Operations & Sustainment Program Manager
About The Position
Leidos is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Program Manager to lead delivery execution and overall outcomes for global network operations. This role is onsite at Scott AFB, IL, supporting the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) as a provider of Defense Information System Network (DISN) services to the Department of War (DoW) and national security organizations. The operations team consists of over 700 geographically dispersed individuals providing 24x7 support for incident management, system restoral, and sustainment of DISN services. The Program Manager will be a key leader within a high-visibility DISA program, shaping delivery strategy, driving execution, and ensuring mission outcomes in a complex global operating environment.
Requirements
- 8+ years of demonstrated experience leading operations for large-scale Federal or DoW network operations programs.
- Proven track record delivering network or IT systems.
- Experience managing fixed price and cost-reimbursable programs with full responsibility for cost, schedule, and performance.
- Experience leading technical teams to include assigning tasks to contractor personnel, supervising on-going technical efforts, and managing contract performance identified by the customer.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive execution across organizational boundaries.
- Bachelor’s + 8 years relevant experience OR Master’s + 6 years experience.
- Active Top Secret clearance.
Nice To Haves
- Active TS/SCI clearance.
- PMP / PgMP certification.
- Large complex network operations experience.
- Experience operating across NIPRNet, SIPRNet.
- Working knowledge of IT networks, to include network appliances (e.g., routers, load balancers, domain name servers, firewalls).
Responsibilities
- Lead program execution, driving end-to-end execution across cost, schedule, performance, and risk for a $100 million program.
- Ensure delivery at mission pace.
- Lead integrated teams across Leidos, subcontractors, and Government stakeholders.
- Deliver 24x7 mission support in a complex global network.
- Oversee delivery of services spanning global enterprise network systems.
- Navigate a multi-stakeholder environment with competing priorities and evolving requirements.
- Lead product strategy, roadmap execution, and continuous delivery pipelines.
- Resolve cross-domain challenges spanning technology, mission, and operations.
- Drive accountability & transparency by implementing and monitoring program controls across financials, staffing, delivery metrics, and performance outcomes.
- Deliver clear, actionable insights through executive reporting (Program Reviews, briefings).
- Identify risks early and drive mitigation to protect mission delivery.
- Drive innovation and automation into operations to enable mission lethality.
- Be a visionary for integrating innovation and automation throughout the task order.
- Drive AI capabilities and tools across DISN operational activities.
- Lead an automation-first mindset to enhance operational effectiveness.
- Proactively shape future mission delivery by partnering with capture leadership to align program delivery to capture strategy.
- Bring thought leadership to task order to drive innovation and creative solutions to enable future capture.
- Foster close partnership across the division to leverage the operations task order expertise to drive new business activities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
