Network Technical Project Manager

Role: Network Technical Project Manager
Location: Southern California (Remote)
Duration: 3+ Months
Overview: We are seeking a Network Technical Project Manager to coordinate a large-scale campus network modernization program involving wired networking, wireless infrastructure, and Network Access Control (NAC). The project includes detailed planning, infrastructure build-out, pilot deployment, and phased campus installations and migrations. The ideal candidate will combine strong technical project management skills with practical networking knowledge to manage dependencies, mitigate risks, and ensure successful deployment.
Key Responsibilities:

• Manage project plans, schedules, and technical workstreams across wired, wireless, and NAC deployments.
• Translate engineering requirements into actionable site-by-site implementation plans.
• Track progress, dependencies, risks, issues, and decisions across build, remediation, testing, and migration activities.
• Coordinate with network engineers, architects, business teams, procurement, and deployment teams.
• Manage technical blockers and escalations while communicating project impacts and decisions to stakeholders.
• Coordinate design, build, testing, pilot deployments, and phased migration activities.
• Track site readiness, change windows, installation dependencies, testing, and go/no-go decisions.
• Support coordination of requirements for the internal Device Registration Portal.
• Communicate technical risks, options, and impacts clearly to business leadership.

Required Qualifications:

• Strong project/program management experience in network or infrastructure modernization.
• Experience managing technical dependencies, risks, schedules, and cross-functional workstreams.
• Working knowledge of networking fundamentals, including Layer 1 cabling and optics, Layer 2 switching, VLANs, spanning tree, Layer 3 routing, IP addressing, and subnets.
• Understanding of network devices, including switches, wireless access points, routers, and firewalls.
• Knowledge of installation readiness, including cabling, power, rack space, circuits, site access, security approvals, and vendor coordination.
• Understanding of migration planning, cutovers, outage impacts, validation, rollback, and escalation procedures.
• Ability to coordinate network testing and readiness checks, including connectivity, routing, VLANs, and access to required services.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and independent decision-making skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Alcatel-Client Enterprise (ALE) networking equipment.
• Experience with large-scale campus network modernization and phased migrations.
• Familiarity with Cisco, Aruba, Juniper, or Palo Alto Networks.
• Exposure to enterprise NAC, SD-WAN, or network automation platforms.
• Experience supporting organizational change management (OCM) and user-impact communications.