Senior Product Operations: ATO & Certification PM

Trusted Concepts, Inc.; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health/dental/vision insurance

Life and disability insurance

Retirement benefits

Paid leave

Tuition assistance

Professional development

Job summary

Two Six Technologies is seeking a Project Manager for Product Operations in the Arlington/Herndon, VA area. You will own the end-to-end Authority to Operate (ATO) and certification process, including NIAP Common Criteria, CSfC, and FIPS 140-3 validation for our DoD and IC product lines, ensuring deployment readiness and continuous compliance.

This is a hybrid role with 10–20% travel to interface with customers and teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of project or program management in defense or high-assurance hardware/software environments.
• Experience certifying software and hardware systems on DoD/IC networks.
• Experience with hardware certifications and cybersecurity validation (e.g., FIPS 140-3).
• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• Interest in supporting US government national security missions.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end ATO and certification for DoD/IC systems.
• Lead NIAP/Common Criteria, CSfC, and FIPS 140-3 validation efforts.
• Collaborate with tech leads, PMs, and IC/DoD customers to define requirements for ATO and reciprocal certifications.
• Steward a DevSecOps approach and create artifacts for secure SDLC.
• Support ongoing compliance and additional hardware certification processes.
• Build RD-to-manufacturing processes and stage-gate criteria for production.
• Maintain Arena BOMs (HLA, PCB/PCBA) and Ariba vendor data.
• Provide consolidated status reports on milestones to leadership.
• Maintain certification and audit-ready documentation.

Skills

Project management

Defense contracting experience

ATO / Certification knowledge

Cross-functional collaboration

Security clearance TS/SCI

Tools

Arena

Ariba

Job description

Two Six Technologies is seeking a Project Manager for Product Operations in the Arlington/Herndon, VA area. You will own the end-to-end Authority to Operate (ATO) and certification process, including NIAP Common Criteria, CSfC, and FIPS 140-3 validation for our DoD and IC product lines, ensuring deployment readiness and continuous compliance.

This is a hybrid role with 10–20% travel to interface with customers and teams.