Project Manager

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Remote

Duration: 6 Months + Extension

Bill Rate: $83-$94/hour

Job Type: W-2 Contract

Client: To Be Discussed Later

Work Authorization: US-Citizen, H-1B, OPT-EAD, GC-EAD

Job Summary:

• Technical project management: Lead planning, scheduling, execution, and delivery of technical projects and operational initiatives.
• Facilitate stand-ups, planning sessions, risk reviews, status meetings, and retrospectives as appropriate.
• Define scope, milestones, dependencies, owners, and success criteria, and maintain clear project plans and documentation.
• Track progress, risks, issues, decisions, and action items; escalate blockers and drive timely resolution.
• Communicate status, impacts, and next steps clearly to technical teams, business stakeholders, and leadership.
• IT liaison and production change support: Serve as the primary coordination point between IT infrastructure, operations, security, and application teams.
• Review proposed infrastructure, cloud, platform, network, operating system, database, and security changes.
• Analyze proposed changes to determine their impact on production applications and business operations.
• Perform checks before and after each change to ensure production applications continue to work as expected. Coordinate reviews, timing, communication, monitoring, and rollback plans.
• Support incident coordination, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and follow-up actions when infrastructure changes affect production services.
• Promote consistent change-management practices and complete, audit-ready documentation.
Required Qualifications
• Excellent communication is a key requirement. Must be able to explain technical information clearly, lead discussions, and keep technical teams, business partners, and leadership aligned.
• Experience in technical project management, IT operations, infrastructure, or production support.
• Ability to manage project scope, schedules, dependencies, risks, issues, and communication.
• Basic knowledge of cloud and IT infrastructure and how changes may affect production applications.
• Experience with change management, impact reviews, testing, implementation planning, or production support.
• Ability to explain technical risks, impacts, decisions, and actions clearly.
• Strong organization, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to work well with IT, infrastructure, security, operations, vendors, application teams, and business partners.
Preferred Qualifications
• Scrum Master, PMI-ACP, PMP, SAFe, ITIL, or similar project, Agile, or service-management certification.
• Experience leading Agile or hybrid delivery teams and facilitating Scrum ceremonies.
• Familiarity with AWS or other cloud environments and services such as compute, containers, load balancing, monitoring, identity and access management, databases, serverless services, and storage.
• Experience with change-control processes, infrastructure operations, production readiness reviews, incident management, or regulated environments.
• Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, or Confluence.
This position is ideal for a technically fluent project leader who can create structure, drive accountability, and connect infrastructure teams with application stakeholders to ensure changes are understood, tested, communicated, and implemented safely in production. Application development experience is not required.

Equal Opportunity Employer: We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.