Role description
Infrastructure IT Project Manager
IT Infrastructure & Project Delivery - US North Carolina/South Carolina/East Coast
Engenious is looking for an experienced Infrastructure IT Project Manager on behalf of one of our clients. This is a long-term opportunity to lead and coordinate IT infrastructure projects in an enterprise environment. The initial contract term is two years, with the possibility of extension and longer-term cooperation. Candidates must currently be based in North Carolina, South Carolina, or another eligible location on the US East Coast.
Responsibilities
- Lead IT infrastructure projects from initiation and planning through implementation and delivery.
- Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, budgets, and resource allocation plans.
- Coordinate infrastructure engineers, IT operations teams, architects, security teams, business stakeholders, and external vendors.
- Manage project scope, risks, issues, dependencies, and change requests.
- Monitor project progress and proactively address delivery challenges.
- Facilitate project meetings, stakeholder updates, and project governance activities.
- Communicate project status, risks, and key decisions to technical teams and senior stakeholders.
- Coordinate infrastructure implementations, upgrades, migrations, and modernization initiatives.
- Manage vendor deliverables and third-party dependencies where applicable.
- Ensure appropriate documentation, project handover, and transition to IT operations.
Requirements
- Proven experience as an IT Project Manager or Infrastructure IT Project Manager.
- Demonstrated experience managing and delivering IT infrastructure projects in an enterprise environment.
- Good understanding of IT infrastructure concepts, including servers, networking, storage, data centers, cloud infrastructure, and infrastructure migrations.
- Experience managing project schedules, budgets, resources, risks, and dependencies.
- Ability to coordinate multiple technical teams and stakeholders.
- Strong communication, organizational, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience with project management methodologies, governance processes, and reporting tools.
- Professional fluency in English.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with infrastructure transformation, data center migrations, cloud adoption, or infrastructure modernization.
- Familiarity with AWS, Microsoft Azure, hybrid infrastructure, virtualization, networking, or enterprise storage.
- Experience working with external vendors and service providers.
- PMP, PRINCE2, or another recognized project management certification.
- Experience managing complex projects in large or distributed organizations.
What can you expect
- Team of passionate people who love what they do.
- Opportunity to learn and grow.
- Private Medical Care - INTER Polska.
- Co-funded Multisport Card.
- Possible training or certification subsidies.
- Daily rate: Up to $800 per day, depending on experience and qualifications.
- Initial contract term: 2 years.
- Extension: Possibility of continued long-term cooperation.