Senior Program Manager - DoD Mission-Critical Cloud Ops

Leidos Inc; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health and Wellness programs

Income Protection

Paid Leave and Retirement

Job summary

Leidos in Reston, Virginia, seeks a Senior Program Manager to lead the CESO Task Order for the SETI contract within the Digital Sector. The role focuses on secure, high-availability operations and ITIL/DevSecOps-based service delivery for DoD/IC partners.

You will direct cross-functional teams, manage cost/schedule/performance, and communicate with senior leadership to sustain mission-critical capabilities in a high-security setting.

Qualifications

• Candidate must possess an active DOD TS/SCI
• BS/BS or equivalent experience and 8+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6+ years of prior relevant experience. Add'l experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Proven experience leading operational teams to ensure mission availability and reliability
• Ability to obtain an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner within 120 days of starting
• 4+ years of experience supervising or leading technical teams or projects.
• Experience shall include regular communications with the supported organization's senior leadership and direct accountability for managed activities.
• Proven ability to connect with and effectively lead a high performing diverse team of varying levels of experience.
• Previous experience with supporting / leading proposals to achieve on-contract growth.
• Experience leading programs with year over year financial growth and strong margin growth.
• Excellent written and oral communication capability
• Experience and ability to successfully negotiate and influence others to understand and accept new concepts, practices and approaches.
• Ability to drive employee culture change and transformation.
• Experience leading teams in a high op-temp, top secret environment

Responsibilities

• Ensure sustained operations of CESO mission capabilities driving delivery of operational best practices across CESO
• Ensured delivery of commitments made to DISA and mission partners to ensure high availability and reliability of CESO operations
• Deliver exceptional service to DISA by leading the team delivering a range of services
• Communicate critical and time sensitive program-related information directly to the SETI Leadership, or other delegated Government program personnel
• Perform as key point of contact for client relations and engage regularly to determine priorities based on the Customer guidance
• Engage with other SETI Task Order Managers to achieve synergy and efficiency
• Delivery of all programmatic components (cost, schedule, performance) to drive execution of the task orders
• Financial performance (revenue, operating income, margin) against the Annual Operating Plan commitments made.

Skills

Active TS/SCI clearance

Leadership of operational teams

Excellent communication

Cloud/AWS understanding

Proposal experience

Financial management

Change management

Education

BS/BA or equivalent experience

Master's degree

Job description

Leidos in Reston, Virginia, seeks a Senior Program Manager to lead the CESO Task Order for the SETI contract within the Digital Sector. The role focuses on secure, high-availability operations and ITIL/DevSecOps-based service delivery for DoD/IC partners.

You will direct cross-functional teams, manage cost/schedule/performance, and communicate with senior leadership to sustain mission-critical capabilities in a high-security setting.