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English is required · C1 level
Description
A Project Manager is sought to lead infrastructure and IT operations projects for enterprise clients in Western Europe, mainly managed service providers and financial institutions. Projects cover operations and patch management automation, observability, private cloud builds and VMware exit, both on premises and in public cloud. The role owns delivery across scope, schedule, budget and quality, steers the project team together with the solution architect and technical leads, and hands delivered environments over to managed service operation.
Responsibilities
Own delivery of assigned infrastructure and IT operations projects, including scope, schedule, budget and quality
Maintain the project plan, responsibility matrix, risk register and reporting to client and internal stakeholders
Control scope against the statement of work, identify change, prepare change requests and assess commercial and schedule impact
Steer the project team together with the solution architect and technical leads, and manage team capacity
Run steering committees and status reviews, escalate decisions and manage client expectations
Coordinate delivery with client change and release management, including maintenance windows and production teams
Manage acceptance: agree criteria, coordinate testing and secure formal sign off of delivered scope
Hand the delivered environment over to managed service operation, including operating model and service levels
Requirements
At least 5 years managing IT projects, including 3 years in infrastructure, IT operations or cloud projects
Delivery experience in at least two areas: operations automation, patch and vulnerability management, observability, virtualisation or private cloud, public cloud, migration programmes
Projects delivered both on premises and in public cloud, with an understanding of hybrid constraints
Fixed price delivery experience: scope control, change management and accountability for project margin
Enterprise clients: running steering committees and managing stakeholders at management level
Technical literacy to discuss architecture, automation and monitoring tooling with architects and engineers, without doing the engineering work
Command of planning, estimation, risk management and reporting in a classic, agile or hybrid model
Proficiency with Jira and Confluence
English at C1 level for running project meetings, negotiating scope and producing client documentation
Security projects: infrastructure hardening, vulnerability management, security monitoring, or controls from ISO 27001, NIS2 or DORA
Identity and access management projects: directory services, single sign on and federation, privileged access management, access reviews
Transitioning environments into managed service operation: service design, service levels and operational processes
PRINCE2 or PMP certification with ITIL, or command of German or Dutch
Conditions
Flexible and remote cooperation options
International projects with leading global clients
Travels related to international projects
Non-corporate atmosphere
Access to language classes
Access to knowledge-sharing initiatives
Access to private healthcare and life insurance
Access to multisport card
Availability and terms of individual benefits may vary depending on the chosen form of cooperation