Infrastructure Project Manager

Projects are initiated by internal product teams (CDN, Cloud, Edge AI, DDoS) or by Technical Support on behalf of external customers. At this level, the PM owns more than Jira tracking: a workable plan, realistic timelines, a budget estimate prepared to the team's templates, early visibility of risks, and day-to-day follow-up with the teams involved: architects, procurement, logistics, data centre engineers, and operations. Types of projects in the team: Server and network hardware deployments for internal product demand and for external customers (dedicated hardware, managed connectivity). Capacity expansion, hardware refresh, and decommissioning. Connectivity and interconnection procurement - IP transit, cross-connects, dark fibre, wavelengths, leased lines, in coordination with the Peering team. Colocation - racks and cage space in third-party data centres. PoP build-outs at new sites and migrations between sites - usually run with support from a senior PM or the Head of IPM. What You'll Do: Project ownership Setting the project up in Jira (GI master ticket), breaking it down into tasks, and building a schedule that accounts for dependencies. Identifying key risks and dependencies at kick-off, and reviewing the plan with your manager on larger or unfamiliar projects. Tracking linked tasks across counterpart teams' Jira projects: IDS (architecture), PRO (procurement), DCI (on-site installation), HDWR (repair and replacement), and reporting on the active linked tickets, not just the master ticket. Handling day-to-day project decisions within the agreed plan, and escalating anything that affects budget, priorities between projects, or other departments. Budget estimation and approvals Preparing the cost estimate at the Initiation stage using the team's templates: breakdown by NRC / MRC and by component (colocation, leased lines, hardware, small parts), benchmarked against comparable past projects and reference cost tables. Moving the project through the approval chain and tracking approval turnaround. Reconciling budget plan versus actuals at project closure. Technical design and architecture Briefing the Infrastructure Architects team (RFS / HLD / SDD) and taking part in discussions on BoM, rack layout, power, and network. Asking architects clarifying questions and checking the design against what the project actually needs. Procurement Briefing the Procurement team (what to buy, by when, for which project) and tracking execution. Vendor negotiations are run by Procurement. Monitoring request and PO statuses, and escalating early when timelines are at risk. Logistics and delivery to site Briefing the Logistics team (what needs to go where, and by when) and tracking execution. Shipping, customs, warehousing, and delivery to the data centre are run by the Logistics team. Tracking ETAs and escalating early when delivery is at risk of slipping. On-site installation Briefing the DCIM team on equipment installation:…