IT Project Manager – Mission-Critical IT Projects

Job Description

IT Project Manager | Peraton

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Peraton. The company is a next-generation national security provider, serving as a mission capability integrator and enterprise IT provider for the nation and its allies. This role is crucial for planning, executing, and delivering complex information technology projects that support critical government missions. By ensuring projects meet contractual, security, and government standards, the IT Project Manager directly contributes to safeguarding national security.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Pay: $104000–$166000 yearly
• Team: Leads cross-functional and multidisciplinary technical teams, collaborating with government stakeholders and contractor leadership.
• Mission: Plans, executes, and delivers complex IT projects for mission-critical systems, ensuring they meet contractual, security, and government standards.
• Tech Stack: Microsoft Project, Jira, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow

What You’ll Actually Do
• Lead Project Delivery: Lead the planning, execution, monitoring, and successful delivery of multiple IT projects supporting mission operations.
• Manage Project Parameters: Manage project scope, budget, schedule, and performance metrics in accordance with contract requirements.
• Coordinate Technical Teams: Coordinate activities across engineering, cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, software development, and operations teams.
• Mitigate Risks: Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks, issues, and dependencies while providing timely status updates to government stakeholders.
• Facilitate Communication: Facilitate project meetings, technical reviews, integrated product team (IPT) meetings, and executive-level briefings, fostering collaboration across teams.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 8 years of experience, or 12 years without a degree, managing IT initiatives within classified government environments.
• Experience: Minimum 3 years supporting Intelligence Community (IC) or Department of Energy (DOE) customers, with demonstrated experience managing multiple concurrent IT projects involving cross-functional technical teams, including software development, infrastructure modernization, cloud migration, cybersecurity, or enterprise IT initiatives.
• Skills: Strong understanding of project management principles, risk management, scheduling, budgeting, resource planning, and exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills; must possess an active Top Secret or Q clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Bonus: Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), PMI-ACP, SAFe, or other Agile certification, experience with classified cloud environments (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government), familiarity with ITIL processes and IT Service Management (ITSM), or experience with DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and cybersecurity compliance frameworks.