Senior Technical Program Manager, Security & IT

Radiant Nuclear

$120K — $145K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years in technical program or project management, focusing on infrastructure and security programs.
  • Experience in delivering IT infrastructure for new construction and facility buildouts.
  • Ability to read construction schedules and coordinate with facilities project managers and contractors.
  • Hands-on experience in administering Atlassian tools, creating Jira projects and Confluence spaces.
  • Capability to engage in architecture reviews and produce relevant technical diagrams and documentation.
  • Experience in regulated environments such as nuclear, defense, or life sciences.
  • Proven ability to drive accountability and influence teams without direct authority.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain a system to track IT and security programs across various tools and formats.
  • Manage the operating cadence of status meetings and cross-functional reviews, setting agendas and driving decisions.
  • Maintain integrated schedules, identifying risks and milestones across multiple concurrent programs.
  • Coordinate IT scope with construction to ensure all necessary infrastructure is planned appropriately.
  • Support compliance with CMMC and NIST SP 800-171, tracking remediation and assessor coordination.
  • Create technical documentation, including network diagrams and executive summaries.
  • Escalate any commitments slipping or unresolved issues to senior leadership promptly.

Benefits

  • Substantial incentive stock plan for all full-time employees.
  • 100% medical coverage up to base silver level for employee and 50% for dependents, with options for platinum plans.
  • Sponsored One Medical memberships for employees and dependents.
  • Comprehensive top-tier vision and dental plan coverage, with additional orthodontia benefits for dependents.
  • Voluntary life, accident, and health benefits available for employee contribution.
  • 8 weeks of paid parental leave and additional pregnancy leave for California employees.
  • Daily catered lunches and free snacks, fostering a collaborative environment.
  • Flexible PTO policy with remote workday allocations, enhancing work-life balance.
  • Engagement in company events and a scenic headquarters close to the Pacific Ocean.
Full Job Description
About the Role

Radiant is seeking a talented Technical Program Manager, IT & Security, to own visibility and delivery across our IT and security program portfolio. You will track eight concurrent programs spanning three states: a reactor program at Idaho National Laboratory; a fuel facility and manufacturing plant in Tennessee; warehouse and office buildouts in Los Angeles; a site decommissioning; and a CMMC and NIST SP 800-171 compliance program running across all of it.

We have strong technical leaders on each effort. What we don't have is one person who can see the whole portfolio at once, keep it visible, and ensure teams meet commitments. In this role, you won't write the SSP or design the network. You'll make sure the people doing that work are aligned, unblocked, and delivering against a schedule everyone can see. You'll represent IT leadership in meetings we can't attend, and you'll be the reason nothing quietly slips.

Responsibilities & Duties
  • Build the system of record for how IT and security programs are tracked at Radiant, standing up the tooling, cadence, and reporting that today lives across spreadsheets, inboxes, and people's heads.
  • Own the operating cadence, including recurring status meetings within IT and security and cross-functional reviews with facilities, construction, engineering, and external partners; set agendas, drive to decisions, capture actions, and follow up.
  • Maintain integrated schedules, dependencies, risks, and milestones across concurrent programs; know what's on track, what's at risk, and what needs escalation before anyone asks.
  • Keep IT scope sequenced with construction, partnering with the facilities project manager to ensure structured cabling, MDF/IDF, low-voltage, access control, cameras, wireless, and carrier circuits are planned into general contractor milestones rather than retrofitted after drywall.
  • Support the CMMC and NIST SP 800-171 compliance program alongside executives, tracking milestone plans, POA&M status, remediation coordination, evidence collection, and assessor coordination while technical control decisions remain with the security team.
  • Produce technical and network diagrams, architecture documentation, project charters, status reporting, and executive summaries.
  • Escalate slipping commitments and unresolved blockers to the VP of IT and VP of Cybersecurity early enough to act on them.


Required Qualifications & Skills
  • 6+ years in technical program or project management, including infrastructure and security programs.
  • Experience delivering IT infrastructure into new construction or facility buildouts, manufacturing, industrial, healthcare, or multi-site commercial.
  • Ability to read a construction schedule, work with a facilities PM and general contractor, and know when the window for IT work opens and closes.
  • Hands-on experience administering and structuring work in Atlassian tooling, building Jira projects, workflows, dashboards, and Confluence spaces that teams actually adopted.
  • Ability to hold your own in an architecture review: read and produce network diagrams, understand infrastructure and security concepts, and ask the right questions of engineers without needing translation.
  • Experience in a regulated environment, nuclear, defense, aerospace, life sciences, or similar, including work under compliance frameworks.
  • Track record of driving accountability without direct authority, through influence, clear artifacts, and disciplined follow-through.
  • Strong written communication, documentation that engineers respect and executives can act on.


Desired Qualifications & Skills
  • Familiarity with CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, or FedRAMP.
  • Experience in DOE, a national laboratory, or ITAR-controlled environments.
  • Exposure to OT and IT convergence in manufacturing or plant settings.
  • Site decommissioning or IT asset disposition experience.
  • PMP or equivalent formal project management training.


Additional Requirements
  • Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as necessary to accomplish our mission.
  • Must work 100% onsite at Radiant's El Segundo HQ.
  • Travel up to 15%, heavier during site activation windows.
Benefits and Perks
  • Stock: Substantial incentive stock plan for all full-time employees.
  • Medical: 100% up to base silver level plan for employee + 50% dependents, offers up to Platinum plans.
  • One Medical: Sponsored memberships for employees and their dependents.
  • Vision: 100% top tier plan coverage + 50% for dependents.
  • Dental: 100% top tier plan coverage, orthodontia extra, 50% for dependents.
  • Voluntary life, accident, hospital, critical illness, commuter and FSA/HSA are offered as employee contributed benefits.
  • 8-weeks of paid parental leave for all parents. Additional paid pregnancy leave for CA employees.
  • Daily catered lunch. Free snacks and drinks.
  • Flexible PTO policy. Remote workday allocation.
  • Company and team-bonding events, happy hours and in-person camaraderie.
  • Beautiful El Segundo headquarters close to the Pacific Ocean.


Total Compensation and Benefits
Radiant compensates people for impact and invests in those who continue to raise the bar. Radiant's new hire compensation package includes base salary, substantial equity grants, and comprehensive health benefits. Total compensation and level are determined through a rigorous evaluation of interview performance, experience, education, and qualifications, and are designed to support continued growth as scope, responsibility, and impact expand at Radiant.

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