Description
Position Details:
Job Title: Infrastructure and Cloud Project Manager Job Type: Full-time Location: Hybrid – Bethesda, MD (2 days onsite per week)
Dynanet Corporation Overview:
Dynanet started with a focus on IT infrastructure and operations, helping organizations enhance their networks and overcome the limitations of 1990s technology. From strengthening communication channels to introducing innovative ways to collaborate and share information, Dynanet played a crucial role in shaping the early stages of digital transformation. The company’s efforts helped organizations build the very fabric of connectivity that now powers our modern world. Over the last three decades, Dynanet has grown into a trusted partner for organizations looking to innovate boldly and transform seamlessly. While technology continues to evolve and unlock new opportunities, for nearly 30 years, Dynanet remains committed to delivering cutting-edge solutions that drive lasting change for its customers. Through agility, foresight, and an unwavering dedication to excellence, Dynanet continues to empower organizations to thrive in a rapidly changing digital landscape. Our story is more than just a story of technology – it’s a story of vision, growth, and transformation that has shaped the past and continues to pave the way for the future.
About the Role:
The role works closely with the Deputy Program Manager, Infrastructure Team Lead, and Cloud Lead to translate approved strategy into well-planned, coordinated, and successfully delivered technical projects. This position emphasizes hands-on project execution, technical coordination, and implementation follow-through. The Project Manager develops detailed plans, organizes engineering activities, manages dependencies, resolves delivery obstacles, and maintains project-level tracking with the Project Management Office (PMO). Key areas include cloud modernization, infrastructure upgrades, migration and consolidation, and automation across the infrastructure lifecycle. The successful candidate combines practical infrastructure and cloud experience with disciplined project management. The Deputy Program Manager provides strategic alignment, technical leads guide engineering decisions and team operations, and this role drives the coordinated execution needed to achieve project outcomes.
Requirements
Roles & Responsibilities:
Project Planning and Execution
- Translate priorities established with the Deputy Program Manager and technical leads into project charters, scoped work packages, schedules, milestones, acceptance criteria, and delivery plans.
- Work with the Infrastructure Team Lead and Cloud Lead to identify engineering tasks, resource needs, dependencies, implementation sequencing, and realistic completion dates.
- Lead working sessions, track assigned actions, follow up on commitments, and address delivery barriers. Escalate resource conflicts, scope changes, and decisions affecting strategic priorities to the Deputy Program Manager.
- Maintain active coordination across infrastructure, cloud, application, security, network, and customer teams throughout planning, testing, implementation, and operational handoff.
Infrastructure Modernization Delivery
- Coordinate server, virtualization, storage, backup, recovery, and application-hosting modernization projects across on-premises and hybrid environments.
- Work with engineers on lifecycle upgrades, capacity improvements, migrations, consolidation, and decommissioning involving Windows and Linux, VMware, Nutanix, Cohesity, and related platforms.
- Organize readiness reviews, maintenance windows, change requests, testing, stakeholder communications, cutover activities, and rollback or recovery arrangements.
- Coordinate patching and vulnerability remediation initiatives where project-level planning is needed, including BigFix and WSUS improvements, remediation campaigns, and validation of completion.
Cloud Modernization and Migration
- Drive execution of approved cloud initiatives across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform as applicable, partnering with the Cloud Lead on workload assessment, migration planning, and implementation.
- Coordinate discovery of application dependencies, identity and connectivity requirements, data migration needs, security prerequisites, and operational support requirements before deployment.
- Track migration waves, engineering tasks, test results, cutover readiness, and post-migration stabilization. Resolve cross-team dependencies and verify that acceptance criteria are met before project closure.
- Support delivery in FedRAMP-authorized environments and workloads as applicable; coordinate required reviews with stakeholders and designated security providers.
- Work with the Cloud Lead to track project cost estimates, actual spending, resource utilization, and optimization actions; provide cost and schedule implications to the Deputy Program Manager and PMO.
Infrastructure Automation and Technical Coordination
- Work with technical leads to identify and prioritize automation opportunities in provisioning, configuration management, patching, monitoring, reporting, and recovery.
- Convert automation opportunities into deliverable work packages with defined requirements, owners, test criteria, milestones, and measurable benefits.
- Facilitate implementation using tools such as PowerShell, PowerCLI, Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, and supported APIs; coordinate prerequisites, integration testing, documentation, and deployment.
- Participate directly in technical workshops, dependency analysis, readiness checks, validation, and issue resolution. Review implementation artifacts with engineers and perform technical validation within assigned authority and expertise.
- Promote version control, peer review, repeatable deployment, secure credential handling, and documented recovery procedures in automation project delivery.
PMO Coordination and Project Controls
- Maintain project schedules, action logs, risk and issue registers, dependency trackers, change records, and decision logs using PMO-approved tools and templates.
- Provide timely, evidence-based project updates covering milestones, deliverables, resource constraints, costs, and variances. Keep PMO dashboards consistent with actual engineering progress.
- Coordinate project governance reviews and required lifecycle artifacts with the PMO.
- Present project-level risks, options, and recommendations clearly; obtain decisions through the appropriate channels and track resulting actions to completion.
Implementation Readiness and Operational Handoff
- Coordinate approved change processes and security dependencies with the responsible teams; protect service continuity during implementation and escalate emerging operational risks.
- Confirm testing, documentation, monitoring, support ownership, knowledge transfer, and recovery arrangements are complete before transitioning to operations.
- Facilitate post-implementation reviews, close outstanding actions, and capture lessons learned and measured improvements for future projects.
Required Professional Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
- At least seven years of relevant IT experience, including demonstrated responsibility for managing enterprise infrastructure, cloud, or modernization projects.
- Prior hands-on experience in systems engineering, infrastructure engineering, cloud engineering, or a related technical delivery role.
- Experience managing projects from requirements and planning through implementation, production cutover, stabilization, and operational acceptance.
- Strong working knowledge of servers, virtualization, storage, backup and recovery, monitoring, identity integration, and infrastructure dependencies on network and security services.
- Practical experience delivering AWS or Microsoft Azure initiatives, including migrations, hybrid integration, or cloud service implementation.
- Experience coordinating infrastructure automation or infrastructure as code initiatives; ability to understand technical designs, scripts, configuration artifacts, and deployment workflows.
- Proficiency in project scheduling, dependency management, risk and issue tracking, change coordination, and project status reporting.
- Ability to work closely with technical leads and the PMO, organize detailed execution, resolve delivery obstacles, and communicate clearly with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
Preferred Professional Skills:
- Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM), or equivalent project management certification.
- Relevant AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, VMware, infrastructure, automation, or IT service management certifications.
- Experience with VMware, Nutanix, Cohesity, HCL BigFix, WSUS, ServiceNow, or comparable enterprise platforms.
- Experience with PowerShell, PowerCLI, Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, deployment pipelines, or API-based infrastructure integrations.
- Experience supporting federal IT programs and working with federal customers, multiple contractors, and centralized service providers.
- Familiarity with FedRAMP environments, FinOps, federal project governance, or infrastructure dependencies supporting facilities and OT/ICS systems.
Dynanet Team Requirements and Expectations:
- Possess Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Highly organized with the ability to prioritize, balance, and effectively advance multiple competing priorities in a high-volume, fast-paced environment.
- Ability to interact in a professional and collaborative manner with fellow Dynanet Teammates and the clients, and business partners that we work with.
- Ability and desire to challenge and educate yourself to support and advance IT services delivery in the Federal agencies we serve.
- Excellent judgment and creative problem-solving skills.
- Respond to team member and client requests via email, MS teams, or other communication means during core business hours.
- Active listening skills to understand clients' needs, and collaboration skills to work with other developers and designers.
Employee Benefits Overview:
- Industry Competitive Compensation
- Medical and Dental Insurance
- Paid Time Off/Holidays
- 401(k) Retirement Plans with Matching
- Paid Training
- Employee Referral Program
- Employee Development Program
