Job Description

KDA Consulting is a Disabled Veteran, Woman-Owned, Certified Disadvantaged Small Business, comprised of a diverse team of professionals driven to tackle the demanding National Defense and Intelligence challenges through IT solutions. We emphasize teamwork and focus on achieving goals to complete deliverables efficiently, on-time, and under budget.

We are currently seeking an experienced IT Program Manager – SME (AWS Cloud) to join our team.

This candidate will be responsible for managing various system engineering projects utilizing a structured project management framework for the Government in the IC. The position will require the PM to develop and maintain requirement matrices, hold daily scrum meetings with the team, and develop work breakdown structures and project schedules in accordance with work scope. The PM will be expected to foster collaboration between key project stakeholders to ensure a smooth transition from legacy project management and traditional infrastructure to cloud based solutions and numerous Agile best practices. This role will work directly with IT modernization consultants, cloud solution architects and cloud engineers in translating IT strategic goals, roadmaps, and business requirements into future state architectures designed to leverage multi-cloud solutions.

Primary Job Duties & Required Job Qualifications:

Serve as single POC to the Sponsor regarding oversight of all software and infrastructure project efforts. Will also provide status updates and take action regarding project implementation issues.

• Demonstrated experience developing project plans, to include defining measurable milestones and criteria.

• Demonstrated experience developing realistic project schedules.
• Demonstrated experience utilizing Agile development methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating, supporting, and participating in program meetings and reviews.
• Demonstrated experience designing and deploying web, internet, and cloud technologies.
• Demonstrated experience with systems engineering lifecycle management.
• Demonstrated experience building cloud-native apps leveraging SecDevOps.
• Demonstrated experience utilizing Agile development methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience with Cloud Engineering with one or more of the following: AWS, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, or IBM.
• Demonstrated experience performing data exploitation-retrieval, triage and pre-processing, analysis, reporting, or visualization of complex datasets.
• Demonstrated experience administering and deploying cyber security tools in the Cloud.
• Demonstrated experience with information security technologies and security guidelines.
• Demonstrated experience interpreting and applying ICD 503 standards.
• Demonstrated experience or knowledge of various security assessment tools (i.e., WebInspect, Splunk, AppDetective, and Nessus).

Preferred Experience & Certifications:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Previous experience working with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, IBM Cloud
• CISSP certification

Requirements

Job Requirements

· Active TS/SCI + Full Scope Poly U.S. Government Security is required

· Bachelor’s Degree

· 16 years minimum of relevant professional work experience

· Ability to identify issues and implement corrective actions

· Ability to maintain discretion and confidentiality

· Strong interpersonal skills, especially the ability to network and establish professional relationships

· Ability to prioritize, demonstrated strong organizational skills, and ability to meet or exceed deadlines

Physical Demands: Position will require frequent sitting, standing, and/or mobility within an office setting. Employee must be able to use hands to complete work at a workstation/computer, be able to reach, type and manipulate with hands, fingers, and arms; lift and/or move up to 20 pounds; talk, see and hear.

Work Environment : Work is performed on client site in a professional office environment with moderate stress and noise levels. Position requires employee to effectively use a computer, potentially for long periods of time, and to accommodate potentially frequent interruptions. Candidate should be both customer-focused and present a team approach to overall work.

Schedule: Business core hours are Monday through Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET. Standard work hours may vary for this position based upon contract requirements. Position will be located onsite at a customer facility in Herndon, VA.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): KDA is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, KDA will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations in the hiring process. We encourage qualified individuals with disabilities to apply. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process or to perform essential job functions, please contact our HR team at hr@kda-consulting.com . For persons who are deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind, or deaf-disabled, KDA will provide an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter where needed as a reasonable accommodation for the hiring processes.

EEOC: KDA is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.

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