Public Cloud Technical Project Manager

Job Title: Public Cloud Technical Project Manager

Contract Period: 1 year

Work location: Ridgefield Park, NJ

*This position could be converted to FTE.

Key Responsibilities

• Provides technical, administrative, and operational leadership to assigned AWS/Azure projects.
• Responsible for managing multiple AWS/Azure cloud development, hosting, and implementation tasks (schedule, quality, cost, risk) across the lifecycle of cloud managed services, including managing architects, engineers, and vendors.
• Develops technical AWS/Azure project plans, proposals, reports, and administrative documentation.
• Project-manages programs to improve business processes related to cloud sales, contracts, proposals, integration, pricing, implementation, development, and support.
• Ensures smooth project closure, validating success criteria, deliverables, and stakeholder acceptance.
• Leads AWS/Azure cloud process improvement initiatives, such as customer onboarding, change management, configuration management, and self-service solutions.
• Public cloud infrastructure delivery (compute, network, storage, IAM, database) is coordinated end-to-end, ensuring correct technical implementation, IaC execution (Terraform/CloudFormation), CI/CD alignment, and compliance with scalability, security, and reliability requirements.
• Drives and documents process improvements across Cloud Operations engagements.
• Supports Cloud Operations initiatives related to procurement and enterprise cloud platform growth.
• Drives security and cloud architecture initiatives, including release management and forward-looking process development.
• Leads customer meetings and serves as the primary client liaison for AWS/Azure cloud projects, facilitating both internal and external discussions.
• Ensures alignment across global support, customer success, and account teams through clear action plans.
• Acts as the single point of contact for critical issues, managing executive escalations and coordinating resolution across teams.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors/Master s Degree in a related business or technical discipline
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (experience with Azure/Google Cloud Platform is a plus)
• 8 10+ years of experience in Technical or IT Project Management
• Proven experience delivering AWS or cloud infrastructure projects
• Strong understanding of AWS core services (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, etc.)
• Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation
• Experience in Agile or hybrid delivery environments
• Strong ability to manage project schedules, dependencies, and risks
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in DevOps or cloud platform environments
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines
• Kubernetes or container infrastructure experience
• Experience in large-scale enterprise or multi-team delivery
• Exposure to GenAI / ML infrastructure projects

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Strong execution and delivery ownership mindset
• Comfortable working closely with engineering teams on technical topics
• Structured thinker with strong planning and documentation skills
• Able to manage complex, multi-team dependencies effectively
• Focused on delivery outcomes rather than architecture ownership