Senior Project Manager - Microsoft Cloud Security | SC Cleared

Senior Project Manager - Microsoft Cloud Security | SC Cleared

Contract: 6 months

Rate: £500-£650 per day, Inside IR35

Location: Predominantly remote, with potential requirement for 1 day per week onsite for Privileged Access Workstation (PAW) / Secure Admin Workstation (SAW) activity

Security Clearance: Valid SC Clearance required

Programme: Highly confidential

The Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced, delivery-focused Senior Project Manager to support a complex Microsoft cloud security modernisation programme.

The programme covers Azure tenant rationalisation, Microsoft Sentinel, security remediation, SOC enablement and operational handover, with multiple Microsoft, partner and client workstreams operating concurrently.

You will take ownership of the integrated delivery plan, resources, dependencies, risks and reporting, ensuring technical teams remain aligned and key milestones are delivered successfully.

This is not a hands-on security engineering role. You do not need to be a Microsoft Sentinel or Defender SME. However, you will need sufficient experience across complex cybersecurity, cloud or infrastructure programmes to challenge delivery plans, identify risks and dependencies, and keep multiple technical teams moving.

Key Responsibilities

Own and maintain the integrated programme delivery plan

Coordinate Microsoft, partner and client resources across multiple technical workstreams

Manage dependencies across security, Azure, infrastructure, identity and SOC delivery

Own and maintain RAID, dependency, action and decision logs

Manage programme scope, change control, milestones and delivery risks

Lead delivery governance, reporting and the regular programme delivery cadence

Coordinate parallel remediation and delivery waves

Track testing, readiness and operational handover activities

Provide clear weekly status reporting, escalating programme-level risks and decisions where required

Work closely with Programme Managers, Architects, Security Leads and technical delivery teams

Hold multiple teams accountable for agreed actions, milestones and outcomes

Essential Experience

We are particularly interested in candidates with:

Strong Senior Project Management experience within complex cybersecurity, cloud or infrastructure transformation programmes

Proven experience delivering across multi-supplier, multi-team and multi-workstream technical environments

Strong programme planning and delivery-control capability

Excellent resource coordination and dependency management skills

Strong experience managing RAID, change control and delivery governance

Confidence working with senior stakeholders and challenging technical delivery plans where appropriate

Experience coordinating highly technical teams without needing to personally act as the technical SME

Experience operating within complex, governed client environments

Experience coordinating multi-supplier security programmes, technical dependencies and delivery within defined customer approval processes

Valid SC Clearance

Desirable Technical Knowledge

An understanding of some or all of the following would be beneficial:

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Defender

Microsoft Entra ID / Microsoft 365

SIEM and SOC environments

Cloud security remediation

Azure tenant rationalisation

Security data ingestion and detection engineering

SOAR / Logic Apps and security automation

Service transition and operational handoverHands-on Microsoft Sentinel or Defender engineering experience is not required

Benefits

Inside IR35