Project Manager

Job Title: Project Manager

Experience: 1–3 Years

Domain: IT Project / Program Management

Location: Kolkata

Mandatory Requirement: Candidates must be proficient in the local Kolkata language (Bengali). Strong communication skills are required.

Key Responsibilities

1. Manage end-to-end IT infrastructure and cloud projects, from initiation and planning through execution, monitoring, and closure.
2. Coordinate with internal technical teams, customers, vendors, and other stakeholders to ensure timely project delivery.
3. Prepare and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, resource allocation, and project documentation.
4. Monitor project progress, identify risks, dependencies, and issues, and ensure timely resolution.
5. Conduct regular project review meetings and provide periodic status reports to management and customers.
6. Manage project scope, timelines, budgets, change requests, and stakeholder expectations.
7. Ensure adherence to agreed SLAs, project deliverables, quality standards, and operational requirements.
8. Drive customer communication, escalation management, and stakeholder coordination.
9. Coordinate infrastructure deployments, cloud migrations, data centre activities, and technology upgrades.
10. Ensure proper project handover to operations/support teams, including documentation, KT, and closure reports.
11. Track project financials, resource utilization, and delivery milestones.
12. Proactively identify improvement opportunities and drive effective project governance.

Cloud Technologies:

• AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Cloud migration, provisioning, and deployment concepts.
• Compute, storage, networking, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.

IT Infrastructure / Data Centre:

• Servers, storage (SAN/NAS), networking, firewalls, and virtualization.
• VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, or other virtualization platforms.
• Windows and Linux operating systems.
• Data centre setup, rack deployment, server installation, and network connectivity.
• Backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity concepts.

Project Management Tools:

• MS Project, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Jira.
• Project plans, RAID logs, risk registers, and status reports.
• Knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid project management methodologies.

Required Skills

• Strong project planning, execution, and coordination skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Customer and stakeholder management.
• Risk, issue, and escalation management.
• Analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
• Strong documentation and reporting skills.