Project Manager - Infrastructure Optimization

PROJECT MANAGER - INFRASTRUCTURE OPTIMIZATION

NO THIRD PARTIES PLEASE.

LOCATION: NEW YORK, NY

DURATION: 6MONTHS + WITH ROLLING RENEWALS

TERM: CONTRACT/C2C

CLIENT: BANKING/FINANCIAL

RATE: MARKET

KEYWORDS: PROJECT MANAGER, OPTIMIZATION, SERVER INVENTORY, INFRASTRUCTURE, MIGRATION, SOLARIS, WINDOWS, SUSE, LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER, ORACLE, HP, EMC SAN, VMWARE, VIRTUALIZATION

Mansion House is an independent international business and technology consultancy focused exclusively on the Finance Service Sector. We provide innovative solutions to the corporate and transaction banking, capital markets, wealth and investment management communities through our team of highly skilled Subject Matter Experts. We have offices in London, New York, Jacksonville, FL, Frankfurt and Singapore. Overall we specialize in Global Change Management programs.

BANKING/FINANCIAL EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

RESPONSIBILITIES

- Conduct reviews with Application Owners (AOs) with a view to optimizing their physical/non- compliant/inefficient/underutilized infrastructure environment.
- Use in-house tools to determine right sized virtual or new hardware environments. 
- Take solution to application owners for validation and approval.
- Gather application requirements and translate into infrastructure environment design that caters to the application while deploying the most efficient infrastructure footprint possible.
- Gain acceptance for proposed design.
- Raise and track Request for Service' (RfS) packs against the desired end state solution using in-house tools.
- Conduct regular meetings with AOs, Technical staff and key stakeholders.
- Work with technical resources (SA's/DBA's etc.) and AOs to understand application setup and devise/plan migration strategies
- Work closely with the Infrastructure Systems Assembly team to ensure accurate execution of RfS packs.
- Ensure application developers/owners are kept informed of the progress and that continued discussions are held to ensure that application technologies are factored in to proposed solution
- Schedule migration windows with app dev to ensure smooth cut over of applications to target platform
- Manage migration windows and ensure full support is obtained from all support areas including SA's, DBA's, Network and Firewall teams.
- Report on project progress using the Optimization group's project tracker, keeping all relevant data up to date on a weekly basis

EXPERIENCE/BACKGROUND

- Previous experience working as an Infrastructure PM in a Banking environment preferable.
- Experience with some or all of the following technologies: Solaris, Windows, SLES, Oracle (hardware and database), HP, EMC SAN, VMware virtualization
- Ability to track multiple infrastructure related projects
- Confident, pragmatic with a tenacious work ethic
- Experience with network terminology and protocols
- Experience with Front Office applications is desirable

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