Cloud Project Manager

Job Title: Cloud Project Manager
Work location: Ridgefield Park, NJ (must be able to work onsite according to company policy, currently 3 day/wk onsite)
Duration: 1 year
- Travel up to 30% (domestic) upon client needs

Requirements
Must have a bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Technology, Computer Information Systems, Computer Applications, Engineering, or a related field, plus 5 years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the IT consulting industry
Must have 4 years of experience in each of the following
o Leading architectural design, development, deployment, and technical quality of service delivery systems tooling solutions;
o Validating and evaluating system architecture to align with technical design specifications;
o Gathering business requirements;
o Utilizing ITIL, DevOps, and Agile frameworks;
o Collaborating effectively with account teams, client IT teams, and business process teams during pursuit and entire process for application implementation
o Experience working with Docker or Podman, Kubernetes, and/or Openshift
o Experience with an administrator on a variety of Linux/Windows systems
Must have 2 years of experience in Agile project management and IT quality processes and policies in a validated environment
Experience in data/DB migration
Knowledge of cloud computing technology (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
Experience with networking, and compute infrastructure such as servers, databases, firewalls, load balance, etc.
Knowledge of system monitoring, capacity planning, and understanding architecture principles across infrastructure platform
Experience with a cluster configuration (Windows, Linux)
Experience with information security practices and procedures
Documentation skills using MS Office products.
Must have willingness and ability to travel domestically approximately 30% of the time to meet client needs

Responsibilities:
Assess, plan, implement and/or support infra/application migration solutions for our clients, spanning simple IT projects to large-scale, enterprise-level change programs
Conduct application architecture assessments and define solutions for complex problems that require an in-depth evaluation of variable factors
Design/customize and execute migration workflows that incorporate technical steps to migrate or build infrastructure and application components
Come up with a cost reduction strategy and calculate/compare as-is vs. to-be TCO.
Provide the project s technical conscience, defining and driving the right solution to meet technical performance, scalability, flexibility, operations, and capability needs
Manage onshore and offshore resources, distribute responsibilities across team members, and report on the status of assigned scope of work to client stakeholders
Adhere to the strategic direction set by senior management when establishing near-term goals
Act independently to determine methods and procedures on new assignments, making decisions that are implemented by the team
Meet/interact with our clients application owners and infrastructure support personnel to communicate migration activities comprising implementation plans, and review sequencing and timing details of application outages and post-migration testing