Infrastructure Project Manager

Infrastructure Project Manager

📍 Location: The Woodlands, TX (On-site Monday–Thursday)

📅 Duration: 1-year contract with potential to extend or convert to permanent

Key Responsibilities

• Manage multiple IT infrastructure projects, including cloud, network, server, storage, endpoint, and technology upgrade initiatives.
• Coordinate migrations, upgrades, patching, maintenance windows, and production changes while minimizing business disruption.
• Develop project plans, timelines, status reports, and risk/issue tracking.
• Partner with Infrastructure, Cloud, Network, Security, Applications, Service Desk, vendors, and business stakeholders.
• Ensure operational readiness, including implementation and rollback plans, runbooks, testing, documentation, and support handoffs.
• Track project milestones, dependencies, vendor commitments, and budgets.
• Communicate project status, risks, service impacts, and decisions to technical teams and executive leadership.

Required Qualifications

• 5 years of experience managing IT infrastructure projects or technical operations initiatives.
• Hands-on infrastructure experience is required, with a practical understanding of enterprise IT environments and infrastructure operations (coordinating infrastructure implementations, migrations, upgrades, patching, and production changes)
• Working knowledge of cloud, networking, servers, storage, endpoints, backup/recovery, monitoring, and IT service management.
• Strong project management skills, including schedules, risks, issues, dependencies, and stakeholder coordination.
• Experience with project management and reporting tools such as MS Project, Monday.com, Azure DevOps, Power BI, or Excel.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical details into clear business updates.
• Strong organization, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred: PMP, ITIL, or Agile certification; cloud/infrastructure certifications; experience with disaster recovery, vendor management, or ITIL-based service management.