Job Description

Senior IT Project Manager – Cybersecurity

Location: Tampa, FL (Hybrid – 4 Days Onsite)
Work Location: Midtown Tampa – 3659 Midtown Drive, Tampa, FL 33607
Employment Type: Long-Term Contract (24 Months)
Industry: Electric Utility / Energy
Rate: $65-$80/Hr

Position Overview

Seeking a polished Senior IT Project Manager to lead multiple enterprise cybersecurity and IT infrastructure initiatives. This role is highly visible and requires regular executive presentations, cross-functional leadership, vendor coordination, and close partnership with cybersecurity, infrastructure, SAP, and enterprise technology teams.

This is not a hands-on cybersecurity engineering role. The ideal candidate is an experienced IT Project Manager with a proven history of delivering cybersecurity, infrastructure, or SAP projects using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

Required:

• PMP Certification (Required and verified)
• Bachelor's Degree (Required and verified)
• Minimum 7 years of IT Project Management experience

Responsibilities

Project Leadership

• Lead 3–5 concurrent enterprise IT projects.
• Develop project charters, scope, schedules, and resource plans.
• Manage project budgets, forecasting, and cost estimates.
• Track milestones, deliverables, and dependencies.
• Coordinate project testing and implementation activities.

Cybersecurity Program Support

• Support enterprise cybersecurity initiatives.
• Coordinate with Cybersecurity SMEs, Infrastructure, Networking, and Application teams.
• Drive planning and execution of security projects.
• Ensure accountability across technical teams.
• Coordinate security testing and implementation activities.

Project Controls

• Maintain:
  • RAID Logs
  • Risk Registers
  • Issue Logs
  • Action Items
  • Budget Tracking
  • Resource Forecasting
  • Meeting Minutes
  • Executive Status Reports
• Communicate project health to executive leadership.

Stakeholder Management

• Present project updates to executive leadership.
• Coordinate vendors and consulting partners.
• Facilitate steering committee meetings.
• Manage stakeholder expectations.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree.
• PMP Certification.
• 7+ years of IT Project Management experience.
• Experience managing enterprise IT projects.
• Cybersecurity project experience.
• Agile methodology.
• Waterfall methodology.
• SDLC experience.
• Vendor Management.
• Budget forecasting.
• Resource planning.
• Executive presentations.
• Risk management.
• Strong documentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Electric Utility experience.
• Energy industry experience.
• SAP project experience.
• Azure DevOps (ADO).
• Smartsheet.
• Infrastructure projects.
• Network projects.
• Cloud migration.
• Security Governance.
• NERC CIP projects.
• Enterprise PMO experience.

Required Tools

• Azure DevOps (ADO)
• Smartsheet
• Microsoft Project
• Microsoft Office
• Excel
• PowerPoint