Senior technical project manager

Anonymous · Bengaluru, India

Technical Project Manager

Experience: 10 + years

The Opportunity

We are seeking a highly motivated Technical Manager with strong experience in private cloud infrastructure and cloud computing to join our team. As a Technical Manager, you will be responsible for planning, executing, and delivering complex private cloud and infrastructure transformation initiatives within scope, timeline, and budget. You will work with cross-functional engineering, operations, security, network, storage, and application teams to identify requirements, design solutions, and implement highly available cloud platforms.

In this role, you will play a key part in the delivery and operational readiness of enterprise private cloud programs, with particular focus on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), VMware virtualization, container platforms, Docker and Kubernetes. The role aligns business, engineering, operations, vendors, and technology teams to deliver secure, scalable, resilient, and supportable infrastructure services.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities Collaborate with stakeholders to define project requirements, scope, objectives, technical dependencies, and success criteria. Develop project plans and schedules, track progress, and report status to stakeholders. Manage project risks, issues, dependencies, capacity constraints, and technical blockers, and drive corrective actions as needed. Work with cross-functional teams to design, develop, implement, migrate, and operationalize private cloud and hybrid cloud solutions. Provide technical leadership for VMware-based private cloud environments, including VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), v Sphere/ESXi, v Center, NSX, v SAN, and related infrastructure components. Coordinate deployment and lifecycle management of containerized platforms and workloads using Docker and Kubernetes, including platform upgrades, cluster readiness, availability, and integration dependencies. Partner with infrastructure, network, storage, security, Dev Ops/SRE, and application teams to ensure end-to-end solution readiness. Support private cloud platform modernization, migrations, upgrades, patching, lifecycle management, capacity planning, and infrastructure automation initiatives. Ensure project deliverables meet architecture, security, operational, quality, and performance standards and are delivered on time and within budget. Develop and maintain project documentation, including project charters, technical plans, status reports, architecture/dependency diagrams, RAID logs, change requests, and operational handover documentation. Communicate project status, technical risks, issues, and dependencies to stakeholders, including executive leadership. Facilitate project kickoffs, technical workshops, architecture reviews, status meetings, change reviews, and retrospectives. Ensure adherence to project management, change management, security, infrastructure, and operational best practices, methodologies, and standards. Coach and mentor team members and coordinate technical teams through planning, implementation, testing, migration, production rollout, and stabilization. Ensure timely completion through all phases from planning and execution through production deployment and operational handover. Take the lead on quantifying and tracking quality and service-readiness issues. Lead knowledge transfer and end-user/operations training efforts during new platform or system handover. Lead technical team members for large enterprise infrastructure and private cloud deployments. Apply SDLC, infrastructure lifecycle, Dev Ops, and change/release management principles where applicable. Measure project and platform delivery performance using appropriate tools, metrics, and techniques. Report and escalate to management as needed and plan/adjust delivery based on constraints and dependencies. Develop spreadsheets, diagrams, process maps, dashboards, and technical documentation to capture requirements and delivery needs.

Requirements 10+ years of proven experience in technical project/program management, infrastructure delivery, cloud engineering, or related technical leadership roles. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field. Strong knowledge on enterprise private cloud and virtualization technologies, particularly VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), VMware v Sphere/ESXi, v Center, NSX, and v SAN. Hands-on or strong knowledge of container technologies and orchestration platforms, including Docker and Kubernetes. Good understanding of private cloud architecture across compute, virtualization, networking, storage, backup/recovery, security, monitoring, and automation. Experience managing infrastructure migrations, platform upgrades, patching, lifecycle management, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and production cutovers. Deep knowledge with automation and Infrastructure as Code concepts/tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Power Shell, or equivalent is strongly preferred. Good knowledge of Linux and Windows infrastructure, networking concepts, load balancing, DNS, firewalls, storage, and enterprise security controls. Experience with public/hybrid cloud services such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud is desirable, particularly where integrated with private cloud environments. Knowledge of project management methodologies such as Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid, along with change and release management practices. Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, vendor coordination, and problem-solving skills. Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced enterprise environment. Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office and project management/collaboration software including MS Project or equivalent, Jira, and Confluence. PMP, Certified Scrum Master, VMware/VCF, Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), or relevant cloud/infrastructure certification is a plus.

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