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External Title Senior Technical Manager

Job in Northern, Floyd County, Kentucky, USA
Listing for: Peraton
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-18
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Systems Engineer
  • IT/Tech
    Systems Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 176000 - 282000 USD Yearly USD 176000.00 282000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking a Senior Technical Manager to support our customer onsite in Washington D.C. The Senior Technical Manager will provide technical and operational leadership for cyber security support services, Assessment & Authorization (A&A), and Cyber Monitoring programs. This role requires strong leadership savvy to manage cross-functional technical teams, drive project execution within programmatic guidelines set by the Program Manager and customer, and ensure delivery of secure, compliant, and mission-ready IT and cybersecurity solutions.

Candidates must have a TS/SCI clearance and hold a DoD 8140-advance certification.

Key Responsibilities include:

  • Demonstrated leadership acumen, with experience leading technical teams and managing stakeholder relationships across program and customer organizations.
  • Develops project objectives by reviewing project proposals and plans and conferring with management.
  • Determines project responsibilities by identifying project phases and elements, assigning personnel to phases and elements, and reviewing bids from contractors.
  • Determines project specifications by studying product design, customer requirements, and performance standards; completing technical studies; and preparing cost estimates.
  • Confirms product performance by designing and conducting tests.
  • Determines project schedule by studying the project plan and specifications, calculating time requirements, and sequencing project elements.
  • Maintains project schedule by monitoring project progress, coordinating activities, and resolving problems.
  • Controls the project plan by reviewing design, specifications, and plan/schedule changes, and recommending actions.
  • Controls project costs by approving expenditure and administering contractor contracts.
  • Prepares project status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends, and recommending actions.
  • Provides technical/operational leadership of a project/mission within the programmatic guidelines set by the Program Manager and customer.
  • Defines, generates, and reviews project requirements documentation.

    Performs technical studies to refine project requirements.
  • Monitors the project to ensure work scope, schedule, and budget are well defined and maintained.
  • Write and deliver white papers and brief executive leadership
  • Develops project objectives by reviewing project proposals and plans, conferring with management.
  • Determines project responsibilities by identifying project phases and elements; assigning personnel to phases and elements; reviewing bids from contractors.
  • Determines project specifications by studying product design, customer requirements, and performance standards; completing technical studies; preparing cost estimates.
  • Confirms product performance by designing and conducting tests. Determines project schedule by studying project plan and specifications; calculating time requirements; sequencing project elements.
  • Maintains project schedule by monitoring project progress; coordinating activities; resolving problems.
  • Controls project plan by reviewing design, specifications, and plan and schedule changes; recommending actions.
  • Controls project costs by approving expenditures; administering contractor contracts.
  • Prepares project status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends, recommending actions.
  • Responsible for technical/operational leadership of a project/mission within the programmatic guidelines set by the program manager and customer.
  • Defines, generates, and reviews project requirements documentation.
  • Performs technical studies to refine project requirements.
  • Monitors project to ensure work scope, schedule, and budget are well defined and maintained.
Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • Requires 12 years of relevant experience, may have supervisory or management experience
  • Requires a four-year degree or four years work experience equivalent and minimum 5 years leading project systems engineers to deliver new and upgrade existing services
  • Certification: Information Assurance certification consistent with DoD 8140 advanced-level certification.
  • Clearance: Active TS/SCI required
  • 4 years of recent (within the past 5 years) experience with Microsoft operating systems and software, the VMware technology suite, and Linux.
  • Experience with VMware datacenter solutions for enclaves, multitenancy, high availability, and disaster recovery.
  • Experience with Dev Ops, automation, and scripting.
  • Experience with RMF and DoDAF 2.0 documentation…
Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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