Senior Network Security Project Manager
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- Reading, United Kingdom
- Full-Time Consulting
- Job # 474382
- Date posted - 2018-02-15
What you’ll be doing...
At Verizon, you can work for a company that tackles the world’s toughest challenges. We’re creating solutions that help businesses optimize their operations, families connect from anywhere, and whole communities leave smaller, greener footprints. It takes vision. It takes focus. That’s why we’re bringing together the brightest minds and latest technologies – to push boundaries, drive real change, and create a brighter future for all. This is the kind of work we do. And you can be part of it.
We are currently hiring for a Senior Project Manager (Security) to join our Professional Services team in Reading or London.
As a Senior Project Manager you will:
- Work with the biggest UK and EMEA based clients, taking ownership of delivering best-in class security solutions.
- Be accountable for the overall success of each assigned project and/or program including fulfillment of the client business and technical requirements and adherence to the approved project scope, schedule and budget.
- Be expected to lead projects through their full lifecycle, Planning, Executing, Controlling, and Closing.
- Be expected to support multiple projects concurrently.
- Take direct ownership of project resourcing including the maintenance of accurate forecasting and time recording.
- Manage project financial performance including customer billing.
- Provide pre-sales support to the wider Security practice, typically supporting the development of customer SOWs and estimates.
What we’re looking for...
You'll need to have:
- Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience.
Even better if you have:
- A degree.
- Direct and recent experience with managing Network Security and/or Information Security projects, to include areas such as:
- Network security infrastructure install/configuration/management
- Identity & Access Management
- Governance projects
- Cloud
- Extensive client facing experience working within a Professional Services or Service Provider type organization.
- A good understanding of the security space generally.
- Five or more years of recent project management experience, with a consistent job function supporting this as a primary responsibility.
- Good understanding and usage of project management processes and principles, including experience in deliverables associated with these practices.
- Experience managing remote and matrix managed resources across multiple business and technical silos.
- Experience managing international projects.
- A methodical and detailed oriented approach to delivery.
- Experience working in challenging, dynamic and fast paced environments.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) or PRINCE2 certification.
- ITIL V3 Foundation certification.
When you join Verizon...
You’ll be doing work that matters alongside other talented people, transforming the way people, businesses and things connect with each other. Beyond powering America’s fastest and most reliable network, we’re leading the way in broadband, cloud and security solutions, Internet of Things and innovating in areas such as, video entertainment. Of course, we will offer you great pay and benefits, but we’re about more than that. Verizon is a place where you can craft your own path to greatness. Whether you think in code, words, pictures or numbers, find your future at Verizon.
