Description

SAIC is looking for an Infrastructure Project Manager to join our team supporting an important US government agency in the National Capital Region. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a team that engineers and implements upgrades and changes to critical IT systems and applications.
This role requires on-site work in Washington, D.C. 2 days per week.
The customer manages and maintains a roadmap of IT infrastructure projects and upgrades that are prioritized and assigned for execution to SAIC. Major projects include Azure and Microsoft Dynamics migrations, RedHat (RHEL) and Windows Server and Desktop operating system upgrades, Oracle Database and Middleware Upgrades, ZTA implementation, NetBackup Modernization, Mobile Device Refresh and more. These are a few examples of the important projects for which the project manager in this position would be responsible for leading and managing.
Project managers provide leadership and direction to cross-functional project teams comprised of systems engineers, test engineers, systems administrators, database administrators, federal project sponsors and others. Project managers are responsible for scope, schedule, and quality performance of IT project teams.
Responsibilities also include conducting scrum ceremonies, managing scope, coordinating stakeholder participation, assessing, and mitigating risks, reporting progress against plan, and collecting lessons learned.
Qualifications

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's degree with 10 years' of project management experience in a technical environment with a variety of IT systems. At least eight of those years of experience must be leading the execution of IT projects in a project or task manager role.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• PMP Certification required.
• Agile methodology, Scrum framework knowledge and experience. The successful candidate must also have broad knowledge of current information technology systems, infrastructures, and technologies.
• Candidate must have strong communication skills and the ability to interact with a large community of stakeholders.
• Candidates must possess leadership skills to successfully manage diverse teams.
• All candidates for consideration must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Strong understanding of IT Infrastructure projects, SDLC and technical experience (certifications preferred) in Microsoft, knowledge and experience in Change and Release Management, Iaas, SaaS and PaaS are also a plus.
• Experience using Azure DevOps Server software for project management.
• Experience managing IT infrastructure projects through an Agile methodology.
• A strong working knowledge of network technologies and concepts, Active Directory, Windows OS, and Desktop and cloud applications such as Office365 and SharePoint Online.

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.