About this role
Title: Technical Project Manager – Security Network Engineering
Location: Dublin City Centre (onsite 5 days a week)
Type: Permanent
A senior Technical Project Manager responsible for delivering complex security and network infrastructure projects within a global technology and security organisation. The role is hands-on from a project perspective, requiring someone who can manage engineers, vendors and senior stakeholders while understanding the underlying technology and operational risks. Projects will cover areas such as firewalls, VPN/remote access, identity and authentication, web security, SIEM/EDR and security tooling. Many projects will be global in scope and involve changes to business-critical production environments.
THIS IS A SENIOR PERMANENT PROJECT MANAGER ROLE. YOU WILL IDEALLY BE COMING FROM A SECURITY OR NETWORK RELATED BACKGROUND
Key Responsibilities
- Manage security infrastructure projects end-to-end, from requirements and design through implementation, migration and handover.
- Build detailed project plans covering milestones, dependencies, resources, risks, testing, change windows and rollback plans.
- Coordinate Security, Network, Windows/Linux, Operations, Service Desk, vendors and business teams across different regions.
- Own the production change process, including impact assessments, testing, approvals, communications and post-change validation.
- Run technical and design meetings, challenging assumptions, decisions and risks where required.
- Manage vendors, professional services, licensing and platform upgrades/replacements.
- Identify and resolve risks, blockers and dependencies early.
- Track audit, regulatory and security commitments, including DORA-related requirements.
- Provide clear reporting to technical and senior management, translating technical issues into business impact and risk.
- Improve project governance, documentation and delivery processes.
Technical Knowledge Required
- The candidate does not need to configure the technology but must understand it sufficiently to challenge engineers and recognise technical and operational risks.
- Key areas include:
- Firewalls: policies, segmentation, NAT, HA, upgrades and IPsec VPNs.
- Remote Access: VPN, SSL VPN, RDP gateways, certificates and conditional access.
- Identity: MFA, RADIUS, SAML/OIDC, AD, Entra ID, PKI and FIDO2.
- Web Security: proxies, URL filtering, SSL inspection and internet connectivity.
- Security Operations: SIEM, EDR, vulnerability management and incident response.
- Networking: TCP/IP, routing, DNS, VLANs and multicast, particularly in low-latency environments.
- Security Frameworks: NIST, ISO 27001, CIS Controls and DORA.
Experience Required
- 8+ years managing technical infrastructure or engineering projects.
- At least 4 years in security, network or identity projects.
- Experience delivering a major security platform replacement or migration in a live production environment.
- Strong experience with production change management, including testing, maintenance windows and rollback planning.
- Experience managing multiple technical teams, vendors and international stakeholders.
- Comfortable working directly with security/network engineers and Risk, Audit and Compliance teams.
- Experience within financial services, trading technology or another highly regulated, low-downtime environment is preferred.
- Previous experience as a Security or Network Engineer is a strong advantage.
- Certifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, CISSP, CISM, Security+, PCNSA or CCNP Security are beneficial but not essential.