Network PM

I am looking for someone with strong network skills with an element of Project management experience. A large financial group with an IT Focus seek a Project Manager. This IT Project Manager will join the DC & Infrastructure team in providing technical solutions and support. The ideal candidate will have at least 3+ years experience. This will be an initial 11 month fixed term contract.

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE "Ideal" candidate will have

- Degree in IT/IT related discipline
- Project Management Certification.

EXPERIENCE IN SOME OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING CORE SKILLS:

- Cisco Firewalls (ASA)
- Cisco Routers/Switches.
- Juniper Firewalls (SSG, ISG & SRX)
- WAN Communications (MPLS, Frame Relay)
- TCP/IP over LANs and WANs
- Network Services (DNS, HTTP, HTTPS, etc.)
- VPN/RSA
- ISP environments
- Internet Technologies (Email, Proxy, Firewall)
- Network Management (SNMP)
- Encryption and Digital Certification
- File Transfer protocols, specifically connect direct, sftp and https, preferably over the Sterling Integrator application.
- Unix/Linux/Windows
- Load Balancers, F5 and Juniper DX.
- SSL based encryption

BENEFICIAL - MS Project, MS Visio, MS Exchange KEY TASKS

- Ability to manage multiple IT projects or jobs of work concurrently to deadline deliverables.
- Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and others involved in the project deployment.
- Delegate tasks and responsibilities to the appropriate personnel.
- Proactively monitor and measure project projection driving the necessary corrective actions if they are needed.
- Provide support to the Business project teams in planning and implementing network change to facilitate project functionality against set deadlines.
- Track project milestones and deliverables.
- Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises and resolve.
- Relationship management with client throughout the life cycle of the project.
- Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management.
- Ensure appropriate levels of project documentation are in place to support the deployment of all new projects.
- Competent understanding of data centre platforms.
- Technically competent with various software applications, network devices and appliances.
- Must be able to understand and adapt to existing and new technologies within the platform.