Project Manager - Top Secret Clearance

Red Hat; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Hat's Public Sector Services team is seeking a Project Manager with a Top Secret clearance to deliver solutions that address our clients' business challenges by actively managing high‑complexity technical implementations and enablement of best practices. This on‑site role requires regular travel to client locations in the Washington DC metro area and beyond.

You will coordinate cross‑functional teams, identify risks, present project collateral, and support revenue forecasting and invoicing

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret security clearance.
• Experience delivering technical consulting engagements for the U.S. Government.
• Demonstrated ability to motivate and lead a project delivery team.
• Ability to interface with executive leadership and manage client expectations.
• Willingness to travel weekly to client locations across the D.C. metro area and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Guide customers from initiation through successful delivery of software services engagements.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to bring projects to completion on time and within budget.
• Identify, communicate, and mitigate project risks and resolve issues.
• Develop and present project collateral for stakeholders.
• Support accounting activities including burn reporting, revenue forecasting, and invoicing.
• Travel weekly, Monday-Thursday, to client locations as required.
• Develop innovative solutions leveraging open practice library methodologies and Red Hat policies.

Skills

Project management

Top Secret clearance

Client management

Open source awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

PMP

CMS

SAFe

Job description

The Red Hat Public Sector Services team is looking for a Project Manager with a Top Secret security clearance to deliver solutions that solve our client's business challenges through actively managing high complexity technical implementations and enablement of recommended practices. In this position, you will be a vital promoter of adopting Red Hat's solutions for our customers using your project management expertise and interpersonal skills. You'll need to have a balance of solid project management experience, awareness of open source, a thorough understanding of business processes, and the ability to identify, communicate, and solve issues at the enterprise level.

We seek people excited about working with us and growing their careers at Red Hat. We want to be transparent about what would make you most successful in the role,

This position requires project managers to work on-site with clients, so a willingness to regularly travel to customer locations throughout the Washington D.C. metro area with occasional travel to locations across the U.S. is required as is an Active Top Secret security clearance.

What You Will Do

• Guide customers from initiation through successful delivery of software services engagements
• Coordinate cross functional teams (through meetings and progress measurement activities) which bring projects to completion on time, within budget and with excellent customer satisfaction
• Actively identify, communicate, and mitigate projects risks and resolve issues
• Develop and effectively present project collateral
• Support accounting activities to support burn reporting, revenue, forecasting, and invoicing
• Continuously learn, grow, and adapt to new skills and technologies.
• Travel weekly, Monday-Thursday, to client locations, some potentially outside your local area.
• Develop innovative solutions for customers' problems utilizing open practice library methodologies along with industry standard project management practices and Red Hat policies and procedures
• Interact with all project resources and Senior Red Hat and Customer management, and Red Hat Support teams, for example, Resource Management, Operations and Finance

After joining Red Hat, You will undergo an intensive customized training program on Red Hat technologies and services solutions.

Here's how your skill set will evolve and what you'll learn during your first year in the role:

• In two months, be prepared to join a project team by acquiring the following:
  • Understanding of how to build production-ready technical solutions integrated with existing enterprise systems
  • Learn technologies and consulting skills to enhance your abilities through enablements designed and taught by Red Hat experts and Red Hat certification
  • Gain exposure and collaboration within Red Hat Services & the larger organization through everyday networking and community events
• Within six months, be ready to support customer success on a project by attaining the following:
  • Successful, collaborative delivery of customer projects as a technical lead through expertise in Red Hat's technologies
  • Knowledge of how a customer use case can be developed into a project plan and how those requirements align with Red Hat's technologies
  • Continue expanding your knowledge and network, both internal and external, through enablement, communities, customers, and meet-ups
• Within 12 months, begin to demonstrate technical leadership by accomplishing the following:
  • Successfully implementing complex, large-scale solutions in customer environments
  • Active engagement and knowledge sharing with our internal and external communities of practice on lessons learned, best practices, and how-tos

What You Will Bring

• Active Top Secret security clearance
• Experience with delivering technical consulting engagements using industry specific methodologies to the U.S. Government
• Demonstrated ability to motivate and lead a project delivery team
• Demonstrated ability to meet client need and interface with executive leadership
• Ability to identify stakeholder needs and set expectations regarding project timelines and scope of work
• Experience working collaboratively across diverse teams and stakeholders
• Knowledge and desire to mentor
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Experience leading successful modern cloud platform consulting engagements and implementing and integrating Red Hat's open hybrid cloud technologies like Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift
• Broad and deep experience with project management standards like PMP, CMS, SAFe, or equivalent)
• Practical experience with the software development lifecycle and DevSecOps approaches
• Experience with financial tools like SalesForce and professional services automation platforms
• Proven ability to manage project budgets, including P&L oversight, finan