Cloud Project Manager

Location: Atlanta, GA, United States

Category: Program Management

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: No

Minimum Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Poly

Remote: No

Our staff at Elite Paradigm have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge solutions that will affect people’s lives now and in the future. In order to collaborate to create the future and have fun while doing it, we seek out individuals with audacious new ideas, courage, and a pioneering attitude. Our culture is one that values intellectual vigor, cognitive diversity, and bringing your complete self to work. We also have an unquenchable desire to do things that other people might consider to be unachievable.

Push the limits of what is possible to put your abilities to the test. Your knowledge and skills will make it possible, from global defense to mission readiness, sustainment, and modernization. Programs offered by Elite Paradigm are based equally on collaboration and inquiry. Together, we can connect and defend millions of individuals throughout the world for our customers.

Position Overview:

Elite Paradigm provides solutions and services supporting digital modernization programs in areas such as systems engineering, multi-cloud computing, cybersecurity, data science and analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, quantum computing, application development, SecDevOps, cloud network operations, and secure communications.

We are seeking a highly motivated Cloud Project Manager to join our Cloud team.  As a Cloud Project Manager, you will support the program manager with the planning and coordination of commercial cloud-related activities, including cloud brokerage advisory services, infrastructure deployment, operational improvements, customer outreach services, and multi-cloud strategy and governance advisory services.  Additionally, you will work closely with the technical team in translating IT strategic goals, roadmaps, and mission requirements into future state architectures designed to leverage cutting-edge functionality.

Responsibilities of this position will include but not be limited to the following:

  • Performing day-to-day management and developing long-term and strategic objectives to ensure mission needs will be satisfied in future years of the contract
  • Assisting the program manager with the creation, maintenance, and monitoring of program baseline scope, schedule, cost and quality
  • Ensuring the most efficient unbiased execution of multi-cloud strategies, brokerage advisory, governance advisory, community outreach, and technical program management
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Maintaining the Monthly Contractor Status Report (MCSR) and Contract Data Requirement List (CDRL)
  • Updating the Program Management Plan and Task Order Strategic Plans
  • Profit and Loss (P&L)
  • Ensuring uniformity of streamlined methodologies, including Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), DevSecOps practices, and Cloud Capability Comparative Analysis (C3A)
  • Execution of CIMM CSP research activities
  • Programmatic execution meetings, including Program Management Reviews (PMRs) and Technical Exchange Meetings (TEMs)
  • Ensuring transparent solutions driven environments in order to meet the Sponsor’s satisfaction goals and employee benefit
  • Promoting new solutions and features to enhance cloud computing activities
  • Identifying tools and resources needed to enable repeatable and differentiated offerings and capabilities

Qualifications

  • Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
  • Bachelor’s Degree or ten (10) years of cloud related work experience in lieu of degree
  • Operational experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), IBM Cloud, and/or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Outstanding verbal and written communications skills
  • Ten (10) or more years of experience owning and driving end-to-end large-scale, cross-functional programs
  • Administration, Customer, and Management: Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer services.  This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction
  • Production and Processing: Knowledge of production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective implementation of computing systems to meet mission needs
  • Personnel and Human Resources: Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiations, and personnel information systems
  • Critical Thinking:
  • Experience using logic and reasoning to identify strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems
  • Judgement and Decision Making:
  • Experience with considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one
  • Management of Personnel Resources: Experience motivating, developing, and directing people
  • Coordination: Experience adjusting actions in relation to others’ actions
  • Monitoring: Experience monitoring and assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action
  • Strong Technical Background: Experience in either cloud engineering or cloud technical program management is strongly preferred (e.g., experience as a cloud architect, technical program manager, or similar)
  • Experience with security and risk compliance
  • Ability to prioritize activities in complex projects and programs, and influence stakeholders at times with limited direct authority
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple technical projects from concept to deployment
  • Strong project management skills of breaking down tasks, simplifying roadmaps, establishing owners and timelines, and completing status reporting
  • Strong analytical and quantitative skills
  • Ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and evaluate outcomes
  • Ability to be resourceful and creative in collecting data with experience collecting large amounts of data and translating it into requirements
  • Possesses mature leadership and management skills
  • Experience providing advice and assistance to project managers and workforce
  • Certification: Project Management Professional (PMP)

Desired qualifications:

  • Certifications in any of the following CSPs:
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • IBM
  • Oracle
  • Experience with Program Estimation Review Techniques (PERTs)
  • Experience with data visualization and analytical tools
  • Strong analysis and quality assessment skills

Interested candidates email your CV/resume to opportunities@eliteparadigmllc.com