Certification Project Manager (Cybersecurity)

Location: Italy, EMEA

Salary: €54,000–€77,000 per year, including base salary and any applicable target bonus opportunity.

Company

hirify.global develops enterprise open source software, including Linux, Kubernetes, Edge, and AI infrastructure solutions.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end security certification cycles, including Common Criteria and FIPS, for enterprise products.
• Translate security functional and assurance requirements into engineering milestones and track delivery.
• Coordinate with evaluation laboratories and certification bodies such as BSI, NIAP, and ANSSI.
• Manage certification applications, technical inquiries, project risks, schedules, quality, and audit-ready documentation.
• Coordinate Engineering, project management, external consultants, and partners around compliance requirements.
• Organize workshops and enablement sessions to improve internal security and compliance awareness.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software product development or enterprise IT infrastructure.
• 1–2 years of experience managing product security compliance, particularly Common Criteria with NIAP VPP or GPOS, plus NIST/FIPS or ISO standards.
• Technical familiarity with Linux, KVM-based hypervisors, containerized virtualization, hyperconverged infrastructure, and related security boundaries.
• Experience executing milestones and using Jira, Confluence, MS Project, and AI-assisted productivity workflows.
• Strong diplomatic, negotiation, communication, and relationship-management skills.
• Fluent professional spoken and written English is required. A project management qualification such as PMP or GPM/IPMA level C/D is expected.

Nice to have

• German, Spanish, or Italian language skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Open source-focused environment built around Choice, Community, Trust, and Innovation.
• Global community with an emphasis on inclusion, collaboration, and diverse perspectives.
• Dynamic environment that values entrepreneurship, experimentation, adaptability, and execution.
• Competitive compensation and an attractive benefits package.
• Background checks may include criminal, credit, and employment references after offer acceptance, where legally permitted.