Project Manager, Government Projects Team (Cybersecurity)

Location: Hybrid in Lisbon, Portugal or London, UK; U.S. or UK citizenship required due to government security clearance requirements.

Salary: €77,000–€106,000 annual salary for Portugal-based hires, adjusted by work location.

Company

hirify.global operates a global network that protects and accelerates Internet applications, websites, and online services, with a mission to help build a better Internet.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex technology initiatives for government and federal environments.
• Plan and coordinate legacy-network, security-platform, and cloud migrations, including testing, readiness, communications, cutover, and operational handover.
• Develop program plans, business cases, resource forecasts, cost-to-deliver estimates, delivery approaches, and procurement or proposal inputs.
• Own scope, milestones, budgets, dependencies, risks, executive reporting, and blocker escalation across technical teams and external partners.
• Align engineering, product, security, agency, vendor, and partner stakeholders around mission outcomes.
• Establish delivery methodologies, produce strategic recommendations and guides, and document lessons learned.

Requirements

• U.S. or UK citizenship is required because of government security clearance requirements.
• At least 15 years of experience in technology program management, IT operations, infrastructure delivery, or government mission support.
• Experience managing organizations of varying sizes in mission-critical and highly regulated environments.
• Experience with infrastructure modernization, platform automation, workforce development, talent pipeline management, and technical skill gap analysis.
• Ability to build metrics, KPI dashboards, and reporting systems for executive decision-making.
• Exceptional verbal, written, listening, presentation, influencing, prioritization, and problem-solving skills.
• Deep knowledge of networking technologies, including TCP/IP, DNS, and IPv4/IPv6.
• Thorough knowledge of Internet security, including DDoS mitigation, firewalls, TLS, VPN, ZTNA, SASE, and identity or authentication concepts.
• Foundation in AWS, GCP, Azure, Windows, macOS, Linux, government security frameworks, accreditation, compliance, threat activity, adversary tradecraft, cyber operations, and infrastructure automation or scripting.

Nice to have

• Experience with BGP, GRE, SD-WAN, MPLS, or Global Traffic Management.
• Knowledge of HTTP technologies, reverse proxies, WAF, CDN, forward proxies, Secure Web Gateways, or serverless application development.
• Familiarity with DLP, iOS or Android administration, Python, JavaScript, Golang, BASH, or the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in hirify.global’s Emerging Technology and Incubation department on public-sector technology programs.
• Creative, stimulating environment focused on curiosity, iteration, practical problem-solving, and using AI to improve delivery.
• Role is eligible for participation in hirify.global’s equity plan.
• Offer-stage candidates may be asked to attend an in-person interview at a hirify.global office or hub.
• Employment may be conditioned on authorization to receive technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.