Roth Staffing is looking for a Cybersecurity Operations Project Manager for contract position. This is onsite role in Alameda, CA and 12 months Temp/contract role with potential to extend
Pay Rate: $80.00 -or- $90.52 per hour
Top Skills:
1. 5+ years of Cybersecurity Operations and/or IT Infrastructure experience
* Must be comfortable working closely with cybersecurity teams and understanding investigation workflows.
2. Project Management Experience
* Majority of career spent leading projects, coordinating cross-functional teams, managing priorities, and driving execution.
3. Cybersecurity Investigation & Remediation Coordination
* Experience tracking investigations, ensuring required processes are followed, coordinating stakeholders, and driving remediation activities to completion.
* Ability to step in and maintain momentum when cyber leads are unavailable.
4. Analytical & Metrics Reporting Skills
* Ability to analyze operational data, identify trends, interpret results, and explain findings to stakeholders. Examples: team performance metrics, ticket trends, remediation progress, or cybersecurity operational reporting.
5. Initiative, Resourcefulness & Communication
* Self-starter who can work independently, navigate ambiguity, and influence stakeholders across multiple teams.
* Strong verbal and written communication skills, including interaction with leadership and technical teams.
Strong Plus:
* Experience supporting cybersecurity investigations, remediation efforts, vulnerability management activities, or security operations programs.
* Experience leveraging AI tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, or similar) to improve productivity, reporting, analysis, or project execution.
* Experience using Jira or similar ticketing/work management tools.
Job Description
The Cybersecurity Operations Project Manager will drive the clients' cybersecurity operations working with the client Director. This role will lead and support ongoing cybersecurity operations activities, fixes, incident management and projects.
In this role you will represent the cybersecurity operations team and work with leaders, IT Teams, vendors and other cross functional teams to facilitate the monitoring and vulnerability management.
* Primary responsibility is working with Leaders, IT Teams, vendors and other cross functional team to drive cybersecurity operations work
* Acts as a project facilitator to cross functional peers, subordinates, and senior management regarding cybersecurity operations issues, resolutions and enhancements
* Lead implementation planning, drive and monitor execution, and manage risks and issues of cybersecurity initiatives and operational activities
* Provide accurate status reporting of progress and risks of initiatives and activities to all relevant stakeholders
* Communicate effectively at global organization level for cybersecurity related messaging
* Leverage cybersecurity understanding to drive the conversations with stakeholders and ensure all aspects are covered
* Collaborate with cross functional teams to deliver on the cybersecurity initiatives
* Drive vulnerability remediation actions assigned to relevant IT teams
* Facilitate infrastructure monitoring and Incident Management Response to any cybersecurity incidents
* Perform analytics and reporting of cybersecurity trends and metrics
* Participate in relevant scrums, sprints to collaborate to deliver the fixes
* Create and enhance cybersecurity operational and process documentation based on input from the cybersecurity leader and operations team
Skills and Qualifications
* Overall 8+ years of IT experience, with a majority in project leadership / project management roles, and 5+ years of relevant Cybersecurity or IT infrastructure experience
* Experience in managing cybersecurity activities and fixes
* Strong infrastructure background and experience working with vendors to facilitate identifications of vulnerabilities
* Working knowledge of cybersecurity operations
* Experience facilitating fixes with relevant teams
* Ability to understand and articulate "What is at Stake" from cyber security perspective to the relevant teams
* Understanding of infrastructure and cybersecurity technologies and standards
* Proficiency in both oral and written communications (including executive level presentations)
* Strong systems analysis experience
* A bachelor's degree in any area but, Computer Science or related discipline preferred
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, or military or veteran status. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with state and local laws, including the California Fair Chance Act, City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
