Project Manager

Project Overview

The Project Manager will be heavily involved in the planning, execution, and oversight of infrastructure projects. This position involves meticulous coordination of project teams, ensuring timely and budget-conscious project delivery, and adeptly managing stakeholder expectations. Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, vendors, and stakeholders, the Project Manager is instrumental in driving successful project outcomes. The ideal candidate will possess a strong technical background and extensive experience in IT project management, particularly in infrastructure-related initiatives.

Job Functions & Responsibilities

• Focus on the planning, execution, and delivery of infrastructure projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and meet the required quality standards.

• Develop project budgets and track expenditures to ensure cost-effectiveness.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project scope, objectives, and deliverables, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and strategic initiatives.

• Develop detailed project plans, schedules, and budgets, identifying necessary resources, milestones, and KPIs to track project progress and success.

• Proactively identify potential risks, issues, and dependencies and develop mitigation strategies to minimize their impact on project timelines and deliverables.

• Effectively communicate project status, risks, and successes to stakeholders, providing regular updates and conducting project reviews as needed.

• Foster strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including vendors, contractors, and technical teams, ensuring clear communication and collaboration throughout the project lifecycle.

• Engage in regular communication with project stakeholders, providing transparent updates, soliciting feedback, and effectively managing expectations.

• Ensure projects follow established IT governance frameworks and collaborate with teams on timely completion of governance requirements and expectations.

Skills

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in IT project management, with a focus on infrastructure projects.

• Strong technical background and understanding of infrastructure technologies, including network infrastructure, servers, storage, virtualization, cloud services, and security.

• Proven track record of successfully delivering complex infrastructure projects on time and within budget.

• Demonstrated expertise in infrastructure design and planning, server and operating systems management, network infrastructure and protocols, network virtualization, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, network security, monitoring and performance optimization, and vendor management.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities, with the capacity to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to analyze complex situations, identify solutions, and drive successful outcomes.

• Experience with project management methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall, and project management tools such as MS Project and Azure DevOps.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously.

• Thorough understanding of project management phases and techniques, including Initiation, Planning, Execution & Control, and Closure.

• Strong project management skills, including customer satisfaction management, sponsor expectation management, vendor and consultant management, risk management and issue resolution, financial management including budgeting, forecasting and reporting, and change management.

• Ability to work cross-functionally to solve problems and implement changes, analyze decisions and actions for their support of the larger area's strategic direction, and work with senior management to resolve complex problems.

• Understanding of SDLC and other life cycles for the deployment of infrastructure, networking, and other non-software projects.

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.

• PMP certification is desired.

• Other desired certifications may include ITIL, CompTIA Network+, Cisco, or AWS.