Required Skills: Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, Palo Alto, Waterfall, Agile, PMBOK
Job Description
Technical Project Manager with Network, Telecom
Key Responsibilities
Project Management
- Lead end-to-end project planning, execution, monitoring, and closure for network infrastructure initiatives.
- Develop project plans, schedules, and resource allocations in coordination with the domain engineering lead.
- Coordinate cross-functional project teams including network engineers, security, operations, and vendors.
- Proactively identify project risks and cross-team or cross-system dependencies; maintain a risk log with mitigation plans and escalate blocking risks through the appropriate rituals.
- Maintain project documentation, reports, and communication dashboards.
Stakeholder Coordination
- Serve as the point of coordination with vendors, service providers, and contractors on schedule and delivery follow-up (vendor negotiation and RFP ownership sit with the engineering lead / procurement).
- Communicate project status to stakeholders and leadership.
- Align project deliverables with business requirements and expectations.
Reporting & Continuous Improvement
- Collaborate with the domain engineering lead and shared financial services to surface budget status in project reporting (budget ownership is not a TPM responsibility).
- Contribute a retrospective component to project reviews: what worked, what didn't, and concrete process adjustments.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
- 7+ years of experience managing IT or network infrastructure projects.
- Strong understanding of networking technologies (Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, Palo Alto, etc.).
- Experience with project management methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, PMBOK).
- Proficiency with project management tools (MS Project, Jira, Asana, etc.).
- Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to translate technical concepts into business language.
- PMP, PRINCE2, ITIL, or similar certification is a plus.