Jr. Project Manager

Leidos hiring for Jr. Project Manager jobs in Ashburn, VA, US

Description

The Leidos Digital Modernization Team is seeking a Junior Project Manager to support a highly visible fast paced prime contract.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Security Operations Center (SOC) is a US Government program responsible to prevent, identify, contain and eradicate cyber threats to CBP networks through monitoring, intrusion detection and protective security services to CBP information systems including local area networks/wide area networks (LAN/WAN), commercial Internet connection, public facing websites, wireless, mobile/cellular, cloud, security devices, servers and workstations.  The CBP SOC is responsible for the overall security of CBP Enterprise-wide information systems, and collects, investigates, and reports any suspected and confirmed security violations.

The Jr. Project Manager will assist critical SOC engineering projects including projects such as launching applications into the AWS Cloud, Splunk logging, and SIEM implementation, etc. The Jr. Project Manager will need to work with the customer and Senior Project Manager to prioritize operational issues, engineering activities, and development efforts, and drive the schedule to completion.

Primary Responsibilities will include:

• Assist SR PM with visible CBP SOC projects and initiatives to closure
• Assist SR PM key customer briefings and generally assisting the SOC leadership (Government and contractor in execution and strategy)
• Updates to Processes, SOPs, and Best Practices
• Ensure high quality of all deliverables
• Facilitate quality comments back to the analysts and leads for the source data to ensure the best data for future analysis
• Perform other general administrative duties requested by your supervisor or Project Managers.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology and 2-4 years of relevant experience. Masters Degree may be considered for additional years of experience.
• Must be able to multitask and prioritize work in a high-volume environment.
• Candidate must be BI Cleared
• An expert with MS Word/Office
• Familiarity with providing OIT operational support and multiple layers of leadership and customer
• Ability to update projects in a fashion similar to various service management tools
• Familiarity with keeping customers updates on project statuses, and resolving problems, and escalations
• Understanding of customer interactions, professional mannerisms and ability consistently and accurately provide responses
• Ability to resolve customer issues/concerns to ensure customer satisfaction
• Familiarity with customer's fields, concepts, processes and procedures
• Familiarity with information technology/computer operations/network
• Ability to manage dashboard from service now for project need
• A strong background in proofreading, grammar and formatting
• Candidate must be local to the DMV area

Clearance: In addition to specific security clearance requirements all CBP SOC employees are required to successfully complete a CBP Background Investigation to support this program

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience with DHS or CBP customer

Experience with Power BI, Jira, MS Teams

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.