Infrastructure Data Centre Project Manager – 12 Month Contract (London, Hybrid)
Inside IR35 - £550 P/D
We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure / Data Centre Project Manager to deliver complex, high-availability infrastructure projects across our enterprise environment. This role requires strong technical understanding, exceptional stakeholder management, and the ability to drive delivery in a fast-paced, hybrid working model.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with internal teams, vendors, and external customers.
- Understand high-level and low-level technical architectures, facilitating technical discussions and guiding decisions on the most appropriate solutions.
- Ensure all project requirements and documentation meet company standards and are delivered on schedule.
- Develop and present comprehensive technical solutions to customers and senior stakeholders.
- Lead project communications, including conference calls, technical reviews, and status reporting.
- Oversee and coordinate complex data centre installations, migrations, and infrastructure upgrades.
- Manage risks, issues, and dependencies across compute, storage, network, and facilities components.
- Coordinate cabling, rack-and-stack, power provisioning, cooling requirements, and physical data centre readiness activities.
- Work closely with data centre operations teams to plan and execute change windows, maintenance events, and deployment schedules.
- Ensure compliance with data centre security, access control procedures, and operational standards.
- Track hardware procurement, delivery schedules, asset lifecycle, and vendor service activities.
- Report and escalate all observed problems through appropriate operational channels.
- Manage change and release communications to customers and internal stakeholders.
- Create clear and concise operational playbooks, technical documentation, and handover materials.
- Flexibility to work irregular hours when required (e.g., maintenance windows, go-lives).
Skills & Experience
- Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of project delivery management experience.
- Minimum 5 years supporting and/or delivering field services for hardware and software products.
- Strong knowledge of data centre environments, including servers, networking, storage, cabling, power, cooling and physical security.
- Proven track record managing data centre migrations, deployments, or large-scale infrastructure rollouts.
- Experienced in coordinating global, cross-functional technical teams.
- Excellent communication, presentation and customer-facing skills.
- Strong organisational ability with the capacity to multitask and operate with minimal supervision.
- PMP certification preferred.
