Technical Cybersecurity Program Manager

Founded in 2002, VMD is an award-winning provider of Agile Software Engineering, Digital Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Transportation Security Services to numerous U.S. Federal Government clients including projects across both DoD and Civilian agencies. We specialize in high-level, tip of the spear engagements with a significant impact on mission success for our clients.

Why Join VMD Corp? VMD fosters a culture that is founded onand you can to our Vision Mission Driven employees.

VMD Employees envision the future. We hold ourselves accountable and hold each other to equally high standards. Our people recognize and reward greatness and are humble in doing so. VMD Employees understand big accomplishments take a team. Our people learn from both our mistakes and successes; we pursue improvement relentlessly, objectively and without bias. We share our thoughts and ideas with purpose and transparency. We commit to the mission, the customer and to each other. We love being nimble and producing results.

Our team is one of the best in the business.

About the Mission You Will Join: Do you want to help change the delivery of cybersecurity initiatives and operations in the Federal space?

At VMD, we are looking for game-changers to help re-envision cybersecurity in the Federal space and leap takers to help execute on that vision.

VMD's cybersecurity services and delivery leverage the following aspects:

• Utilizing fundamentals and embedding them into everyday culture
• Being agile and nimble to adjust responses as necessary
• Making decisions based on data
• Using threat intelligence to determine risk
• Removing manual dependencies from security-related processes where feasible

We are looking to add someone to our cybersecurity practice to support our Federal clients and support the overall growth of our cybersecurity delivery team and services to continue meeting the ever-changing needs in cybersecurity.

Your Impact to the Mission: As the Technical Cybersecurity Program Manager you will leverage technical knowledge and experience to support and lead security and compliance activities across multiple projects and products. You will be responsible for leading a team of ISSOs and actively interacting and communicating with various departments, teams, and projects to provide technical and compliance support on recommendations and best practices. You will be interacting with technical staff to executive staff, adjusting the communication and feedback accordingly. The Technical Cybersecurity Program Manager will be responsible for:

• Providing system security services as a principal advisor to the assigned System Owners (SO) on matters involving the security and privacy of an information system.
• All aspects of the product system that protect information from unauthorized system activity or behavior to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
• Performing security and compliance tasks in close collaboration with SOs, product teams, cybersecurity staff, and other stakeholders.
• Recommending and directing the protection of data and compliance with privacy related rules, regulations, and frameworks across systems.
• Monitoring systems and its environment of operation in a continuous manner to include developing and updating security and privacy plans, managing and controlling changes to the system, ensuring deficiencies and vulnerabilities are remediated in a timely manner, and assessing the security or privacy impact of those changes.
• Analyzing and investigating potential security threats against technologies in use as well as those planned for future use.
• Supporting the response for planned and unplanned security assessments including documentation collection and review, documentation creation and maintenance, and artifact/evidence review and validation.
• Providing security expertise in coordination with enterprise architecture and technical review boards.
• Developing and maintaining information security program strategic and tactical goals and objectives and program outreach/communication plans.
• Identifying, developing, and maintaining a performance management program, that includes performance measures, tracking metrics, and trend analysis.

Experience Needed to Be Successful:

• 10+ years of work experience in cybersecurity, with a technical background.
• 5+ years in a technical role in the area of networking, operating systems, or software development. * Proven Assessment and Authorization experience working with the Risk Management Framework (RMF).
• Experience applying STIGs to operating systems, applications and network peripherals.
• Proven security leader to a team of security compliance and/or engineers, providing hands-on guidance and best practices
• Experience with security development lifecycle management, DevSecOps, and CI/CD integration.
• Understanding and working knowledge of programming languages such as Java, PHP, C, .NET, Go, or Python.
• Experience with various operating systems including Windows, Linux and Unix
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills to facilitate effective collaboration across a variety of stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to function independently and define the proper methods & procedures
• Understanding of guiding cybersecurity principles and control guidance
• Effective writing skills to capture issues and recommendations
• Strong customer relationship building ability

Desired Qualifications and Experience:

• Proven ability to lead large cybersecurity teams across a diverse customer base. Any experience previous supporting DHS customers.

Basic Qualifiers:

• Education Requirement: Bachelor's degree
• Can Additional Years of Experience Substitute for Degree?Yes
• Required Certification(s):Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Desired Certification(s): Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) or GIAC Information Security Professional (GISP)or Any cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, Google) Additional other Cybersecurity certifications are a plus
• Minimum Years of Overall Experience:10
• Minimum Years of Specific Experience in Field: 5
• Minimum Clearance to Start: Public Trust
• Work Status Allowable:US Citizenship

The Type of Person That Will Excel:

• You are curious, inquisitive, and have demonstrated a constant eagerness to learn through actions.
• You have high attention to detail.
• You demonstrate personal accountability and integrity in all actions.

Travel and Telecommuting:

• Travel:Little (less than 10%)
• Telecommute Options:Yes. Remote with occasional onsite in Springfield, VA

VMD provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable Federal, state and local laws. VMD maintains a drug-free workplace.