Cloud Project Manager - Knutsford, United Kingdom - Experis LTD

Experis LTD

Verified Company

Knutsford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Cloud Project Manager

Knutsford - Hybrid (2 days on-site)

We are actively looking to secure a Cloud Project Manager to join Experis as one of our expert consultants, delivering services to our clients.

Experis Consultancy is a Global entity with a well-established team with over 1000 consultants on assignment across 20 clients globally.

Our UK operation is growing and has very aggressive plans for expansion over the coming years. We form part of the Manpowergroup of companies that turn over $20 billion a year collectively.

Experis UK have partnerships with major clients across the UK spanning multiple industries; our approach is a very personal one, with both our clients and our own employees.

We are passionate about training, technology and career development.

The Role

Our client is looking for an experienced Cloud Project Manager to support delivery of complex cross-group strategic change in a fast-paced environment.

Experience in finance is an advantage.

Key Accountabilities

Driving the delivery of key strategic infrastructure programmes.
Leading highly complex projects requiring facilitation and collaboration across organisational functions and RAID oversight
Drive adoption of strategic infrastructure products (aPaaS, Private & Public Cloud)
Infrastructure demand planning and forecasting
Driving delivery of demand in line with requirements
Supporting appropriate solutions and designs meet resiliency and stability requirements
Proactively managing and reduce risk in the infrastructure environment, including stability, resilience, currency, and security risk
Driving financial consumption optimizations levers to create capacity creation opportunities (increase ROI)
Supporting change and release procedures, working with infrastructure, development and RTB teams

Key Knowledge and Experience

Extensive knowledge and practical experience of project planning and management, and strategic change planning and monitoring, (supported by relevant qualifications) across multi delivery methodologies.
Experience as an IT Project Manager based in Cloud Services.
Infrastructure background and expertise
Excellent communication, interpersonal and stakeholder management skills. Able to create a trusted advisor relationship with the stakeholders
Ability to execute quickly and effectively strong influencing skills and ability to get things done in a complex matrix organisational structure
Support business prioritization & backlog management aiming to increase delivery pace, identify issue themes & work with respective technical teams to improve service maturity and delivery SLAs
Proven track record of driving continuous improvement and innovation
Excellent decisionmaking capabilities including ability to flex from strategic planning to detailed execution
Ability to drive a strategic vision and thinking and ability to carry peers and stakeholder on the change journey and perform detailed planning and execution.
Proven track record of defining and embedding controls, processes and structure

Desirable / Beneficial Experience

Finance Experience
Strong understanding of infrastructure including containerization (Kubernetes), virtual platforms, storage, DBMS, networking & distributed systems
Windows, RedHat Linux, VMWare & RedHat OpenShift technologies
Design, delivery and driving operational best practices