Infrastructure Project Manager

Infrastructure Project Manager – Roles & Responsibilities

1. Project Planning & Governance

Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, and success criteria.

Develop project plans, schedules, milestones, and implementation timelines.

Manage resources and vendors for cabling and hardware movement.

Establish project governance, reporting, and escalation processes.

Track project progress and ensure adherence to agreed timelines.

2. Stakeholder Management

Coordinate with infrastructure, network, security, and application teams.

Manage vendor and third-party engagements, where applicable.

Facilitate project meetings, steering committee updates, and status reporting.

Communicate project risks, issues, decisions, and dependencies to stakeholders.

3. Risk & Issue Management

Identify project risks and dependencies.

Develop mitigation and contingency plans.

Drive issue resolution across technical and business teams.

Escalate critical blockers impacting project delivery.

4. Infrastructure Delivery Oversight

Ensure infrastructure components are designed, built, configured, and tested according to requirements.

Track readiness of servers, storage, network, cloud, security, monitoring, backup, and components.

Validate technical deliverables against architecture and operational standards.

Ensure all required approvals, reviews, and sign-offs are completed.

5. Change & Release Coordination

Manage implementation schedules and change windows.

Coordinate CAB approvals and change management activities.

Ensure implementation and rollback plans are documented and validated.

Oversee cutover planning and migration activities.

6. Testing & Validation Management

Ensure SIT, UAT, performance, security, and operational testing are completed.

Track defects, remediation actions, and testing sign-offs.

Coordinate end-to-end validation across all infrastructure domains.

7. Documentation & Handover

Ensure operational documentation is completed.

Validate support processes and runbooks.

Coordinate knowledge transfer to Operations and Support teams.

Obtain final project acceptance and closure approvals.

Ensure appropriate BAU handover is completed.