W2 contract || Technical Project Manager, Zscaler ZPA & Zero Trust

Job Title: Technical Project Manager, Zscaler ZPA & Zero Trust

Job Duration: 6+ months

Minimum years of experience required: 8+ years

Type of Hire: w2 contract

JOB DETAILS:

Lead the enterprise rollout of Zscaler Private Access (ZPA) and related cross-organizational initiatives. The role requires a technically credible project manager who can coordinate security, networking, endpoint, identity, application, and business stakeholders while maintaining delivery discipline across a complex zero-trust program.

Key Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end delivery plan for the enterprise ZPA rollout, including scope, milestones, dependencies, resources, risks, and acceptance criteria.

Coordinate discovery, application segmentation, connector readiness, identity integration, pilot, deployment waves, validation, and operational handover.

Partner with security, network, identity, endpoint, application, infrastructure, service desk, and change-management teams.

Maintain integrated project schedules, RAID logs, decision registers, action trackers, and executive status reporting.

Drive technical working sessions, dependency resolution, change approvals, cutover readiness, and post-implementation stabilization.

Ensure user-impact, adoption, communications, support readiness, documentation, and rollback considerations are addressed.

Escalate delivery risks promptly and facilitate decisions across teams with competing priorities.

Required Skills and Experience

5+ years of technical project or program management experience in enterprise infrastructure or cybersecurity environments.

Demonstrated experience delivering zero-trust, secure-access, VPN replacement, SASE, or comparable security transformation programs.

Working knowledge of Zscaler ZPA concepts, identity-based access, application segmentation, connectors, policies, and access validation.

Strong understanding of enterprise networking, authentication, identity, endpoints, applications, and change-management dependencies.

Proficiency with project plans, Jira, Confluence, RAID management, executive reporting, and cross-functional governance.

Excellent written and verbal communication with both engineering teams and senior stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

Networking background or experience coordinating network-security implementations.

Experience with phased global deployments and user migration programs.

PMP, CSM, SAFe, or equivalent project-management certification.

Experience working with distributed teams across US time zones.

Critical Competencies

Zero-Trust Delivery

Technical Credibility

Cross-Team Leadership

Risk Management

Executive Reporting

Decision Facilitation

Change Readiness

Customer Focus

Success Measures

ZPA rollout milestones are completed with clear readiness and acceptance criteria.

Security, networking, identity, endpoint, and application dependencies are actively managed.

Risks, decisions, user impacts, and operational handover are visible and controlled.