Senior IT Transition Project Manager - VMware to OpenShift Migration

Drive seamless transformation - orchestrate the future of cloud infrastructure!

Krakow-based opportunity with hybrid work model.

As a Senior IT Transition Project Manager, you will be working for our client, a leader in enterprise IT solutions, supporting a pivotal migration project from VMware vSphere to Red Hat OpenShift. This role is essential in shaping innovative infrastructure strategies, ensuring operational excellence, and enabling digital transformation at scale.

Your main responsibilities:

• Lead the end-to-end migration lifecycle, from discovery and planning to testing, cutover, and legacy decommissioning.
• Develop and maintain an integrated transition roadmap, coordinating activities across application, infrastructure, and security teams.
• Manage dependencies, risks, and project decisions, ensuring minimal disruption to critical business services.
• Oversee testing procedures including functional, performance, and resilience testing, ensuring quality and compliance standards are met.
• Coordinate operational handover, including support models, documentation, and incident procedures.
• Communicate progress and challenges effectively through status reports and steering-committee presentations.
• Ensure the stability, resilience, and security of new and migrated systems, aligning with high data quality standards.
• Support change-management activities, fostering collaboration with technical and business stakeholders.

You're ideal for this role if you have:

• Over 5 years of experience directing complex technology transformation and migration projects.
• Proven expertise in migrating workloads from VMware vSphere to Red Hat OpenShift.
• Strong understanding of virtualization (vSphere, ESXi, vCenter) and container platforms (OpenShift).
• Exceptional skills in developing transition plans, dependency management, and risk mitigation.
• Experience using project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow).
• Excellent communication skills in English (fluent).

It is a strong plus if you have:

• Knowledge of German language (spoken).
• Additional certifications or experience in cloud architecture or project management frameworks.

Language required for the role:

• English: Fluent command.

Eligibility to work in Europe:

• Only candidates with an existing legal right to work in the European Union will be considered for this role.

Interested? Apply now and include your CV (preferably in English) along with a statement confirming your consent to the processing and storage of your personal data.