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Infrastructure Project Manager
Location: Suwanee, GA
- Suwanee, GA
- Posted 2 weeks ago
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage IT infrastructure projects from initiation through completion, ensuring delivery on time, within scope, and within budget
- Partner with systems engineering, network engineering, data center operations, and facilities teams to successfully deploy infrastructure into new and existing data center sites
- Facilitate technical discovery efforts and coordinate project requirements across technical and business stakeholders
- Develop and actively manage detailed project plans, schedules, milestones, resources, deliverables, dependencies, and timelines utilizing Waterfall project management methodologies
- Collaborate with engineering teams, contractors, and site personnel to support successful infrastructure deployments and site build activities
- Manage project scope, risks, issues, dependencies, and escalations while balancing business objectives and technical requirements
- Review proposed project changes and work with stakeholders to evaluate, approve, and implement beneficial modifications
- Provide regular project status reporting to senior leadership and executive stakeholders, including project health, risks, issues, and key milestones
- Support deployment and lifecycle management of core network, systems, and infrastructure assets across multiple data center locations
- Partner with general contractors, local contractors, and internal teams throughout data center construction and infrastructure implementation projects
- Ensure adherence to organizational project management standards, processes, and documentation requirements
- Continuously improve project management processes, operational procedures, and project documentation
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
- Coordinate activities between systems engineers, network engineers, data center technicians, facilities teams, contractors, and business stakeholders
- Manage multiple concurrent infrastructure projects within a fast paced, deadline driven environment
- Track project tasks, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and resource assignments to ensure successful execution
- Facilitate project meetings and maintain communication across technical and non-technical teams
- Support infrastructure deployment activities for new data center builds and expansion projects
- Work closely with engineering teams to understand technical requirements and ensure project objectives are clearly defined
- Monitor project risks, issues, and dependencies and drive timely resolution
- Coordinate activities involving networking, systems, connectivity, power, cooling, and facility infrastructure components
- Conduct project reviews and support site visits during critical phases of infrastructure deployment projects
- Maintain project documentation, status reports, meeting notes, and stakeholder communications
- Assist local site teams with infrastructure asset management and operational readiness activities
- Ensure project deliverables are completed according to established timelines and quality expectations
Preferred Experience and Attributes
- Experience managing IT infrastructure projects within enterprise environments
- Strong project management experience utilizing traditional Waterfall project management methodologies
- Experience managing infrastructure projects through defined project phases, milestones, dependencies, and change control processes
- Experience developing detailed project plans and managing project execution against established timelines and deliverables
- Strong understanding of networking, systems, and infrastructure technologies
- Experience working closely with systems engineering, network engineering, and infrastructure operations teams
- Knowledge of routers, switches, firewalls, server infrastructure, storage platforms, and virtualization technologies
- Understanding of data center environments including power, cooling, connectivity, and space considerations
- Experience supporting infrastructure deployments within data center environments
- Experience working on data center construction projects and partnering with contractors throughout project execution
- Ability to understand both IT infrastructure and facility systems including electrical and mechanical environments
- Experience managing multiple concurrent projects and competing priorities
- Strong communication, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
- Experience presenting project updates to senior leadership and executive stakeholders
- Strong organizational, time management, and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to operate effectively within a fast paced, cross functional matrixed environment
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Project Management, or related field, or equivalent professional experience
- Experience in IT, project management, service delivery, or customer relationship management
- PMP certification preferred
- ITIL certification preferred
- Experience with project management applications such as Microsoft Project or Clarity preferred
- Experience with Salesforce CRM preferred
- Experience managing customer migration projects preferred