IT Infrastructure Project Manager

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Job Summary

The IT Infrastructure Project Manager is responsible for the successful delivery of infrastructure-focused technology projects within the organization, managing and coordinating the full project lifecycle from initial analysis and requirement capture to deployment and transition into business-as-usual. This role specializes in delivering projects that span network, server, storage, cloud, and data center environments, ensuring that infrastructure changes are planned, governed, and executed with minimal disruption to operations.

The IT Infrastructure Project Manager is responsible for delivering an agreed scope on time and within budget, through driving value-based outcomes and managing risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies across infrastructure programs including cloud migrations, network upgrades, data center consolidations, and end-of-life hardware refreshes. The IT Infrastructure Project Manager will work with infrastructure engineering teams, third party suppliers and vendors, and managed service providers, and keep sponsors updated through robust governance and standard project reporting.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Project Management

• Deliver an agreed technology scope on time and within budget.
• Drive value-based outcomes through the full project lifecycle from initial analysis to post-deployment.
• Own (create and maintain) the project plan of key activities, outputs, and dependencies.
• Own the project financials (forecasting, budgeting) and resource plans.
• Identify and onboard resources required to deliver the project scope, oversee and coordinate day to day team activities aligned to the project plan

Project Governance and Communications

• Track and mitigate risks and issues, document and manage assumptions and dependencies, escalating where required.
• Effectively manage relationships with delivery teams, including 3rd parties where required.
• Manage expectations of sponsors and other stakeholders through timely, well-structured communications on progress and project health.
• Drive robust project governance, taking into consideration delivery, architecture, and change management requirements
• Establish the regular meeting cadence required to effectively manage and govern project delivery

Infrastructure Delivery

• Lead end-to-end delivery of infrastructure projects including network upgrades, server and storage refreshes, data center migrations, cloud adoption (IaaS/PaaS), and end-of-life hardware decommissions.
• Coordinate change windows, maintenance plans, and cutover strategies with infrastructure engineering, network operations, and business teams to minimize service disruption and downtime risk.
• Manage hardware and software procurement processes in partnership with vendors, procurement, and finance, ensuring timely delivery of equipment and licensing aligned to project milestones.
• Partner with IT Security and Compliance teams to ensure all infrastructure changes align with organizational security standards, regulatory requirements, and audit controls (e.g., SOX, ISO 27001).
• Maintain a clear understanding of infrastructure asset lifecycle, capacity plans, and technical debt to inform project sequencing, prioritization, and business case development.

Program/Project Management Community

• Actively participate in a program/project management community to share good practice and lessons learnt from a global and regional perspective as well as to hone skills and master core capabilities.
• Provide input and support to establish good practice project guidelines and a clear project framework to be adhered to by all programs and projects; continuously update with good practices.

People Management

• Indirectly lead, motivate, and develop team members so that their individual and collective performance is of the required standard and meets the current and future needs of the business. The project manager will have to influence with leadership behaviors without direct authority over the other team members.

Technical Competencies

• Risk management - Carry out risk management activities. Identify and assess risks and vulnerabilities, develop mitigation strategies and reports into the business while involving specialists and domain experts as necessary.
• Project management - Define, document and execute small to medium-scale projects using appropriate project management methods and tools. Provide effective leadership to the project team to ensure project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets.
• Portfolio, Program and project support - Support program or project control boards, project assurance teams and quality review meetings. Use and recommend project control solutions for planning, scheduling and tracking projects and provides basic guidance on project proposals.
• Requirements definition and management - Define and manage scoping, requirements definition and prioritization activities for initiatives of medium size and complexity by facilitating input from stakeholders, providing constructive challenge and enabling effective prioritization.
• Benefits management - Identify specific metrics and mechanisms to measure benefits and monitoring them against the business case.
• Relationship management - Implement stakeholder engagement/communications plan. Collect and use feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management. Develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships.
• Infrastructure knowledge - Demonstrate working knowledge of enterprise infrastructure domains including networking (LAN/WAN, SD-WAN, DNS/DHCP), server and storage platforms, virtualization and cloud services (Azure, AWS, GCP), and data center operations. Apply this knowledge to inform project scope, risk, and delivery planning.
• ITSM and change management - Apply IT Service Management principles (aligned to ITIL) to infrastructure projects. Manage change requests through formal change advisory processes, coordinate with operations teams on service impact, and ensure smooth transition to BAU support post-delivery.
• Vendor and contract management - Evaluate and manage infrastructure vendors, managed service providers, and OEMs. Assess statements of work, track SLA performance, and escalate delivery issues to ensure contractual obligations are met throughout the project lifecycle.

Other Competencies (Behavioral, Leadership)

• Strategic mindset - Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.
• Cultivates innovation - Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful.
• Drives results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Decision quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Balances stakeholders - Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.
• Drives engagement - Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives.
• Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Instills trust - Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
• Situational adaptability - Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education

• Bachelor's degree or higher in IT, Computer Science or Business Management (or equivalent and related experience preferred).
• PMP Required, SAFe CSM nice to have.
• ITIL Certification preferred

Experience

• Minimum 3-5 years of working experience as a Project Manager in the IT sector.
• Proven track record of successfully driving and delivering end-to-end complex scaled IT solutions/ projects or system implementations projects.
• Solid technical background, with understanding or hands-on experience in IT infrastructure design, deployment, and operations, including networking, cloud platforms, server/storage environments, and data center management.
• Experience of negotiation and working with project and process management.
• Experience in stakeholder management.
• Experience working with Microsoft Office suite (Project, Word, Excel) and familiarity with infrastructure project tooling such as ServiceNow, Jira, network diagramming tools and cloud management consoles
• Good planning and organization skills with key attention to budget and resource management.

Skills

• Demonstrable problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrable organizational skills.