IT Project Manager-High Performance Computing, Top Secret Clearance

apartmentBlue Sky Innovators placeArlington calendar_month 

This IT Project Manager role provides principal-level advisory and thought leadership to senior DARPA executives, including the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and senior ITD Staff. As an IT Project Manager, you will be a key strategic resource, shaping the agency's approach to cybersecurity across its most advanced and sensitive technology portfolios.

Seeking a distinguished expert with extensive, deep experience in IT Project Management with a focus on High Performance Computing (HPC) support. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy to provide strategic foresight, critical technical analysis, and authoritative guidance, ensuring that security is an enabler of innovation for DARPA's high-risk, high-reward programs.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide primary support to the government's HPC Director, Support to the HPC Director.
  • Maintain close communication between PM/OD personnel and the HPC Director regarding current and future HPC requirements across the agency.
  • Support the HPC Director in overall HPC Strategy Development and Execution for the agency.
  • Engaging with external DoW partners and investors in HPC related initiatives.
  • Serve as DARPA's Service/Agency Approval Authority (S/AAA) within the DoD HPCMP ecosystem to liaison with DARPA program managers and their contracted scientists and
engineers to secure computational resources on their behalf.
  • Allocate DARPA-assigned CPU compute hours on HPCMP and DARPA systems.
  • Provide day-to-day linkage with DARPA organizations, the HPCMP and other S/AAAs across the HPCMP community.
  • Ensure Project Leaders and authorized HPCMP users are performing work in support of DARPA and the DoD.
  • Implement HPC requirements surveys, resource allocation, resource monitoring and resource reallocation.
  • Provide guidance to users on which HPC assets are appropriate for their projects.
  • Trade allocations with other S/AAAs across the HPCMP community.
  • Under the agile methodology, serve as a Product Manager for any DARPA HPC projects to develop acceptance criteria defining desirable, viable, feasible, and sustainable solutions

that meet customer needs.

Mandatory Qualifications
  • Must have demonstrated a minimum of five (5) years of experience supporting HPC
requirements, services, equities or customers within USG HPC communities, such as the DOD
  • High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP).
  • Minimum Top-Secret clearance, eligible for access to SCI and SAP.

Salary range for the position is $150,000 - $250,000 per year. Specific compensation will be determined by several factors including experience, education, skills, and knowledge. We also offer medical/dental/vision benefits and 401k contribution.

Blue Sky Innovators, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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