Infrastructure Project Manager, Self Represented
Great opportunity for an Infrastructure IT Project Manager! - Self represented, USC or GC
No C2C vendor support.
Contract, potentially long term
Location: 2-3 day/week Lansing, Michigan
Required skills:
- 5+ Years of Project Management experience
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Possession of a Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification highly desired
Ideal Candidate:
- Responsible for planning, coordinating, and implementing projects within the decided-upon budget, timeline, and scope. Effectively monitor and present project updates to relevant stakeholders, clients, or project team members.
- Possess strong leadership skills and a basic understanding of IT infrastructure and how the IT components interact via network communications. (Firewall, VIP, F5 Listener, Port, etc.)
- Possess a basic understanding of IT infrastructure components, including networks, servers, storage, web and virtual/cloud environments.
- Assist in evaluation of technical requirements and propose solutions that meet business objectives while adhering to SOM best practices and industry standards.
- This position provides oversight, leadership, accountability, and project management functions for one or more large size, complex projects.
- These projects typically utilize vendor participation and require complex schedules and integration with other systems.
- Large sized projects typically have durations longer than 6 months with 20 or more team members, require communication at the Agency Leadership level and have a medium to high risk.
This position will:
- Ensure consistency with the State of Michigan (SOM) project management methodology (SUITE), investment management and systems engineering methodology.
- Perform long-term release planning based on organizational direction.
- Regularly interact with the project management teams for status of budget, quality, and schedule.
- Escalate issues and risks as needed to executives and exercise project quality control activities to ensure project scope expectations are met.
OpTech is a woman-owned company that values your ideas, encourages your growth, and always has your back. When you work at OpTech, not only do you get health and dental benefits, but you also have training opportunities, flexible/remote work options, growth opportunities, 401K and competitive pay.
OpTech is an equal opportunity employer and it committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, status as a parent, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.