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Hardware Security Manager

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Springfield, VAJob$100–140K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$100–140K/yr
Location
Springfield, VA
Work Authorization
US work authorization required

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

TS/SCI clearance

Job overview

The Hardware Security Manager oversees the Department of State Diplomatic Technology Supply Chain Management team, supervising SAIC and subcontractor resources. The role manages program costs, schedules, staffing, and contract compliance while coordinating engineering activities and communicating with government customers and SAIC leadership. It also evaluates performance, assesses risks, and recommends changes affecting the team.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Team ManagementManagement DiscussionsContract DiscussionsProgram Issue EscalationIndependent JudgmentOral CommunicationWritten CommunicationSelf-MotivationProfessional DemeanorAccountabilityITIL FoundationsPMPRisk ManagementEarned Value Management

Qualifications

Bachelor's+6, Master's+4 or 10 YearsUS CitizenshipActive Top Secret ClearanceAbility to Obtain TS/SCI

Full job description

Description

The Hardware Security Manager is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the Department of State Diplomatic Technology Supply Chain Management (SCM) team. The manager will be responsible for supervising a team of SAIC and subcontractor resources. The lead shall be responsible for resource management and project management expertise to drive SCM projects. The lead shall be responsible for managing SCM program costs and schedules and ensuring contract compliance. The manager shall be capable of integrating the planning and leading of engineering activities to include the testing, implementation, and maintenance of IT solutions. The lead shall be able to communicate and coordinate all SCM related work to the Government customer and SAIC Senior Management. The manager shall be capable of evaluating performance results, performing risk assessments, and recommending changes impacting the SCM team.

Description of Duties:

  • Perform as the primary customer interface for technical and business matters, information sharing, and basic problem resolution

  • Serve as initial point of contact for engagement with customers to identify their Information Communication Technology projects

  • Coordinates with SCM contracting team to ensure customer requirements are met

  • Provide budget and schedule management support, expertise, and guidance to Government customer and contractor supervisors

  • Takes lead with all logistics surrounding customer engagements including coordinating, leading and documenting meetings; additionally track after action items

  • Escalate issues, risks, and concerns if any task may not meet agreed upon schedule

  • Track and report on task completion to SCM Government Program Management

  • Manage risk, customer relationships, and program staffing.

  • Ensure compliance with quality standards and escalate challenges to leadership.

  • Support business development and program staff management.

Qualifications

Required Education & Experience:

  • Bachelors and 6 years or more of related experience; masters and 4 years; or 10 years of directly related experience. Compensation will be commensurate with education and experience.

  • Experience managing mixed team including direct labor, subcontractors and suppliers.

  • Ability to conduct management and contract discussions.

  • Use standard, well-defined processes, procedures, techniques, or tools.

  • Ability to escalate program issues to senior management for assistance.

  • Provide input to corporate activities including performance reviews, compensation-related actions, and staffing and hiring recommendations. Raise personnel issues to appropriate internal support elements.

  • Ability to act independently while routinely being reviewed for soundness of judgment and overall quality and content.

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.

  • Self-motivation, professional demeanor and accountability.

Required Clearance:

  • US Citizenship.

  • Active top secret clearance with the ability to obtain TS/SCI.

Desired Experience/Skills/Attributes:

  • ITIL Foundations Certification

  • PMP Certification

  • Risk Management

  • Earned Value Management

Target salary range: $100,001 - $140,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

REQNUMBER: 2618798

SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability

How this job compares

Set against the 11,214 open Program Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$100–140K/yr
  • Virginia median$131–200K/yr434 salary ranges
  • US median$121–202K/yr8,745 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $120K, is 28% below the Virginia median midpoint ($166K) — in the lowest quarter of Program Manager salary ranges in Virginia.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 559 open Program Manager jobs in Virginia and 11,214 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Virginia
Experience
This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience — less than three in four Program Manager postings that state a minimum ask for (median 6 years, across 9,590 postings).
Education
4,738 of the 11,214 open Program Manager jobs (42%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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