Project Manager

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Security Operations Center (SOC) is a US Government program responsible to prevent identify contain and eradicate cyber threats to CBP networks through monitoring intrusion detection and protective security services to CBP information systems including local area networks / wide area networks (LAN / WAN) commercial Internet connection public facing websites wireless mobile / cellular cloud security devices servers and workstations. The CBP SOC is responsible for the overall security of CBP Enterprise-wide information systems and collects investigates and reports any suspected and confirmed security violations.

T he Project Manager will be leading critical SOC engineering projects including projects such as launching applications into the AWS Cloud Splunk logging and SIEM implementation etc. The Project Engineer will need to work with the customer to prioritize operational issues engineering activities and development efforts and drive the schedule to completion. Other projects will include setting up and guiding a Task Management solution to track Engineering and Program Management initiatives. The CBP SOC is a new task order and new customer space; this Project Engineer will help to establish and foster the customer relationship.

Primary Responsibilities :

Lead highly visible CBP SOC projects and initiatives to closure

Lead key customer briefings and generally assisting the SOC leadership (Government and contractor in execution and strategy)

Lead updates to Processes SOPs and Best Practices

Ensure high quality of all contractual deliverables

Facilitate quality comments back to the analysts and leads for the source data to ensure the best data for future analysis

Basic Qualifications :

Requires a BA / BS or equivalent experience and 8-12 years or prior relevant experience or Masters with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience.

Strong customer interfacing experience

Experience with ITIL practices

8-12 years technical experience with experience with project leadership

Experience with Microsoft applications including Word Excel and Outlook

Strong written and oral communication with the ability to communicate with team members management and customers .

Clearance : In addition to specific security clearance requirements all CBP SOC employees are required to successfully complete a CBP Background Investigation to support this program

Pre ferred Qualifications :

PMP Certification

Experience in cyber security

Previous experience with DHS or CBP customer

Experience in Security Operations Center (SOC) or Networking Operations

Experiencing developing Agile processes

Experience Leading a team

Experience Architecting a Task Management solution like Remedy or JIRA

Experience working with the following technologies

Splunk

AWS Cloud

RSA Archer

MS Project / Visio

Were not looking for perfectly polished resumes or perfect fits. Were looking for people who break limits ask hard questions and dont wait to be told whats next. At Leidos were not following the roadmap were redrawing it.

Original Posting : November 13 2025

For U.S. Positions : While subject to change based on business needs Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range :

Pay Range $89700.00 - $162150.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.

Required Experience :

IC

Key Skills

Project Management Methodology,Project / Program Management,Construction Estimating,Construction Experience,PMBOK,Visio,Construction Management,Project Management,Project Management Software,Microsoft Project,Project Management Lifecycle,Contracts

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 89700 - 162150