American Business Solutions
Engagement Type
Contract
this role.
Key Responsibilities:
Team Coordination & Cross-Work Stream Interaction:
-Facilitate coordination between cross-functional teams and work streams to ensure effective communication, knowledge sharing, and alignment across departments.
-Drive collaboration between different teams, ensuring that each work stream is on track, with clear ownership and timelines.
-Act as the main point of contact between work streams, ensuring that dependencies between teams are identified and managed proactively.
Project Oversight & Progress Monitoring:
-Develop comprehensive project plans that outline clear goals, milestones, deadlines, and responsibilities across multiple work streams.
-Track the progress of all work streams within a project, ensuring that individual streams align with overall project objectives and timelines.
-Address any delays or issues that arise, ensuring smooth project progression and that any interdependencies are handled efficiently.
Resource Allocation & Bandwidth Management:
-Monitor team capacity and bandwidth across work streams to ensure that resources are optimally allocated and that no team or individual is overburdened.
-Reallocate resources as needed to maintain a balanced workload and ensure high-priority tasks are completed on time.
-Ensure alignment of resources across multiple work streams to avoid conflicts and optimize productivity.
Performance Tracking & Evaluation:
-Continuously monitor and evaluate the performance of teams and work streams, using data to assess productivity and identify areas for improvement.
-Provide regular feedback to team members and work stream leaders, identifying opportunities for process improvements or resource adjustments.
-Report on the status of project deliverables and team performance to senior leadership, offering insights and actionable recommendations.
Task Progression & Outcome Evaluation:
-Ensure the timely completion of tasks across work streams, making adjustments as needed to accommodate shifts in priorities or resources.
-Evaluate the outcomes of completed projects, identifying key successes and areas for future improvement.
Risk, Security & Issue Management:
-Proactively identify and address potential risks, including
cybersecurity vulnerabilities
or compliance issues, that may affect the progress or quality of work across different work streams.
-Develop risk
mitigation plans
and implement corrective actions promptly to keep projects on course.
-Ensure that all project risks, including those related to
security policies and data protection , are communicated to stakeholders in a timely manner.
-Maintain familiarity with
state agency security regulations
and ensure that applications and systems comply with applicable
state and federal security policies
and standards.
Security Collaboration & Guidance:
-Work closely with enterprise security teams to review and validate security architecture for applications across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
-Provide ongoing security guidance to application development and DevOps teams, ensuring adherence to security best practices throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
-Collaborate on the implementation of secure CI/CD pipelines, integrating security checks such as static/dynamic code analysis, secrets scanning, and artifact integrity verification.
-Guide teams on proper configuration and use of cloud security services (e.g., IAM, encryption, network security controls) in platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
-Assist in developing and enforcing infrastructure security standards, including secure provisioning, patch management, and hardening of resources across environments.
-Participate in threat modeling and security risk assessments to proactively identify and mitigate vulnerabilities in application design and deployment strategies.
Vendor Management & Collaboration:
-Oversee relationships with external vendors, ensuring they deliver products and services on time and within agreed-upon terms.
-Collaborate with vendors to resolve any project-related issues and ensure that their deliverables meet organizational and security standards.
-Ensure that vendor engagements include appropriate
security clauses , and that vendors adhere to
state-mandated cybersecurity practices .
Continuous Improvement & Process Optimization:
-Identify opportunities to streamline workflows across work streams, improve communication, and increase efficiency.
-Implement best practices and process improvements to optimize project execution, resource allocation, and team collaboration.
-Continuously integrate
security best practices
into the application lifecycle and project management methodologies.
Qualifications:
-10+years' experience in application management, project oversight, and cross-functional team coordination.
-Strong leadership and organizational skills with a demonstrated ability to manage and oversee multiple teams and work streams simultaneously.
-Proven experience collaborating with security architects and engineering teams to ensure secure application design and deployment.
-Strong understanding of cloud security principles, including identity management, encryption, and network segmentation.
-Experience with secure CI/CD practices and infrastructure-as-code security controls (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, GitOps).
-Familiarity with security tools and platforms, container security, vulnerability management, and SIEM systems.
-Demonstrated experience
with cybersecurity principles, secure application development, and
compliance with
state agency IT security policies .
-Familiarity with regulatory frameworks such as
NIST, HIPAA, CJIS, or other relevant government security standards .
-Experience in vendor management, including negotiation, performance tracking, and contract management.
-Expertise in project management tools and methodologies, with the ability to track performance and optimize resources effectively.
-Excellent communication skills with the ability to drive cross-functional collaborationand manage complex relationships.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to manage risks and resolve issues in a timely manner.
Required/Desired Skills
Skill Required/Desired Amount of Experience Application management, project oversight, and cross-functional team coordination. Required 10 Years Strong leadership and organizational skills with a demonstrated ability to manage and oversee multiple teams and work streams simultaneously. Required 0 Proven experience collaborating with security architects and engineering teams to ensure secure application design and deployment. Required 0 Strong understanding of cloud security principles, including identity management, encryption, and network segmentation. Required 0 Experience with secure CI/CD practices and infrastructure-as-code security controls (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, GitOps). Required 5 Years Familiarity with security tools and platforms, container security, vulnerability management, and SIEM systems. Highly desired 0 Demonstrated experience with cybersecurity principles, secure application development, and compliance with state agency IT security policies. Required 5 Years Familiarity with regulatory frameworks such as NIST, HIPAA, CJIS, or other relevant government security standards. Highly desired 0 Experience in vendor management, including negotiation, performance tracking, and contract management. Required 5 Years Expertise in project management tools and methodologies, with the ability to track performance and optimize resources effectively. Required 0 Excellent communication skills with the ability to drive cross-functional collaboration and manage complex relationships. Required 0 Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to manage risks and resolve issues in a timely manner. Required 0
Skills:
CI/CD,Terraform, Ansible, GitOps
Contract
this role.
Key Responsibilities:
Team Coordination & Cross-Work Stream Interaction:
-Facilitate coordination between cross-functional teams and work streams to ensure effective communication, knowledge sharing, and alignment across departments.
-Drive collaboration between different teams, ensuring that each work stream is on track, with clear ownership and timelines.
-Act as the main point of contact between work streams, ensuring that dependencies between teams are identified and managed proactively.
Project Oversight & Progress Monitoring:
-Develop comprehensive project plans that outline clear goals, milestones, deadlines, and responsibilities across multiple work streams.
-Track the progress of all work streams within a project, ensuring that individual streams align with overall project objectives and timelines.
-Address any delays or issues that arise, ensuring smooth project progression and that any interdependencies are handled efficiently.
Resource Allocation & Bandwidth Management:
-Monitor team capacity and bandwidth across work streams to ensure that resources are optimally allocated and that no team or individual is overburdened.
-Reallocate resources as needed to maintain a balanced workload and ensure high-priority tasks are completed on time.
-Ensure alignment of resources across multiple work streams to avoid conflicts and optimize productivity.
Performance Tracking & Evaluation:
-Continuously monitor and evaluate the performance of teams and work streams, using data to assess productivity and identify areas for improvement.
-Provide regular feedback to team members and work stream leaders, identifying opportunities for process improvements or resource adjustments.
-Report on the status of project deliverables and team performance to senior leadership, offering insights and actionable recommendations.
Task Progression & Outcome Evaluation:
-Ensure the timely completion of tasks across work streams, making adjustments as needed to accommodate shifts in priorities or resources.
-Evaluate the outcomes of completed projects, identifying key successes and areas for future improvement.
Risk, Security & Issue Management:
-Proactively identify and address potential risks, including
cybersecurity vulnerabilities
or compliance issues, that may affect the progress or quality of work across different work streams.
-Develop risk
mitigation plans
and implement corrective actions promptly to keep projects on course.
-Ensure that all project risks, including those related to
security policies and data protection , are communicated to stakeholders in a timely manner.
-Maintain familiarity with
state agency security regulations
and ensure that applications and systems comply with applicable
state and federal security policies
and standards.
Security Collaboration & Guidance:
-Work closely with enterprise security teams to review and validate security architecture for applications across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
-Provide ongoing security guidance to application development and DevOps teams, ensuring adherence to security best practices throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
-Collaborate on the implementation of secure CI/CD pipelines, integrating security checks such as static/dynamic code analysis, secrets scanning, and artifact integrity verification.
-Guide teams on proper configuration and use of cloud security services (e.g., IAM, encryption, network security controls) in platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
-Assist in developing and enforcing infrastructure security standards, including secure provisioning, patch management, and hardening of resources across environments.
-Participate in threat modeling and security risk assessments to proactively identify and mitigate vulnerabilities in application design and deployment strategies.
Vendor Management & Collaboration:
-Oversee relationships with external vendors, ensuring they deliver products and services on time and within agreed-upon terms.
-Collaborate with vendors to resolve any project-related issues and ensure that their deliverables meet organizational and security standards.
-Ensure that vendor engagements include appropriate
security clauses , and that vendors adhere to
state-mandated cybersecurity practices .
Continuous Improvement & Process Optimization:
-Identify opportunities to streamline workflows across work streams, improve communication, and increase efficiency.
-Implement best practices and process improvements to optimize project execution, resource allocation, and team collaboration.
-Continuously integrate
security best practices
into the application lifecycle and project management methodologies.
Qualifications:
-10+years' experience in application management, project oversight, and cross-functional team coordination.
-Strong leadership and organizational skills with a demonstrated ability to manage and oversee multiple teams and work streams simultaneously.
-Proven experience collaborating with security architects and engineering teams to ensure secure application design and deployment.
-Strong understanding of cloud security principles, including identity management, encryption, and network segmentation.
-Experience with secure CI/CD practices and infrastructure-as-code security controls (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, GitOps).
-Familiarity with security tools and platforms, container security, vulnerability management, and SIEM systems.
-Demonstrated experience
with cybersecurity principles, secure application development, and
compliance with
state agency IT security policies .
-Familiarity with regulatory frameworks such as
NIST, HIPAA, CJIS, or other relevant government security standards .
-Experience in vendor management, including negotiation, performance tracking, and contract management.
-Expertise in project management tools and methodologies, with the ability to track performance and optimize resources effectively.
-Excellent communication skills with the ability to drive cross-functional collaborationand manage complex relationships.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to manage risks and resolve issues in a timely manner.
Required/Desired Skills
Skill Required/Desired Amount of Experience Application management, project oversight, and cross-functional team coordination. Required 10 Years Strong leadership and organizational skills with a demonstrated ability to manage and oversee multiple teams and work streams simultaneously. Required 0 Proven experience collaborating with security architects and engineering teams to ensure secure application design and deployment. Required 0 Strong understanding of cloud security principles, including identity management, encryption, and network segmentation. Required 0 Experience with secure CI/CD practices and infrastructure-as-code security controls (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, GitOps). Required 5 Years Familiarity with security tools and platforms, container security, vulnerability management, and SIEM systems. Highly desired 0 Demonstrated experience with cybersecurity principles, secure application development, and compliance with state agency IT security policies. Required 5 Years Familiarity with regulatory frameworks such as NIST, HIPAA, CJIS, or other relevant government security standards. Highly desired 0 Experience in vendor management, including negotiation, performance tracking, and contract management. Required 5 Years Expertise in project management tools and methodologies, with the ability to track performance and optimize resources effectively. Required 0 Excellent communication skills with the ability to drive cross-functional collaboration and manage complex relationships. Required 0 Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to manage risks and resolve issues in a timely manner. Required 0
Skills:
CI/CD,Terraform, Ansible, GitOps