✨ Our 2026 Hiring Report is out — see what 146,050 job postings say about getting hired.

Read the report →
JOB DETAILS

Project Manager

CompanyLeidos
LocationAlice Springs
Work ModeOn Site
PostedSeptember 23, 2026
About The Company
Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government & commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $17.2 billion for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2026. Leidos was cited for the meaningful work employees perform that is challenging, impactful, and aligned with our customers’ missions as reasons professionals want to work and stay at our company. Leidos has also been named to lists including Forbes’ Best Employers for Diversity, Forbes’ America’s Best Employers for Women, Military Times Best for Vets Employers, and Ethisphere Institute’s World's Most Ethical Companies®. Employees enjoy career enrichment opportunities available through mobility and development and experience rewarding relationships with supportive supervisors and talented colleagues and customers. Employees appreciate our flexible work environment, allowing for and encouraging a true work-life balance. Our professionals are also excited about our Employee Resource Groups, like the Collaborative Outreach with Remote and Embedded Employees (CORE), which strives to create an environment where every employee, regardless of location, feels fully engaged as a valued employee of Leidos. Your most important work is ahead, visit careers.leidos.com for our latest opportunities.
About the Role

The Digital Modernization Sector at Leidos is seeking a Project Manager to support the program's service processes, projects and procedures. The Project Manager is the focal point on service planning and performance coordination with other enterprise IT service providers and with the appropriate stakeholders to determine service specific changes needed throughout the life of the Service via Service Fulfillment, and execution of Network Connectivity Service requests. This position works closely with program Site Lead, program leadership, customer leadership, and representatives of other IT service providers under the customer’s IT ecosystem.

The job duties of the Project Manager (SBL) are as follows:                                                                                                    

  • Go-to person on site on behalf of the program for communication behind Program SBLs, Project Managers who act as the final point of contact, ensuring that any complicated endeavors during system development/implementation are solved immediately.
  • Ensure all engineering and operation systems work together, from managing business and management aspects to making sure each part is engineered correctly to meet functional and technical requirements taking into consideration customer requirements.
  • Identify and coordinate with all stakeholders to communicate and resolve problems within specific projects and service offerings (people, process and/or technology) as they are identified.
  • Support and lead cross-functional team/s to drive shared accountability, and mutual commitment to program delivery and objectives for Network Connectivity Service requests and program projects.
  • Serve as the contact for program information, manage key relationships and host reviews for site and enterprise projects.
  • Support and establish standards for performance and measuring progress towards goals.
  • Ensure that timely and accurate milestone reviews and routine reports are conducted on assigned projects. Use these tools to expose risks and issues and develop action plans to mitigate risks and resolve issues.
  • Lead escalations and communication on program status and issues to associates in technical, non-technical, and executive leadership functions.
  • Understand and implement service area long-term strategy as it applies to the program alongside of the program defined network service area SBLs and program leadership.

Basic Requirements

  • TS SCI with current Poly to be considered
  • Candidate must have 16 years of experience that can be a combination of work history and education. This equates to a Doctorate and 8 years, master’s and 10 years, bachelor’s and 12 years, associates and 14 years or HS diploma and 16 years.
  • Excellent communication, personal and governance skills, allowing them to resolve problems and manage projects from the beginning until completion with exceptional efficiency.
  • Qualified candidates will have a background in IT, computer systems engineering, systems engineering and analysis, or project management.
  • Thrive within a highly dynamic and changing environment while adapting and managing shifting customer priorities.
  • Experience with service or product management.
  • Exceptional organizational and critical thinking skills
  • Experience with stakeholder management

Desired qualifications:

  • Expertise within a defined network service area. Such expertise would include network engineering, network security or network monitoring.
  • Demonstrated expert ability to effectively work with senior and executive level government staff.
  • Project Management experience

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Key Skills
Project managementStakeholder managementNetwork connectivitySystems engineeringIT service managementRisk mitigationCommunicationGovernanceCritical thinkingNetwork engineeringNetwork securityNetwork monitoringCross-functional leadershipTechnical reportingStrategic planning
Categories
TechnologyManagement & LeadershipEngineeringGovernment & Public SectorSecurity & Safety
Job Information
📋Core Responsibilities
The Project Manager serves as the primary point of contact for service planning, performance coordination, and the execution of network connectivity service requests. They lead cross-functional teams to resolve complex system development issues while ensuring alignment with functional, technical, and customer requirements.
📋Job Type
full time
📊Experience Level
10+
💼Company Size
37491
📊Visa Sponsorship
No
💼Language
English
🏢Working Hours
40 hours
Apply Now →

You'll be redirected to
the company's application page