Product Manager Zero Trust

Techstra is seeking an experienced Zero Trust Product Manager with a minimum of 5 years experience.

The Product Manager – Zero Trust Management is to lead the strategy, delivery, and lifecycle management of our internal Zero Trust service offerings. This role focuses on internal customers across the enterprise, ensuring secure, efficient, and compliant access to systems and data through Zero Trust principles.

The Product Manager will also serve as a Scrum Master, guiding agile ceremonies and ensuring successful delivery of Zero Trust–related initiatives and projects. This position requires expertise across certificate management, key management, privileged access/jump services, and secure connectivity.

Here is a look at some of the expectations and responsibilities for this position:    

Key Responsibilities:

Product Management (Internal Zero Trust Services):

• Define and maintain the product vision, roadmap, and backlog for Zero Trust management services.

• Partner with security, IT infrastructure, and business teams to gather and prioritize requirements.

• Ensure Zero Trust services align with enterprise security strategy, compliance mandates, and regulatory requirements.

• Measure and report on adoption, effectiveness, and overall value of Zero Trust initiatives.

Scrum Master Responsibilities:

• Facilitate agile ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, reviews).

• Remove delivery impediments while fostering collaboration and continuous improvement.

• Track team progress using tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar.

• Coach team members and stakeholders on Agile/Scrum best practices.

Zero Trust Resource & Delivery:

• Oversee certificate lifecycle management (issuance, renewal, revocation) and ensure secure PKI practices.

• Manage key management systems (encryption keys, HSMs, secure key storage, rotation, and auditing).

• Govern jump/privileged access services to control and monitor administrative access to sensitive systems.

• Drive Zero Trust adoption across cloud and on-prem environments (MFA, least privilege, micro segmentation, continuous validation).

• Manage Zero Trust platform integrations with IAM, endpoint security, and network security solutions.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field (or equivalent experience).

• 5+ years of experience in product management, IT security service management, or Zero Trust operations.

• Strong knowledge of Zero Trust principles, PKI, certificate management, and key management systems.

• Familiarity with privileged access management (jump services, session monitoring, PAM tools such as CyberArk or BeyondTrust).

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM, PSM I, or equivalent).

• Strong understanding of regulatory and compliance requirements (SOX, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI-DSS).

• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

Preferred:

• Security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect, GIAC certifications).

• Experience with certificate/key management platforms (Venafi, HashiCorp Vault, DigiCert, Azure Key Vault, AWS KMS).

• Hands-on experience implementing Zero Trust solutions across hybrid environments.

• Prior experience in managing internal security platforms as products.

Location: This role can be remote or onsite Chicago

At Techstra Solutions, we help top companies and brands achieve the business value of Digital and Talent Transformation. We believe there are three components in successful business transformation: Business Strategy, Technology, and Talent. It is the coming together of these three disciplines that enables companies to take full advantage of opportunities. It differentiates us. Our approach is holistic and all encompassing. We consider the full picture as we guide our clients on this journey.    

We are experts in transformation, business strategy, technology, innovation, and human capital management. We deliver our expertise through client consulting, innovative staffing solutions, and software development. From strategy through implementation, we are dedicated to bringing our clients world-class business and talent solutions that fit strategic requirements and, most importantly, deliver results.    

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Techstra Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. The Company makes its decisions on merit, and its policy of equal opportunity prohibits discrimination in all phases of the employment process, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, promotion, selection, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, compensation, benefits, and other terms and conditions of employment. The policy of equal opportunity applies without regard to race, color, creed, religion, gender,, sexual orientation, gender identification, pregnancy, marital status, national origin, ancestry, age, disability that can reasonably be accommodated without undue hardship, military status, veteran status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, alienage or citizenship, domestic partnership status, arrest or conviction record, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other protected categories under federal, state, or local law. The Company also prohibits discrimination or harassment based upon the perception that a person has, or is associated with a person who has, any of these characteristics.