Senior Cloud Technical Project Manager

🕒 August 31

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $165k - $170k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🤓 Technical Project Manager

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Cherokee Federal

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1969

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Healthcare • Logistics • Manufacturing

Cherokee Federal is a U. S. federal systems integrator and government contractor that empowers mission success for more than 60 U. S. federal agencies. With a global workforce of over 5,000, it delivers advanced technology (cloud, cybersecurity, data & analytics), health services, intelligence analysis and operational support, logistics and sustainment, mission-critical manufacturing, program and engineering technical services, and dynamic contracting solutions to support federal priorities and national security. Cherokee Federal is part of Cherokee Nation Businesses and focuses on mission-focused, U. S. -made solutions.

📋 Description

• Lead cloud security operations for NSF AWS environments, including triage, investigation, containment, and recovery • Own Splunk Enterprise Security content and operations, including data onboarding, CIM alignment, correlation searches, notable event tuning, risk-based alerting, dashboards, and reporting • Own Prisma Cloud CSPM outcomes, including posture baselines, policy standards and exceptions, remediation workflows, and risk-reduction tracking • Engineer and mature AWS logging and detection coverage • Integrate and operationalize CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, Route 53 Resolver logs, ALB/ELB logs, AWS Config, CloudWatch, GuardDuty, and Security Hub into Splunk ES and Prisma Cloud • Lead MITRE ATT&CK-mapped detection engineering • Define and execute AWS incident response playbooks and escalation paths • Ensure evidence capture, timeline reconstruction, and post-incident corrective actions • Drive continuous monitoring and compliance alignment with FISMA and NIST 800-53 • Support audits through repeatable evidence packages • Partner with cloud platform, network, and application teams to implement security guardrails • Prioritize and track remediation of misconfigurations and security findings • Automate security workflows such as enrichment, ticketing, evidence capture, and containment actions • Establish operational metrics and reporting cadence, including MTTD, MTTR, detection coverage, backlog, and security posture trends • Manage team performance, technical quality, and delivery commitments • Mentor analysts and engineers • Participate in after-hours escalation and on-call activities as needed • Perform other job-related duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Public Trust or ability to acquire a Public Trust • 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity, cloud security, or security operations, including 3+ years leading technical teams • Hands-on experience securing and operating production cloud environments • AWS and/or Azure experience preferred; GCP experience acceptable • Strong experience with SIEM operations, log onboarding, correlation rules, alert tuning, and investigative workflows • Experience with cloud incident response, including evidence handling and root-cause analysis • Working knowledge of cloud IAM, networking, encryption, key management, and secure service configurations • Experience with vulnerability management tools and coordinating remediation across engineering teams • Ability to write clear operational documentation and deliver concise, executive-ready status reporting • Security-first technical leadership with decisive incident-command capabilities • Strong prioritization and risk-based decision-making skills • Ability to drive effective execution across technical and business teams • Clear communication skills with technical teams and senior stakeholders • Continuous-improvement mindset focused on measurable outcomes • Must pass pre-employment qualifications of Cherokee Federal

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical • Dental • Vision • 401K • Other possible benefits as provided • Military-friendly employer