Technical Project Manager, Zscaler ZPA & Zero Trust

Role : Technical Project Manager, Zscaler ZPA & Zero Trust

Remote

Contract

JD:

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.