Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Excentium, Inc. provides cybersecurity consulting, assessment, architecture, and engineering services to government and commercial organizations. The Cybersecurity Program Manager will lead a major Department of Veterans Affairs cybersecurity architecture and engineering program, overseeing technical teams, delivery planning, staffing, reporting, risk management, and stakeholder coordination.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Excentium's primary point of accountability for this program, overseeing execution across all task areas — from cybersecurity architecture and engineering to enterprise security engineering, operational program support, and documentation and knowledge management
• Own the Contractor Project Management Plan, staffing plan, and all VA reporting obligations, and serve as the day-to-day counterpart to the VA Program Manager, COR, and Contracting Officer
• Translate VA's cybersecurity architecture and engineering requirements into an executable delivery plan, ensuring the full technical team — architects, engineers, analysts, and specialists — is aligned, staffed, and performing against schedule and quality expectations
• Lead a distributed program office, brief OIS leadership on program status and risk, and ensure compliance with VA training, reporting, and personnel security requirements throughout the period of performance

Skills

• 10+ years of information security experience, including 5+ years leading cybersecurity or cloud security programs at a large federal agency or comparable enterprise (GSA, IRS, DoD, VA, or similar scale)
• Demonstrated program/project management experience translating customer requirements into delivery plans and managing multidisciplinary technical teams
• Experience with Federal Assessment & Authorization (A&A) and Authority to Operate (ATO) processes, and familiarity with FedRAMP/RMF program requirements
• Experience managing federal contract reporting, staffing plans, and COR/CO relationships
• Strong executive communication skills; comfortable briefing senior government stakeholders and preparing leadership-level reporting and status materials
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Business Management, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Assurance, Information Security, Information Resource Management, or a related field
• A current certification satisfying DoD 8570/8140 workforce requirements at IAT Level III, IAM Level III, or IASAE Level III. IAT, each level is satisfied by an approved certification such as CISSP, CASP+ CE, CISA, CISM, CCISO, GCIH, or CSSLP, depending on the level and category. A Project Management Professional (PMP) certification also satisfies this requirement for this role
• CISSP
• PMP (if not already held to satisfy the minimum requirement)
• ITIL Foundation

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Life
• Disability
• 401k
• Paid time off

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