Job ID: JOB_ID_804
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly experienced contract Project Manager to lead a high-visibility IT infrastructure and cybersecurity initiative. This role is centered on building a secure, CMMC-aligned enclave within the Microsoft Azure environment. The primary objective is to enable multiple business entities to onboard and operate within this secure environment, ensuring full readiness for third-party certification. This is a long-term engagement with a projected duration of 69 months, requiring a dedicated professional who can manage complex technical workstreams and diverse stakeholder groups. The successful candidate will be responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of the enclave, from initial design and build to the final rollout and stabilization phases.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end project execution for the expanded design, build, and rollout of a secure Azure-based CMMC enclave, supporting multiple business entities.
- Serve as the primary project manager coordinating across IT/Security stakeholders, business units, and the MSP delivering the environment.
- Develop and maintain the integrated project plan, timeline, milestones, and RAID log (risks/actions/issues/decisions).
- Manage vendor/MSP & MSSP delivery including scope alignment, execution tracking, dependencies, deliverable acceptance, and issue escalation.
- Establish clear scope boundaries between the enclave core baseline (shared services) and business-specific customization requirements.
- Coordinate technical implementation and readiness activities delivered through the MSP, including Azure landing zone / subscription structure, segmentation, and governance.
- Oversee network design and isolation using hub/spoke models, routing, connectivity, and firewalling.
- Manage Identity and access management using Entra ID (Azure AD), MFA, RBAC, and Conditional Access.
- Oversee endpoint management and hardening using Intune and Defender for Endpoint.
- Monitor security posture management and compliance monitoring using Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
- Implement centralized logging and monitoring using Microsoft Sentinel (SIEM), Log Analytics, and alerting.
- Manage key management, secrets, and encryption strategies (Key Vault, encryption at rest/in transit).
- Plan backup/recovery strategies, retention planning, and operational support readiness.
- Drive creation of a repeatable multi-business onboarding framework, including intake, standard configurations, variation handling, and validation.
- Partner with Cybersecurity and compliance stakeholders to translate CMMC/NIST expectations into actionable work packages and measurable deliverables.
- Ensure operational processes are defined and adopted for the enclave, including access provisioning, change control, incident response coordination, and escalation paths.
- Drive documentation and audit readiness: policies, SOPs, control narratives, diagrams, and proof of operation (with evidence gathered from both internal teams and the MSP).
- Coordinate testing, validation, cutover planning, and go-live readiness; ensure post-launch stabilization (hypercare) and transition to steady-state operations.
- Provide clear stakeholder communications and executive-level status reporting, proactively surfacing risks, schedule threats, and mitigation options.
- Process and track one-time and re-occurring project invoices against the budget and develop the operating cost model for each included business.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of IT project/program management experience, including technical infrastructure and security programs.
- Demonstrated success managing delivery through third-party vendors / managed service providers, including milestone tracking, SLA/OLA alignment, and deliverable acceptance.
- Proven track record delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives involving infrastructure, identity, networking, and cybersecurity.
- Strong familiarity with Azure and Microsoft security ecosystem, including Entra ID, MFA, Conditional Access, RBAC, and Microsoft Defender.
- Working understanding of compliance-driven delivery and audit readiness (experience with CMMC, NIST 800-171, or similar frameworks strongly preferred).
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and onboard multiple business units with varying requirements and timelines.
- Strong documentation discipline and ability to drive teams (including vendors) to produce assessor-ready evidence.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, comfortable working with executives, engineers, auditors/assessors, and vendor leadership.
- Tools proficiency: MS Project / Smartsheet / Jira / SharePoint, Visio (or similar).
Preferred Skills
- Experience supporting environments for CMMC Level 2 readiness and/or NIST SP 800-171 implementation programs.
- Strong knowledge of secure networking concepts (segmentation, private connectivity, firewalling, zero trust).
- Experience coordinating third-party assessment readiness activities (mock audits, evidence walkthroughs, remediation plans).
- Certifications: PMP, CISSP, CISM, Azure certs (AZ-104/AZ-305/SC-100).
Special Requirements
Need locals Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Domain restrictions: CMMC, NIST 800-171, Azure Security. 69-month project duration.
Compensation & Location
Salary: $145,000 – $185,000 per year (Estimated)
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Recruiter / Company – Contact Information
Recruiter / Employer: Corehunt Inc
Email: tanishka.sisodia@corehuntinc.com
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