Technical Project Manager

Actalent; United States; Hybrid; USD 69,000 - 79,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

401(k) retirement plan

Life Insurance & AD&D

Job summary

Actalent is seeking a Cybersecurity Project Manager to lead cybersecurity engineering, compliance, and remediation initiatives across dispersed systems. The role partners with engineers, admins, and compliance teams to ensure timely delivery.

Responsibilities include planning, coordinating, and tracking technical programs, translating findings into actionable tasks, and reporting progress to leadership. This is a contract-to-hire role based in Orlando.

Qualifications

• Experience managing complex technical cybersecurity projects.
• Understanding of NIST/CMMC and RMF concepts.
• Ability to translate findings into actionable tasks and milestones.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams across distributed environments.

Responsibilities

• Plan and manage cybersecurity and compliance projects across programs and locations.
• Create and maintain integrated project plans, roadmaps, schedules, risks, and deliverables.
• Prioritize backlog of cybersecurity engineering and compliance work.
• Coordinate technical activities with admins, engineers, architects, compliance teams, and partners.
• Translate assessments and gaps into actionable tasks and milestones.
• Track remediation, POA&Ms, and closure of findings.
• Facilitate sprint planning, reviews, and knowledge transfer sessions.
• Establish ownership, due dates, criteria, escalation paths, and reporting.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Project management

Security engineering

Risk management

Compliance

Stakeholder communication

Sprint planning

Technical reviews

Education

PMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum, SAFe, Security+, CISSP

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

ServiceNow

Job description

Cybersecurity Project Manager

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&Ms 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 $50.00 - $57.00/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 jobclassification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may besubject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefitsavailable for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & visionCritical Illness, Accident, and Hospital401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions availableLife Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)Short and long-term disabilityHealth Spending Account (HSA)Transportation benefitsEmployee Assistance ProgramTime Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Job Type & Location

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

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Oct 29, 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.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications withoutregard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability,sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protectedby law.

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Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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