Networking Project Manager - CTJ - TS/SCI

Microsoft•Springfield, VA

9d•$77,900 - $169,200

About The Position

As a Senior Networking Project Manager, you will engage with customer stakeholders to build partnerships and deliver networking projects, drawing on broad technical expertise. You will manage customer delivery obligations, project initiation and planning, governance, risk, finances, communications, and closure. The role includes coordinating internal teams and partners, supporting business growth and cloud consumption, and ensuring delivery complies with contractual, security, privacy, and customer requirements. You will contribute to networking solution architecture and project execution by gathering and documenting customer requirements and constraints, shaping solution approaches, coordinating technical governance, and supporting design, build, testing, and deployment. You will work with account, bid, delivery, and specialist teams to address blockers, manage ambiguity and risks, and communicate business value. You will also share intellectual property and lessons learned, mentor colleagues, and develop relationships with customer and partner decision makers. The position requires an active U.S. Government TOP SECRET/SCI clearance, verification of U.S. citizenship, and successful completion of the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter. The role supports U.S. government customers and is subject to citizenship-based restrictions. The typical U.S. base pay range is USD $77,900–$156,200 per year; the range for the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area is USD $100,800–$169,200 per year. The position will be open for at least five days, with applications accepted until filled.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in a related field and 3+ years of project management experience, or equivalent experience.
Active U.S. Government TOP SECRET/SCI security clearance.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements; clearance verification is required before an offer, and failure to obtain or maintain required clearance or screening may result in employment action.
Must meet Microsoft Cloud background-check requirements upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
U.S. citizenship verification is required for this position.
The posting describes the role as requiring project management, customer engagement, delivery planning, risk management, communication, and collaboration capabilities.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in a related field and 8+ years of project management experience, or equivalent experience.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Four or more years of financial management experience.
Agile certification, Scrum Master certification, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), or Professional Scrum Master One (PSM1) certification.
At least six years of experience as a network engineer or technical program manager for networks.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related STEM discipline, or four years of equivalent related experience.
Experience with architecture, deployment, or operations of government classified networks.
Experience with Ansible, Splunk, and/or SolarWinds.
Experience with Layer 2/Layer 3 switching and routing platforms, application networking, and protocols such as BGP, OSPF, VRRP, and LACP.
Experience implementing cloud networking, preferably onboarding customer infrastructure to the cloud.
CCNP or higher, or equivalent professional certification; CompTIA Security+ certification.
Ability to work in a flexible, fast-paced environment.
Effective communication and collaboration with customers, partners, and teams; ability to build relationships across levels, geographies, and business functions.
Excellent judgment and decision-making, including the ability to work under deadline pressure in ambiguous situations.
Experience with firewall, network security, or network monitoring solutions, including Palo Alto, Cisco Firepower/ASA, and/or Juniper SRX.
Experience with Azure Networking, Azure Kubernetes, YAML scripting, and Bicep ARM.
Experience with privacy and encryption protocols or capabilities such as VPN, IPSec, and TLS.
Experience with cloud or other software-defined networking, including networking authentication, authorization, role-based access control, compute, and databases.
Experience with Linux and Windows, especially shell commands and scripting.
Experience in one or more programming languages: C#, C++, Java, or Python.
Experience in network automation using scripting languages such as Python.

Responsibilities

Manage customer delivery obligations throughout the lifecycle, including envisioning, solution development, delivery planning, cloud consumption and usage, and delivery management, while ensuring security best practices and active customer- or market-required security certifications.
Lead or participate in steering committee meetings and maintain customer stakeholder relationships to anticipate, identify, and manage delivery issues; communicate delivery status to stakeholders.
Support customer consumption by identifying blockers and working through internal teams to help customers realize value from their purchases; remain accountable for project delivery forecasts.
Collaborate with Sales on contract setup, approvals, signature, compliance, execution, invoicing, and closure; manage project budgets, profitability, financial performance, and risk.
Identify and drive business-growth opportunities, including cloud consumption, follow-on proposals, customer discussions about next-stage proposals, deal pursuits, backlog risk management, and forecasting contributions.
Close projects on time by completing sign-off activities, system closeout updates, customer-data deletion, and deliverable acceptance; share lessons learned and suggest process and intellectual-property improvements.
Facilitate contracting for customer and partner resources, including partner briefings, candidate interviews, onboarding, subcontractor contract support, amendments, delivery acceptance, proof of delivery, invoicing, and contract reviews for security and data governance.
Balance resource needs across projects and collaborate with resource managers and delivery centers on integrated onshore and offshore planning.
Initiate medium-complexity projects or workstreams within larger programs by securing and assigning resources, sourcing partner resources, building work breakdown structures, and finalizing Secure Future Initiative checklists and processes.
Research, share, improve, and submit intellectual property; encourage teams to reuse appropriate processes, artifacts, and collective knowledge.
Monitor project metrics, key performance indicators, deliverable quality, schedule, risks, issues, security compliance, and financial performance; maintain customer deliverables and provide audience-appropriate project communications.
Manage risks and issues, including security risks; develop mitigation and contingency plans, coordinate recovery efforts, ensure risk tools are updated, prioritize issue closure, and ensure required Information Security Risk Assessments are completed, reviewed, and signed off.
Report security and data-compliance breaches promptly through applicable reporting channels and inform internal and external stakeholders.
Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, resource plans, baselines, dependencies, contingencies, and work-effort estimates in alignment with customer plans; establish responsibilities and expectations through kickoff meetings and stakeholder engagement.
Contribute to presales by articulating business value, assessing complexity and risk, reviewing scope, and helping develop statements of work, work breakdown structures, estimates, risk assessments, and funding for Secure by Default activities.
Build customer partnerships, manage escalations, address customer feedback, manage expectations, and act as the voice of the customer while upholding contractual, confidentiality, privacy, security, and compliance requirements.
Gather customer and partner insights and requirements; document networking architecture, solution value, constraints, assumptions, decisions, and project approach.
Collaborate with account and bid teams, pillar leads, technical specialists, business sponsors, and customers on solution definition, technical governance, proof-of-concept and pilot design, build, deployment, testing, and release planning.
Identify and communicate business and technical risks, blockers, and delivery impediments; define mitigation and contingency plans and coordinate teams to resolve technical and non-technical issues.
Develop internal and external relationships with decision makers, advise external stakeholders, facilitate relationships, and use evidence-based arguments to guide decisions and resolve conflicts.
Support adoption of Microsoft technologies by explaining customer business value and differentiating Microsoft solutions in light of competitor offerings.
Mentor colleagues, share technical and project-management practices, contribute to technical communities and external architecture events, and communicate Microsoft technologies and capabilities.
Oversee consulting engagement delivery or a broader account portfolio when appropriate, coordinating specialists and aligning disparate approaches into a unified plan.