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Manassas, VAJob$84–169K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
Microsoft’s Cloud Operations & Innovation team seeks a Datacenter Project Manager for its U.S. Government Airgap team. The role delivers infrastructure and foundational technologies for dedicated government online services, managing end-to-end project plans and coordinating stakeholders, customers, and teams. The successful candidate must hold an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance and be able to meet applicable security screening requirements.
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Overview
Microsoft’s Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) is the engine that powers our cloud services. As a Datacenter Project Manager (DCPM) on the U.S. Government Airgap team, you will perform a key role in delivering the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft’s dedicated online services supporting the U.S. Government.
While our U.S. Government dedicated datacenter operations team has a sharp focus on serving our U.S. Government customers and helping them achieve federal missions, together, all of Microsoft’s Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than 100 datacenters and 1 million servers. Our foundation is built upon and managed by a team of subject matter experts working to support services for more than 1 billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 90 countries worldwide.
With environmental sustainability and optimization at the forefront of our datacenter design and operations, we continue to grow and evolve as we meet the ever-changing business demands that hold Microsoft as a world-class Cloud provider.
Be at the forefront of the action in CO+I as part of our global datacenter operations team.
At Microsoft, our mission—to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more—guides how we partner with customers to deliver trusted, impactful solutions. With a growth mindset culture, we innovate responsibly and measure success by shared progress—people, teams, and customers. Join us to do meaningful work that changes the world and helps shape what’s next for everyone.
Responsibilities
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Empower a culture of safety, security, and compliance in all aspect of datacenter activities
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Establish and enhance relevant working relationships with customers
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Create and manage end-to-end project plans and ensure on time delivery
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Plan, manage, and communicate end-to-end project plans with stakeholders and teams
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Perform day to day project check-in and update to manage project delivery and quality
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Identify risks, gaps, and opportunities and communicate to stakeholders and other teams to drive resolution
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Gather and provide feedback on lessons learned, well-aligned practices, and innovations on process/procedures and tools to improve efficiencies and productivity
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Be part of a mobilization team that supports deployments and break/fix activities at datacenter locations experiencing high work volumes
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Learn, live, and coach the One Microsoft culture and values. Lead through change by bringing clarity, generating energy, and delivering success
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
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High School Qualification or equivalent AND 2+ years experience supporting IT equipment or related technology or delivering server and network deployment projects in large-scale environments
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OR equivalent experience
Other Requirements:
- Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.• Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain
Preferred/Additional Qualifications:
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Technical College degree or certification in Computer Science, Math, Telecommunications, or equivalent work experience
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Strong working knowledge of physical IT infrastructures (e.g. Servers, SANs, Networking, etc.)
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Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a dynamic and high-pressure environment
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Perform and execute organization’s safety programs and policies, and compliance knowledge assessments
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Ability to support frequent standing, walking, lifting, and working at heights
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Willingness to work flexible hours, non-business hours, or other scenarios required by the flow of operations
Data Center Operations Management IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $84,400 - $168,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $118,800 - $186,600 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations. (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html)
How this job compares
Set against the 22,880 open Project Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$84–169K/yr
- Virginia median$116–178K/yr772 salary ranges
- US median$108–172K/yr14,379 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $127K, is 14% below the Virginia median midpoint ($148K) — in the middle half of Project Manager salary ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,065 open Project Manager jobs in Virginia and 22,880 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Project Manager postings that state a minimum ask for (median 6 years, across 19,733 postings).
- Education
- 11,958 of the 22,880 open Project Manager jobs (52%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 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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