Job Description – Project Manager (Network Infrastructure)

Role: Project Manager – Network Infrastructure
Experience: 8–10 Years
Location: Mumbai

Employment Type: Full Time

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead a multi-country APAC Network Refresh Program involving Cisco and Arista infrastructure modernization. The Project Manager will be responsible for governance, stakeholder management, deployment planning, RAID management, maintenance window coordination, executive reporting, and successful delivery of multiple migration waves.

Key Responsibilities

Project Governance
Establish project governance.
Drive communication plans.
Conduct Steering Committee meetings.
Manage stakeholder expectations.

Maintain RACI Matrix.

Planning
Prepare master project schedule.
Plan migration waves.
Resource planning.
Capacity planning.

Risk-based deployment sequencing.

Delivery Management
Coordinate network engineers.
Track deployment progress.
Ensure milestone completion.
Manage project timeline.

Monitor KPIs.

Change Management
Coordinate CAB approvals.
Schedule maintenance windows.
Track implementation approvals.

Manage production changes.

RAID Management

Maintain and monitor: Risks

Actions
Issues
Dependencies

Drive timely mitigation and resolution.

Vendor Coordination
Cisco TAC
Arista TAC
Remote Hands
Internal Engineering Teams

Data Center Teams

Reporting

Prepare:



Daily Status Reports

Weekly Governance Reports
Executive Dashboards
Project Health Reports
Wave Completion Reports

Closure Reports

Documentation
Project Plan
Runbooks
Migration Tracker
Fleet Execution Tracker
Lessons Learned

Closure Report

Required Skills

Project Management
Infrastructure Project Delivery
Network Migration Programs
PMO Governance
Waterfall / Agile Delivery
Risk Management

Change Management

Networking Knowledge

Strong understanding of: Cisco Nexus

Cisco Catalyst
Arista Switches
Data Center Networks
Routing & Switching
Maintenance Windows
Hardware Refresh

Network Migration

Tools
Microsoft Project
Jira
Excel
Power Point
Service Now

Confluence

Stakeholder Management

Experience working with: Executive Leadership

Infrastructure Teams
Network Architects
Data Center Teams
OEM Vendors

Global Delivery Teams

Required Experience
8+ years of IT Infrastructure Project Management.
Minimum 5 years managing large Network/Data Center transformation projects.
Experience leading global infrastructure deployments.
Solid governance and executive communication skills.

Experience managing geographically distributed teams and maintenance window execution.

Preferred Certifications
PMP (Preferred)
PRINCE2 (Preferred)
PMI-ACP (Preferred)
ITIL Foundation

CCNA/CCNP (Preferred)

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