Project Manager - Security Assurance
Engagement & Operations Manager
Remote - 12 Month Contract
€400 - €500 per day
Join us as a Project Manager / Engagement & Operations Manager on our Penetration Testing team in Ireland, Remote to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact.
The ideal candidate is a creative, energetic person who is very experienced with offensive security programs. The Security Assurance Engagement & Operations Manager is responsible for the life cycle of security testing projects, initiatives, and adversarial simulation activities. The Engagement & Operations Manager will guide security testing projects and initiatives to successful completion through scoping, planning and execution phases.
What you’ll achieve
You will:
· Create project plans, establish timelines, risk mitigation plans, and build budgets
· Coordinate team resources and distribute assignments
· Establish expectations with customers, while responding to and managing potential issues/escalations
· Track tasks and resources through activity phases to achieve desired outcomes
· Maintain communications for projects and initiatives for all stakeholders, providing a single point of contact for all aspects of the engagement
· Report on progress and provide regular updates to leadership and stakeholders
· Work with cross-functional teams to ensure project objectives are achieved within established timeframes
· Use of modern project management technologies and tools as required
· Maintain analyst capability profiles and collaborate with leadership to identify training, experience, and staffing opportunities
Desirable Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Experience:
· Demonstrate an advanced level of proficiency in mapping security testing activities to offensive security training and expertise
· Accustomed to working in a dynamic, high pressure, fast-paced environment
· Ability to solve problems and work through ambiguity and uncertainty
· Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
· Possess excellent written and verbal communications skills in English, and the ability to adapt communication styles to a variety of audiences
· Customer-oriented with a strong interest in customer satisfaction
· Ability to adjust focus between multiple, on-going, projects
· Experience as a business analyst preferred
Essential Requirements
· 3 + years of experience directly in, or providing relevant support to security testing programs
· Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Management or other related fields
· Project Management Professional (PMP) or Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) credential preferred
· ITIL certification a plus
