What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager – Data Center Decomm position at TSP?
Arlington, Virginia - 2026-06-03
Responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing enterprise-scale data center decommissioning activities as part of Sanofi’s global infrastructure transformation initiative. The role involves server and storage retirement, migration coordination, asset tracking, vendor management, risk mitigation, and compliance-driven shutdown activities across legacy data center environments.
THESE ARE THE JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF A PROJECT MANAGER – DATA CENTER DECOMM:
TSP is award-winning, customer-endorsed, and minority-owned. We provide custom, flexible, and flawlessly executed IT services and talent solutions throughout the United States and Canada.
We create great customer experiences by saving you time and money. We’re driven by integrity — we do what we say we will do — exceeding expectations. Our value-based pricing is tailored to your business objectives, with your success as our top priority. We don’t manufacture devices or sell software — our product is our people.
TSP is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified persons without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing enterprise-scale data center decommissioning activities as part of Sanofi’s global infrastructure transformation initiative. The role involves server and storage retirement, migration coordination, asset tracking, vendor management, risk mitigation, and compliance-driven shutdown activities across legacy data center environments.
THESE ARE THE JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF A PROJECT MANAGER – DATA CENTER DECOMM:
- Lead end-to-end data center decommissioning activities for legacy infrastructure environments.
- Coordinate shutdown and retirement of:
- Physical servers
- Storage arrays
- Network devices
- Backup systems
- Power and rack infrastructure
- Work closely with infrastructure, application, cloud, security, and facilities teams during migration and cutover activities
- Validate migration completion before decommission approval
- Maintain CMDB and asset inventory accuracy
- Create and execute:
- Decommission runbooks
- Change records
- Migration schedules
- Risk and rollback plans
- Coordinate secure data destruction and hardware disposal in compliance with regulatory requirements
- Manage vendors for:
- Asset recovery
- Cabling removal
- Rack teardown
- E-waste recycling
- Ensure compliance with:
- GxP
- SOX
- HIPAA
- Pharmaceutical validation standards
- Participate in weekend and after-hours migration/decommission windows
- Generate status reports and executive updates for program leadership
- Infrastructure
- Windows Server / Linux administration
- VMware / virtualization platforms
- SAN and NAS storage systems
- Network infrastructure fundamentals
- Backup and recovery systems
- Cloud migration exposure (AWS/Azure/private cloud)
- Decommissioning and Migration
- Data center consolidation
- Server/storage migration
- Asset lifecycle management
- ITIL change management
- Disaster recovery coordination
- Cutover planning
- Rack and stack/de-racking activities
- Tools
- ServiceNow
- CMDB tools
- Excel/reporting dashboards
- Project tracking tools (Jira, MS Project, Smartsheet)
- Pay: negotiable
- View our benefits information here: https://marketing.mytsp.net/tsp-benefits
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States
TSP is award-winning, customer-endorsed, and minority-owned. We provide custom, flexible, and flawlessly executed IT services and talent solutions throughout the United States and Canada.
We create great customer experiences by saving you time and money. We’re driven by integrity — we do what we say we will do — exceeding expectations. Our value-based pricing is tailored to your business objectives, with your success as our top priority. We don’t manufacture devices or sell software — our product is our people.
TSP is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified persons without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.