Infrastructure Project Manager

Location: Charlotte
Status: Contract
Compensation: Submit Competitive Rate
Education Level: Not Specified

Title: Infrastructure Project Manager
Location: Charlotte, NC
Type: Contract
Duration: 12 months
Job Description:
Our client, a leading provider of cable and telecom services, is seeking a Project Manager to work closely with the business and technology owners.
Duties include:

- Plans, organizes and controls assigned cross-functional projects from conceptual stages through product development life cycles.
- Determines detailed approach and timeline of projects.
- Defines roles and expectations of team members and ensures timely feedback.
- Measures and monitors progress to ensure that a project is delivered on time, within budget, and meets or exceeds expectations. Communicates key milestones, issues and project status.
- Resolves issues affecting project scope, quality, effort, risk, and timeline.
- Creates and manages contingency plans for the project, if necessary. Reviews and provides feedback on project deliverables (product requirements, functional specifications, etc.).
- Works with project teams to manage a variety of project issues and track product defects via the company's Defect Tracking tool (HP Quality Center) through closure, escalating as appropriate.
- Coordinates the hand-off of deliverables across functional areas (eg, from engineering to QA to deployment).

Required Skills:

- Experience managing infrastructure projects.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously; prioritize and monitor engineering and operations tasks and resources across projects.
- Demonstrated leadership, planning, organizational and analytical skills.
- Broad understanding of the product development disciplines necessary to develop, design, evaluate, test, implement, operate, and maintain integrated products based on a complex infrastructure.
- Unix.
- Linux.
- Basic knowledge of various infrastructure technologies.
- Strong communication skills.
- Extensive practical knowledge in importing data for use in report software, spreadsheets, graphs, and flow charts.
- Experience with core software applications, including Java,.Net and web services based architecture.

.* W2 only; No third party or 1099 candidates.*

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

- Client will not accept subcontractors
- You must be authorized to work in the U.S. on a Full time basis.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- Project Manager
- Infrastructure
- SQL
- Windows 2008
- Linux

BENEFITS/PERKS

- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- and Life Insurance for Full-time W2 Consultants. Supplemental Disability and Long-Term Care Insurance
- Dependent Care Assistance. 401(k) with Roth feature. Free E-learning Courses

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