IT Project Manager - Steampunk

Who We Are

Steampunk is the explosive collision of human-centered design and traditional government contracting. An employee-owned company with a startup mindset and time-tested approaches tailored for the federal government, we’re passionate about creating solutions that are impactful, practical, scalable, and most importantly, that meet our clients’ ever-changing needs.

At Steampunk, we believe in disrupting the status quo and setting the pace in the ecosystem of government contractors, while repurposing tried-and-true methodologies. We believe in empowering our people to find creative solutions to intractable problems. We believe the best environment in which to grow and thrive is outside our comfort zone.

While good design makes for a good product, we believe human-centered design makes for an excellent one. We also believe effective teams are powered by diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. To that end, Steampunk is an equal opportunity employer committed to promoting diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin, disability status, and protected veteran status, amongst our ranks.  Additionally, we participate in the E-Verify program.

As an IT Project Manager, you will be responsible for planning, executing, and closing complex IT projects within the organization. You will work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to ensure project success, compliance with federal regulations, and alignment with agency objectives. You will be a member of our Cybersecurity and DevSecOps practice leading IT projects that deliver features to support cloud and application development. We are looking for candidates with 12-16 years experience with responsibility for leading cross functional and technical teams to drive projects from conceptual design feasibility through requirements, budget, completed design, implementation, testing, and deployment.  

Responsibilities include: 

• Serves as the technical delivery leader, accountable for completion of team delivery efforts including quality oversight and client acceptance 
• Develop comprehensive project plans, including scope, objectives, schedules, budgets, and resource allocation.
• Identify, assess, and manage project risks, including compliance risks related to federal regulations and standards.
• Allocate and manage project resources, including personnel, budget, and technology assets.
• Maintain clear and effective communication with project stakeholders, including agency leadership, team members, and external partners.
• Fosters and promotes innovative thinking across the client environment 
• Ensure that project scope remains aligned with agency goals and objectives and manage scope changes when necessary.

• Builds and maintains client relationships, developing a strategic vision for clients and internal teams  
• Handles challenging client situations and offers technical and business guidance & direction to client executives  
• Manages staff and monitors performance and training needs to create skills expansion and career advancement opportunity 
• Works with the end customers, stakeholders and product owners to understand the program objective, needs, and convey those to the team 

• Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes 
• Responsible for leading agile ceremonies and advocating best practices 
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats 
• Identifying technical problems, performing root cause analysis, and developing software updates and ‘fixes’ 

• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended 
• Develops DevSecOps technical strategies, visions and roadmaps 
• Document as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations  
• Leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize and modernize software systems 
• Leads and manages team members 

• Assists in sales and technical strategy activities beyond their current program 
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided 

Required: 

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance 
• U.S Citizen
• BS Degree in an IT field OR BS in a non-IT field and 10 years related IT experience 
• Proven experience of leading the deployment of enterprise and custom Software solutions in client environments 
• Demonstrated ability to influence and consult while providing thought leadership to sponsors/stakeholders in solving governance, program/project management, business process and/or technical problems 

• Proven experience growing and selling while delivering 
• Extensive exericen leading IT project or security teams
• 8 Years of Experience with one or more clouds (i.e. AWS, Azure, or GCP) 
• 5 Years of Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket 
• 5 Years of Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages 
• 5 Years of application DevSecOps Experience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment 

• 5 Years of Experience implementing infrastructure as code and orchestration 
• 5 Years of Experience building CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Pipelines, CircleCI, TravisCI 
• 3 Years of Experience integrating deployments with industry standard DevSecOps tooling and orchestration 

Preferred: 

• MS Degree  

• Certifications: Must possess PMP and at elast one technical certification 

• CISSP
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer 
• AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional 
• Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert 
• SAFeScrum Master Certification 

• Certified Scrum Master 
• PMP 

• Experience implementing Automated Testing frameworks including Selenium 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills 
• Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations preferred 

• Experience with automation tools, including Pivotal, Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible 

Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors.  Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges.  As an employee owned company, we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers – and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story, visit http://www.steampunk.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.