Infrastructure Project Manager

Role : Infrastructure Project Manager

Location: Alpharetta, GA (Onsite 5 Days/Week)

Job Type: Full-Time

• Manage enterprise-wide infrastructure, database, network, cloud, and security-related initiatives.
• Coordinate projects impacting hundreds of applications across multiple portfolios and technology teams.
• Work closely with application owners, infrastructure teams, security teams, and senior stakeholders.
• Understand technical changes and assess business, operational, and application impacts.
• Translate technical information into business-friendly updates, risks, decisions, and executive communications.
• Manage 4-5 concurrent, time-sensitive projects, including long-term initiatives lasting 6+ months.
• Develop project roadmaps, schedules, dependencies, and remediation plans.
• Drive project execution through effective stakeholder coordination and risk management.

Key Responsibilities

Project Planning & Delivery

• Manage multiple infrastructure, database, network, AWS, and security projects simultaneously.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, and roadmaps.
• Define priorities, dependencies, risks, assumptions, and action plans.
• Track project progress and ensure timely delivery of milestones.
• Coordinate long-term remediation and infrastructure modernization programs.

Stakeholder & Team Coordination

• Coordinate activities across multiple portfolios and technical teams.
• Partner with application owners, security teams, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders.
• Facilitate project meetings, readiness reviews, working sessions, and stakeholder discussions.
• Obtain commitments from responsible teams and ensure accountability.
• Follow up proactively on deliverables and remediation activities.

Change & Impact Management

• Understand the purpose and scope of proposed technical changes.
• Assess upstream and downstream application impacts.
• Coordinate enterprise-wide changes affecting large application environments.
• Ensure compliance with infrastructure, AWS, security, and governance policies.
• Validate implementation readiness and deployment requirements.

Risk & Issue Management

• Identify risks, issues, resource constraints, and schedule concerns.
• Develop mitigation and contingency plans.
• Escalate critical risks with an appropriate sense of urgency.
• Drive issue resolution until completion.
• Support major incident coordination and remediation efforts.

Communication & Reporting

• Translate technical discussions into business-focused communication.
• Prepare executive-level status reports and presentations.
• Provide updates on project status, risks, dependencies, and decisions.
• Communicate production risks and business impacts effectively.
• Act as the communication bridge between technology teams and leadership.

Implementation Support

• Coordinate implementation planning and validation activities.
• Manage communication plans and stakeholder notifications.
• Support rollback planning and contingency management.
• Conduct post-implementation reviews and follow-ups.
• Provide occasional weekend or after-hours support during critical implementations or incidents.

Required Qualifications

Project Management Experience

• 10 years of Project Management experience.
• Experience managing infrastructure, database, cloud, network, security, or production-support initiatives.
• Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent projects.
• Experience working within large enterprise environments.
• Strong Agile and Scrum knowledge.

Technical Understanding

• Working knowledge of AWS cloud environments.
• Understanding of networking concepts and infrastructure architecture.
• Knowledge of databases and application dependencies.
• Ability to evaluate technical changes and business impacts.
• Familiarity with security and governance requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP Certification preferred.
• AWS Associate Certification preferred.
• Experience with Power BI dashboard development and reporting.
• Experience supporting regulated or highly governed environments.
• Experience managing infrastructure migrations and upgrade programs.
• Experience coordinating enterprise remediation initiatives.
• Experience supporting database modernization and security programs.

Technical Knowledge Expectations

Cloud & AWS

• AWS infrastructure and cloud governance policies.
• AWS networking and connectivity concepts.
• Cloud migration and remediation projects.

Networking

• VPCs (Virtual Private Clouds).
• VPC Endpoints.
• Routing and Route Tables.
• Security Groups.
• Network ACLs (NACLs).

Databases

• Oracle Database.
• Amazon RDS.
• Amazon Aurora.
• Microsoft SQL Server.
• Amazon DynamoDB.

Operating Systems

• Windows Server environments.
• Linux environments.

Security & Identity

• Identity and Access Management (IAM).
• Security governance and controls.
• Access management processes.

Infrastructure Operations

• Infrastructure upgrades and migrations.
• Server patching and remediation.
• Monitoring and alerting.
• Production incident management.
• Performance and availability management.

Application Dependencies

• Upstream and downstream application dependencies.
• Service integrations and interconnectivity.
• Enterprise application impact assessments.

Key Success Attributes

• Strong sense of urgency.
• Excellent prioritization skills.
• Strong organizational abilities.
• Executive-level communication skills.
• Team-oriented and collaborative mindset.
• Consistent accountability and ownership.
• Ability to influence without direct authority.
• Confidence in technical discussions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to simplify complex technical concepts.
• Proactive risk identification and escalation.
• Strong follow-through and execution focus.
• Ability to work effectively with both leadership and technical teams.