This is a remote position.
Brief Job Description
· Manage large scale IT infrastructure projects, responsible for all aspects of project execution from initiation through close, following (and promoting) project management best practices, SDLC and other applicable PGE and regulatory requirements.
· Utilize technical, business, and personal skills to direct staff and solve complex issues and produce results with limited oversight. **from official JD - Project Management - Takes full responsibility for the definition, approach, facilitation, and satisfactory completion of medium-scale projects (typically with direct business impact and firm deadlines).
· Identifies, assesses, and manages risks to the success of the project. Ensures that realistic project plans are maintained and ensures regular and accurate communication to stakeholders, consistent with the methods in use. (Agile, waterfall, etc.) Ensures quality reviews occur on schedule and according to procedure.
· Manages the change control procedure and ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets and are signed off.
· Provides effective leadership to the project team and takes appropriate action were team performance deviates from agreed tolerances.
Project Details
• Network ‘Fitness’ areas; significant hardware and software replacement effort underway for a number of our network security/firewall systems.
• Team: 10 people, project teams from 5 to 20
Requirements
• bachelor’s degree, PMP preferred, scrum/agile a plus.
• 6-8 years of experience.
Technical program and project management, knowledge of Agile/scrum (more PM, less scrum master), excellent written and verbal communication as well as presentation skills. Ability to lead diverse teams with contributors ranging from entry level to principal engineers and architects. Experience with large scale technical infrastructure implementations both on-premises and in the cloud. Experience with Palo Alto, preferably with global protect rollout and application segmentation.