Senior Program Director, Virginia

Responsibilities:
Peraton is seeking a Senior Program Director (“PM”) to lead our team of highly skilled, dedicated, and motivated professionals supporting our federal customer’s mission-critical IT Infrastructure Operations Program. The Program provides IT Operations and Maintenance to modernize and maintain the legacy networks, applications, and databases supporting services.

 

The PM will provide strategic and operational oversight and lead a program leadership team that oversees over 450 team members that provide 24x7x365 IT O&M services to plan, engineer, implement, enhance, maintain, and operate the enterprise IT infrastructure environment.

 

The PM is an accomplished leader who will work with program leadership to evolve and refine strategy, ensure sound execution, and deliver operational excellence. The PM will leverage ITIL/ITSM and infrastructure operations experience to implement continual improvement and innovation, and drive the migration of on-premise legacy infrastructure into a hybrid multi-cloud environment.

 

Key Responsibilities

 

Strategic Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement

Serve as the primary executive interface to the customer

Develop a trusted advisor relationship with customer leadership, the Contracting Officer/COR, and other contractors

Translate customer’s mission and IT modernization goals into actionable IT strategy

Oversee long-term planning for IT operations and cloud transformation aligned with customer objectives

 IT Infrastructure & Operations Management

Lead 24x7x365 operations of data centers and networking, tiered help desk and field support, and mission-critical systems

Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and Continuity of Operations planning

Monitor performance and compliance with SLAs, KPIs, and OLAs

 Cloud Migration & Digital Modernization

Drive migration of legacy infrastructure to AWS, Azure, or hybrid cloud platforms

Coordinate cloud architecture design, workload transition planning, and post-migration optimization

Enable secure, scalable, and agile service delivery through cloud-native and container-based solutions

 Cybersecurity & Compliance

Ensure compliance with FISMA and NIST 800-53 and 800-171

Work with security teams to manage system Authority to Operate (ATO) and risk mitigation

Maintain audit readiness and incident response planning across a geographically dispersed IT footprint

 Contract & Financial Management

Oversee all aspects of a large, complex contract lifecycle, including budgeting and forecasting, cost and schedule control, task order management and pricing, and contractual reporting and Earned Value Management (EVM)

Lead subcontractor oversight and vendor performance management

 Personnel and Organizational Leadership

Lead a multifunctional team of technical and operational personnel

Develop and maintain staffing plans, talent acquisition strategies, and workforce readiness

Ensure clearance management, training, and leadership development across program tiers

Work Location

 

The PM must be local to the Washington, DC, area. This position is currently hybrid. The PM must be available to work in Peraton’s office in Sterling, VA, at least one day a week and at the customer facility in Washington, DC, at least one day a week.

Qualifications:
Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in IT, Engineering, Business, or a related field

Active Top Secret clearance

PMP certification

ITIL 4 Foundation (or higher) certification

18+ years of experience, including 15+ years of progressive leadership in IT program management, with:10+ years managing federal IT operations contracts

5+ years managing and leading geographically dispersed operations and engineering staff of varying skill levels

Experience briefing and working directly with senior government and corporate leadership

Demonstrated experience in:IT Service Delivery using an ITIL/ITSM framework on projects of similar size, scope, and complexity

Implementing SLAs and performance metrics on a contract

Leading major innovation/transformation programs

Developing and implementing technical and organizational strategy and solutions to complex challenges with a customer-centric mindset

Leading the planning, rationalization, and migration of on-premise legacy infrastructure into a multi-cloud environment (AWS, Azure, hybrid)

Supporting mission-critical systems, identity management, or public-facing government applications

Earned Value Management on projects of similar size, scope, and complexity

Operating in high-compliance environments (NIST, FISMA, FedRAMP)

 Preferred Qualifications

 

Master’s degree (e.g., MBA, MS in IT Management)

Demonstrated experience in:

Federal procurement process and familiarity with the administration of cost-type contracts

SDLC process, SAFe Agile principles/methodologies and experience modernizing the processes, procedures, and application support environment toward CI/CD or DevSecOps approach

Knowledge of Zscaler

Peraton Overview:
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Target Salary Range:
$190,000 - $304,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

EEO:
EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.