ProGov PKI SME Associate Director

Protiviti • Washington, DC

60d • Hybrid

About The Position

Protiviti is looking for a Technology Consulting Associate Director to join our growing ProGov team. Protiviti Government Services (“Protiviti” or “ProGov”), based in Alexandria, Virginia, is looking for a Public Key Infrastructure (FPKI) professional to help our clients with analysis, communications, compliance support, and coordination. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated technical knowledge and understanding of relevant Federal policies and regulations for PKI, networking, IT systems, and security.

Requirements

• Demonstrated technical knowledge and understanding of relevant Federal policies and regulations for PKI, networking, IT systems, and security.
• Experience applying or analyzing policies/standards and a plus if it’s with PKI related standards.
• Experience related to HSPD-12, FIPS 201-2, and PIV or PIV-I cards
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent client relationship skills
• Must be able to handle highly confidential information in a strictly professional manner
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., Business Administration, IS, etc.).
• Must be US Citizen (no foreign nationals)
• Active DoD Top Secret clearance
• Experience as a PKI trusted role or operating a PKI
• 15-years of demonstrated PKI policy experience
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite applications with specific emphasis on Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Secondary emphasis on Visio and Access.

Nice To Haves

• You enjoy analyzing audit reports and PKI policies.
• You are passionate about building trusted relationships with C-level executives and providing exceptional experiences that translate to additional project work.
• You have an inherent interest in project management and team leadership.
• You promote a positive team culture that fosters open communication among all engagement team members.
• You create development opportunities for others, including participating in the creation and rollout of training, and ways for your team to improve our clients and communities.
• You enjoy discovering prospective project work with current and potential clients through networking, knowledge-building, and client interactions.
• You excel at identifying opportunities to integrate product solutions and resources to improve client service capabilities.
• You view client challenges as opportunities to add value and can translate that into new project proposals and sales.
• You are seen as a valued contributor to thought leadership and encourage knowledge-sharing and collaboration across teams.
• You have interest in managing a diverse portfolio of clients.
• Professional Certification such as CISSP, USACE or similar strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Attend various federal and industry PKI meetings, working groups, and forums. Relay any updated information back to the client’s team to improve our operations.
• Maintain documents and PKI-related compliance standards (e.g., federal policies, OMB Memos, NIST SP, etc.) and industry standards (RFC, CAB Forum, etc.). Should have experience applying or analyzing policies/standards and a plus if it’s with PKI related standards. Input, analyze, and then write change proposals to maintain alignment based on new policies or standards. Also, provide recommendations on federal-wide/industry policy documents to ensure client remains aligned.
• As directed, conduct or lead special projects which consist of either business and/or technical writing on business impact from PKI or IT Security implementations, technical how-to guides, technology/policy roadmap, quarterly newsletter, and monthly/weekly status reports.
• Support various strategic planning, customer briefings, FPKI community support, document development, communications, and support of the Chief Information Officers (CIO) Council and other Government organizations on behalf of the FPKI program support.
• Translate executive-level policies into business processes.
• Analyze audit reports and PKI policies.
• Develop, update, distribute, and brief weekly and monthly status reports.
• Interview, gather, analyze, and draft business requirement documents, technical how-to guides, newsletters, and decision-based white papers and briefs.
• Provide technical and operational support of the FPKI infrastructure or infrastructure components to/from other providers or the Government as may be required.
• Establishing and cultivating business relationships and a professional network, including with senior executives.
• Successfully pursuing business development opportunities and identifying and implementing strategies to obtain new work or clientele.
• Ability to translate and communicate challenges to client personnel, including executives.
• Leadership and direct supervisory experience of teams include conducting performance appraisals, mentoring and coaching, oversight and review of work, coordination across teams, and understanding how to motivate.

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision coverages
• FSA and HSA healthcare accounts
• life and accident insurance
• adoption and fertility assistance
• paid parental leave up to 10 weeks
• short/long term disability
• company 401(k) savings and investment plan with an employer match of 50% on the first 6% of your contributions
• Choice Time Off (CTO) for vacation, personal needs, and sick time
• 11 paid holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director