Infrastructure Project Manager

Version 1 has celebrated over 28 years in Technology Services and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver solutions that drive customer success. Our expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly changing Digital-First world we live in. We foster strong partnerships with leading technology giants including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

We’re an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of Version 1 and what we do:

• UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
• 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
• 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
• Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
• Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW

We are looking for an experienced Technical Project Manager to join our team. In this role the Project Manager will be providing project management support to our client's team covering all aspects of managing and delivering various projects across the department and across functions and segments.

As the Project Manager you will be involved with the requirements gathering, planning, project governance, project interdependence affecting the project/s, project benefits realisation, project resources, project budget, communication, and measurement.

Responsibilities:

• Working closely with business partners develop and manage the implementation of the project plans
• Provide structure, control, reporting, communication, RAID management.
• Maintain upstream/downstream impacts of IT projects or Networks projects, diligently.
• Manage, Socialise and get buy into the required Project Governance to ensure that Project management procedures are adhered to within a formal governance structure.
• Maintain the Project Plan, exercising formal change control when appropriate, to ensure that the agreed Project timescales are adhered to.
• Identify, communicate and manage problems, risks and issues which may affect the successful delivery of the Project
• Direct the work of all Work-stream leaders that are delivering operational work-streams within the project to ensure the Project delivers on time, to budget and project interdependencies are identified and actively managed.
• Develop relationships with key stakeholders across the business, this could be internal or external
• Produce weekly, monthly & quarterly programme updates/dashboards showing performance against plan, meaningful insights and remedial actions to address any underperforming areas

Things we desire:

• 5+ years’ experience as a Project Manager
• Working knowledge of both Agile and Waterfall Methodologies
• Experience managing large infrastructure projects including data center builds, data center migrations, decommissioning projects, database migration, server builds and storage projects
• Solid understanding of core infrastructure concepts and ability to converse with technical resources on topics such as Networking, Virtualisation, Storage, Microservices, Cloud, DevOps etc.
• Stakeholder engagement experience
• In-depth review of customer collateral
• Review of operations procedures

Things we admire:

• 3rd level qualification in relevant field or similar
• Ability to manage multiple projects with multiple stakeholders
• PRINCE 2, PMP or other Project Management certification
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

Why Version 1?

At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits.
• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme.
• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance.
• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme.
• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies.
• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat.
• Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call-Out’ platform.
• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.

And many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.

Ekta Bahl - Talent Acquisition Capability Partner

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