Technical Project Manager – Infrastructure & Cloud at The PMO Squad in Sacramento, CA, USA

Job description

• Our client, a national general contractor in the construction and engineering industry, is modernizing its enterprise content management and IT operations environment. This includes migrating off a legacy shared network drive to a governed cloud content platform, maturing configuration and asset management practices, and strengthening service desk and disaster recovery capabilities. We're looking for a technically fluent Project Manager to lead this portfolio of infrastructure and cloud initiatives from planning through execution.
• This role is remote-based but requires you to live near one of our client's office locations, with occasional travel expected. We're open to candidates based near any of the following areas: Atlanta, GA; Austin, TX; Concord, CA; Dallas, TX; Denver, CO; Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY; Portland, OR; Sacramento, CA; San Diego, CA; San Francisco, CA; Santa Ana, CA; Santa Clara, CA; or Seattle, WA. Candidates near Sacramento, Concord, or Denver are especially encouraged to apply.
• You're technically fluent enough to lead infrastructure, cloud, and IT service management work without needing a long ramp-up, and disciplined about governance and reporting. You're comfortable moving a distributed set of stakeholders - Legal, Risk, Security, Infrastructure, Finance - through decisions, and you operate well within formal governance structures like steering committees and stage gates without letting process slow you down.

Responsibilities

• Own the project plan, schedule, resourcing, risk log, and status reporting across a multi-phase enterprise content and cloud migration program.
• Lead platform selection, architecture design, migration sequencing, and legacy system decommissioning.
• Coordinate cross-functional dependencies (Legal, Risk, Security, Infrastructure, Digital Workplace, Finance) and escalate blockers through governance forums.
• Lead build-out of configuration management database (CMDB) and asset management capabilities, including data model and ownership.
• Improve service desk intake, incident, and request management processes and connect them to accurate configuration data.
• Update disaster recovery plans and business impact analyses; establish a quarterly DR testing program.
• Maintain consistent monthly status reporting and present progress, risks, and decisions to technology governance forums.
• Manage the portfolio plan in a project portfolio management tool and drive stakeholder communications and change management.

Requirements

• 7+ years of IT project management experience, including infrastructure or cloud programs in an enterprise environment with 1,000+ users.
• Led at least one content, file storage, or data center migration end to end - sequencing, cutover, and decommissioning.
• Hands-on experience implementing IT service management and CMDB capabilities in Freshservice or an equivalent platform.
• Experience developing disaster recovery plans, business impact analyses, and recurring testing programs.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft 365, SharePoint, and cloud infrastructure concepts sufficient to lead technical teams and vendors.
• PMP or equivalent project management certification.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to report to executives and translate technical work into business terms.
• ITIL 4 Foundation or higher.
• Experience in construction, engineering, or another field-based industry with distributed job sites and mobile workers.
• Prior SharePoint or document management platform migration experience, including migration tooling and permission remediation.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Purview, records management, and legal hold capabilities.
• Experience running programs through formal governance - steering committees, stage gates, executive reporting.
• Experience leading organizational change management for technology rollouts.

Skills

Required

• IT project management
• Microsoft 365 and SharePoint
• Cloud infrastructure concepts
• PMP or equivalent certification
• Strong written and verbal communication

Preferred

• ITIL 4 Foundation or higher
• Organizational change management