Senior Project Manager - Microsoft Cloud Security | SC Cleared in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

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.

• 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

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

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 handover

Hands-on Microsoft Sentinel or Defender engineering experience is not required.