Duties of the Senior Project Manager

• Lead the planning, governance and delivery of the Department's Azure cloud migration project. 
• Develop and maintain the Project Management Plan, schedule, budget, RAID register, benefits realisation plan and other project artefacts. 
• Develop and implement transition, cutover, operational readiness and legacy infrastructure decommissioning plans. 
• Manage project risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies.
• Ensure compliance with Australian Government security requirements.
• Manage procurement activities and vendor performance where required.
• Develop and maintain project financial forecasts and budgets. 
• Apply FinOps principles to support effective cloud financial management.
• Deliver the project through to formal closure.

Manage delivery of the following key project outcomes: 

• Migration of workloads from the Department's SAN to Azure. 
• Migration and rationalisation of data to reduce legacy data holdings. 
• Delivery of major security patching activities.
• Windows Server 2016 uplift and associated SQL Server migration. 
• Modernisation of operational monitoring capability, including replacing SolarWinds. 

Skills and Experience - Senior Project Manager:

Technical skills

• Experience delivering Azure cloud migration projects; strong understanding of Azure infrastructure and hybrid cloud environments; practical expertise in FinOps, cloud cost optimisation and forecasting; experience with storage migration, Windows Server and SQL Server migration; Essential Eight, ISM and Government ICT security frameworks.

Essential Criteria

• Experience delivering large-scale cloud migration projects in complex enterprise or government ICT environments.
• Experience managing Microsoft Azure infrastructure migration programs from initiation through to operational transition and project closure.
• Expertise applying FinOps principles.
• Experience managing project budgets, schedules, risks, dependencies and vendor performance.

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of the ISM, Essential Eight and Whole of Government ICT policies.
• Experience delivering Windows Server, SQL Server and enterprise storage migration projects.
• Experience implementing cloud operational monitoring solutions and infrastructure modernisation initiatives.
• Microsoft Azure certifications.

How to Apply