Offer summary

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Network Administration/Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field., 10+ years of Project/Program Management experience., Active Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification., Active Secret clearance..

Key responsabilities:

Develop and deliver the MSB Infrastructure Modernization Program and related timelines.

Create and maintain reporting templates and produce status reports for IRS leadership.

Conduct meetings and workshops, capturing action items and providing timely minutes.

Monitor and track action items, ensuring completion and managing change management activities.

Job description

cFocus Software seeks a Contract Manager to join our program supporting the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). This position is remote. This position requires an active Secret clearance.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Network Administration/Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
10+ years of Project/Program Management experience
Active Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
Active Secret clearance

Duties:

Develop and deliver MSB Infrastructure Modernization Program, legislation Timeline, and Delivery Roadmap
Provide support for identifying and tracking related risks and issues, identifying mitigation strategies and impact to the overall modernization schedule.
Create, update, and respond to MSB reporting templates (i.e., monthly and weekly reporting, Operational Reviews, etc.)
Conduct/facilitate meetings, workshops, architecture design sessions and provide timely meeting minutes and capture action items.
Develop metrics for tracking progress.
Monitor and track action items towards completion.
Conduct periodic review of materials developed during the planning with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)
Produce weekly/monthly/ad-hoc reports on progress/status of the effort.
Submit Monthly Status Reports
Create and maintain required artifacts for internal and external governing bodies.
Create and maintain artifacts such as Action Item tracker, Key Decision tracker and related meeting minutes.
Coordinate internal and external reporting for IRS leadership.
Manage and support change management activities.
Maintain the program documentation to include but not limited to program objectives, business benefits, program scope/boundaries, guiding principles, engagement model, etc.
Perform renewal of certificates for EAIB servers (Java Messaging Service servers, Universal Messaging servers, IS Adapters)
Perform an initial triage of the issue using the EAIB operation guidance documents (Will be provided) and triage decision tree.
Perform any application, database or server restarts and troubleshooting as necessary.
Perform POA&M creation/update and security vulnerability mitigation tasks, including applying required/necessary software patches and obtaining Cybersecurity clearance and verification for those patches.
Perform health check after scheduled DB patching.
Perform health check after scheduled MQ client patching and upgrade on EAIB Integration Servers (IS)
Proactively monitor the MQ connection between EAIB and IBM mainframe.
Coordinate with EST to ensure that the EAIB queues are empty before PETE testing begins
Perform queue clearance when needed.
Update passwords for JDBC Adapter database, MWS (My webMethods Server) database, and Optimizer database
Verify and validate the EAIB VMs when there is an issue/error reported via the daily health check notification.
Perform health check after scheduled OS patching.