Senior Information Technology Project Manager

About the Role

Since 1958, DARPA has made pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security. As the world changes dramatically – and even the pace of change itself increases – the agency seeks to engage the best minds and best ideas across specialties, communities, and disciplines to solve the greatest national security challenges on the horizon. DARPA brings together scientists, engineers, and tinkerers across the innovation ecosystem to push the bounds of technological possibility. The work we do is challenging by nature, but working with DARPA doesn’t have to be.

To make it happen, DARPA's program managers need highly skilled support contractors, broadly referred to as SETAs (Scientific Engineering and Technical Assistance) within DARPA. Often spanning programs, portfolios, and even offices in their impact, the SETAs help program managers chart and navigate the path toward groundbreaking discoveries. For the fortunate few who become part of the DARPA legacy, a time bound journey with the organization represents a unique and singular opportunity to alter the future. At DARPA, every day is a chance to make history. A chance to explore, discover, and invent. A chance to collaborate with pioneers in science and engineering contributing to an enduring mission.

Mission Summary

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.

Twenty8Tech (A Redhawk Company) has an immediate opening for a hybrid (telework/office) 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 DoD 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

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• 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.