IT Project Manager (Network, Security, Data Center)

Job Title - IT Project Manager (Network, Security, Data Center)

Duration - Contract

Location - Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Roles & responsibilities for Project reporting and management

• Lead and manage large-scale network infrastructure projects across multiple data centers
• Create & maintain detailed project schedule
• Manage equipment orders, staging & inventory
• Conduct weekly meetings, and document via weekly Status Reports that include the following content: Team Accomplishments, Agenda, Key Point / Minutes from Last Meeting, 2 week Look-Ahead, Actions, Red/Amber/Green Issue Tracking Summary, Network Change Request Summary
• Provide detailed and timely regular and ad-hoc updates to management
• Ensure timely and accurate publication of all project deliverables owed by Deployment Engineers
• Manage project delivery
• Escalate project issues to management
• Support project closure activities

Roles & responsibilities for Implementation Interaction

• Strong understanding for network concepts (BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VXLAN)
• Experience with data center network architecture
• Work with Deployment Engineers in creating, and participate actively in the creation of, the following mandatory network implementation deliverables.
• Act as primary liaison between implementation team and internal groups including IT Facilities, Application Connectivity, UNIX / Wintel, business /client and peer resources. and external groups including collocation providers and equipment staging partners.
• Secure approval for non-standard implementation
• Coordinate appropriate updates with NMS Team as devices are productionized and ensure all network devices are properly inventoried in data base.
• Secure appropriate signoff for all deliverables produced or updated during a project
• Oversee and manage day to day activities of Deployment Engineers
• Ensure all networking systems are delivered based upon internal network standards
• Ensure compliance with standard network deployment practices during implementation
• Create, or work with Deployment Engineers to create, Change Requests.
• Secure approval for change requests.
• Attend weekly change control meetings to present, or support presentation by Deployment Engineers, of network changes
• Host testing bridge conference calls for any changes involving disruption to service
• Coordinate next business day support for changes
• Issue notifications for all change events