Job Title: Infrastructure Project Manager
Location: New York, NY Remote
We are currently seeking candidates who meet the following qualification
Duties & Responsibilities
1. Project Planning and Execution
- Develop, maintain, and manage comprehensive project plans, including timelines, milestones, and deliverables.
- Lead project execution to ensure tasks are completed on schedule and within approved budgets.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to ensure alignment and collaboration throughout the project lifecycle.
- Manage project change control processes, ensuring scope, timeline, and budget changes are properly documented and approved.
- Record decisions and maintain a centralized project documentation repository.
- Develop project trackers, dashboards, and presentations using Visio, PowerPoint, and Excel for stakeholders at all organizational levels across CUNY.
2. Risk Management and Issue Resolution
- Identify project risks and develop mitigation strategies to minimize potential impact.
- Monitor, track, and proactively address risks throughout the project lifecycle.
- Resolve project issues and escalate to senior leadership when necessary.
3. Budget Management
- Track, monitor, and report project expenditures to ensure compliance with approved budgets.
- Identify and implement cost-saving opportunities to optimize project spending.
4. Stakeholder Communication and Reporting
- Prepare and deliver regular project status reports, including updates on progress, risks, and issues.
- Facilitate effective communication among project teams, stakeholders, and external partners to ensure transparency and alignment.
- Convene and lead steering committee meetings, including weekly project meetings and ad-hoc sessions as required.
5. Team Leadership and Collaboration
- Provide tactical direction to project teams to ensure alignment with project goals and objectives.
- Foster a collaborative and supportive team environment that encourages open communication and knowledge sharing.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, campus IT departments, and subject matter experts to ensure successful project delivery.
6. Technical Expertise and Guidance
- Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of network architecture, IP address management, and the design of a shared intranet environment.
- Lead technical planning and execution meetings, particularly for server workload migrations, in collaboration with SMEs and campus IT teams.
Mandatory Qualifications
1. Technical Background
- Comprehensive understanding of enterprise network architecture, including secure communication channels such as VPNs.
- Strong knowledge of cybersecurity principles, including Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and Proofpoint email security.
- In-depth understanding of IT infrastructure, including networking, virtualization, and storage.
- Familiarity with enterprise platforms and technologies such as Cisco Systems, VMware, NetApp, and Nutanix.
- Experience with IP address management (IPAM), including managing IP scope changes across multiple campuses.
- Proven experience managing server migrations, including planning, execution, troubleshooting, and validation.
- Ability to document system designs, configurations, and operational procedures to support efficient infrastructure management.
2. Project Management
- High proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications, including Project, Teams, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, and advanced Excel.
- Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions and infrastructure designs.
- Experience developing and executing project plans for university-wide network infrastructure implementations.
- Experience managing projects involving 20–50 stakeholders.
3. Collaboration and Communication
- Excellent interpersonal skills to build strong relationships with university stakeholders, including unit staff, administrators, faculty, students, technical staff, and SMEs.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills to facilitate discussions, articulate requirements, and deliver presentations to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Should you be interested, please send me a copy of your resume in word format along with the following details ASAP.
We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.