Technical Project Manager

Skills :

• Proven experience coordinating complex technology transformation and migration projects in enterprise

environments.

• Experience leading the transition of workloads from VMware vSphere to Red Hat OpenShift, from planning through

execution and operational handover.

• Strong understanding of both virtualisation and container platforms, including vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, clusters,

networking and storage

• OpenShift architecture, projects/namespaces, workloads, routes, storage and security concepts
• Application dependencies, interfaces, databases, monitoring, backup and recovery requirements
• Ability to develop and maintain an integrated transition roadmap covering assessment, design, build, migration

waves, testing, cutover and decommissioning.

• Experience coordinating application, infrastructure, platform, network, storage, security, architecture and operations

teams.

• Strong dependency-management skills, ensuring that technical prerequisites, application readiness and operational

requirements are understood and tracked.

• Experience defining migration waves, prioritising workloads and coordinating migration activities with minimal

disruption to business services.

• Strong understanding of migration planning, including Workload discovery and classification; Application and

infrastructure dependency mapping; Compatibility and readiness assessments; Capacity and performance planning;

Security and compliance requirements; Cutover, rollback and recovery planning

• Proven ability to manage project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and decisions, with clear escalation where

required.

• Experience coordinating testing activities, including functional, integration, performance, resilience and operational-

acceptance testing.

• Strong governance and reporting skills, including preparation of status reports, steering-committee materials,

milestone tracking and management information.

• Experience managing project plans, deliverables, actions and decision logs using appropriate project-management

tools.

• Ability to coordinate change-management activities, ensuring that migration changes are assessed, approved,

scheduled and communicated in line with established processes.

• Experience planning and coordinating operational handover, including support models, documentation, monitoring,

backup, patching, incident procedures and service acceptance.

• Understanding of financial, licensing and capacity considerations associated with platform transformation and

decommissioning legacy infrastructure.

• Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills, with the ability to translate technical topics into clear

project-level decisions.

• A structured, delivery-focused and collaborative approach, with clear ownership of outcomes and the ability to drive

progress across organisational boundaries.

• Very good English-language skills, both written and spoken