Senior Cloud Technical Project Manager

Cherokee Federal is a federal services provider supporting government missions, and this position supports the National Science Foundation's cloud security mission. The Senior Cloud Technical Project Manager leads AWS cloud security operations, including monitoring, incident response, vulnerability management, detection engineering, compliance, automation, and secure cloud operations while managing and mentoring a technical team.

Responsibilities:

• Lead cloud security operations for NSF AWS environments, including triage, investigation, containment, and recovery
• Own Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) content and operations, including data onboarding, Common Information Model (CIM) alignment, correlation searches, notable event tuning, risk-based alerting (RBA), dashboards, and reporting
• Own Prisma Cloud Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) outcomes, including posture baselines, policy standards and exceptions, remediation workflows, and risk-reduction tracking
• Engineer and mature AWS logging and detection coverage. Integrate and operationalize CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, Route 53 Resolver logs, ALB/ELB logs, AWS Config, CloudWatch, GuardDuty, and Security Hub into Splunk ES and Prisma Cloud
• Lead detection engineering mapped to MITRE ATT&CK. Improve detection fidelity, reduce false positives, and drive use-case lifecycle management
• Define and execute AWS incident response playbooks and escalation paths. Ensure evidence capture, timeline reconstruction, and post-incident corrective actions
• Drive continuous monitoring and compliance alignment with federal requirements, including FISMA and NIST 800-53. Support audits through repeatable evidence packages
• Partner with cloud platform, network, and application teams to implement security guardrails, including IAM least privilege, MFA, KMS encryption, segmentation, centralized logging, and secure configurations
• Prioritize and track remediation of misconfigurations and security findings identified through Prisma Cloud, AWS services, and Splunk ES investigations
• Automate key security workflows where possible, including enrichment, ticketing, evidence capture, and containment actions using scripting and integration patterns
• Establish operational metrics and reporting cadence, including MTTD, MTTR, detection coverage, backlog, and security posture trends
• Manage team performance, technical quality, and delivery commitments while mentoring analysts and engineers
• Participate in after-hours escalation and on-call activities as needed
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned

Requirements:

• This position requires a Public Trust or ability to acquire a Public Trust
• 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity, cloud security, or security operations, including 3+ years leading technical teams
• Hands-on experience securing and operating production cloud environments. AWS and/or Azure experience preferred; GCP experience is acceptable
• Strong experience with SIEM operations, log onboarding, correlation rules, alert tuning, and investigative workflows
• Experience with cloud incident response, including evidence handling and root-cause analysis
• Working knowledge of cloud IAM, networking, encryption, key management, and secure service configurations
• Experience with vulnerability management tools and coordinating remediation across engineering teams
• Ability to write clear operational documentation and deliver concise, executive-ready status reporting
• Security-first technical leadership with decisive incident-command capabilities
• Strong prioritization and risk-based decision-making skills
• Ability to drive effective execution across technical and business teams
• Clear communication skills with both technical teams and senior stakeholders
• Continuous-improvement mindset focused on measurable outcomes
• Public Trust preferred
• Must pass pre-employment qualifications of Cherokee Federal