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.