.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience managing cybersecurity engineering, information assurance, RMF, authorization, audit-readiness, or compliance-remediation projects.
• Working knowledge of NIST SP 800-53, NIST SP 800-171, CMMC Level 2, RMF and authorization activities, POA&M management, vulnerability management and remediation, security control implementation and verification.
• Familiarity with AWS environments, including EC2, AWS Lambda, and containerized workloads.
• Experience managing projects involving security automation, technical dashboards, metrics, continuous monitoring, or enterprise reporting tools.
• Familiarity with Jira, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, or comparable backlog and project-tracking platforms.
• Experience supporting secure government, defense, aerospace, intelligence, or other regulated technical environments.
• PMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum, SAFe, Security+, CISSP, or a comparable project-management or cybersecurity certification.

Work Environment

The role is based in Orlando, FL, with an initial onsite work arrangement and the potential to transition to a hybrid schedule. The position is a 12-month contract-to-hire. The work involves coordinating projects across geographically dispersed environments and requires a strong ability to manage multiple workstreams and teams in a secure environment.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Orlando, FL.

Pay And Benefits

The pay range for this position is $65.00 - $75.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k)
• Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life &DD for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Oct 27, 2026.

Workplace Type

This is a hybrid position in Orlando,FL.

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 20,000 consultants and 5,000 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm for our engineering design services and a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® winner for both client and talent service.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Massachusetts Lie Detector: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email [e-mail] for other accommodation options.