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Technical Infrastructure Program Manager

Horizontal Talent · Seattle, WA · 6 days ago
On-siteProject Management$31–$64/hrContract

Responsibilities

  • Cook up end-to-end project delivery across multiple teams, ensuring work progresses smoothly from intake through completion.
  • Validate project readiness by confirming required inputs are in place before engineering acceptance.
  • Track supplier progress and proactively escalate delays or blockers to the appropriate owners.
  • Monitor automated workflows and follow up when milestones stall or dependencies are not met.
  • Prepare and submit work requests for data center field teams, including the necessary build and cabling details.
  • Manage a portfolio of concurrent projects in various stages of physical delivery and verification.
  • Cook with field teams during physical installation, troubleshooting, and issue resolution.
  • Support validation and turn-up scheduling to help ensure projects go live on time.
  • Provide clear status updates to stakeholders and surface risks, trends, and recurring issues.
  • Maintain documentation, process notes, and escalation paths to support consistent delivery.

Requirements

  • Experience coordinating cross-functional projects in a fast-moving operational environment.
  • Familiarity with data center operations, including cabling, rack positions, and physical infrastructure workflows.
  • Strong understanding of project lifecycle management and milestone tracking.
  • Able to manage multiple priorities and several concurrent workstreams at once.
  • Excellent stakeholder communication skills with the ability to keep teams aligned and informed.
  • Ability to identify blockers, triage issues, and route work to the correct team.
  • Strong documentation and reporting skills with attention to detail.
  • Comfort working with supplier and vendor dependencies in a highly coordinated setting.
  • Working knowledge of network deployment concepts and fiber/optical infrastructure.

Preferred Skills

  • Background supporting technical infrastructure, telecom, or network delivery programs.
  • Experience managing work in ticketing or workflow systems.
  • Exposure to change management within controlled maintenance windows.
  • Ability to identify patterns across projects and recommend process improvements.
  • Experience reducing escalations by improving coordination and handoff quality.
  • Formal training in project coordination, operations, or a related field.

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