Cloud Project Manager

As a Cloud Project Manager, you will own the full project lifecycle - from initiation and planning through to delivery, closure, and handover to support. You'll work closely with technical teams, suppliers, and client stakeholders, acting as the primary point of contact and ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and to budget., Project Delivery

• Lead end-to-end delivery of infrastructure and cloud projects, including cloud migrations, platform modernisation, and deployment initiatives
• Manage multiple concurrent projects of varying size and complexity
• Ensure projects follow structured, repeatable delivery processes that result in positive, referenceable customer outcomes
• Provide day-to-day leadership, direction, and motivation to project teams and suppliers

Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary client-facing contact throughout the project lifecycle
• Build and maintain strong relationships with customers across public and private sectors
• Collaborate effectively with internal engineering teams, partners, and third-party vendors
• Support customers through technical and organisational change

Planning & Governance

• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, including scope, timelines, dependencies, resources, and risk management
• Track progress against plans, proactively managing risks, issues, and dependencies
• Produce clear and regular status reporting for internal leadership and external stakeholders

Financial Management

• Own project budgets and financial performance
• Track costs, manage forecasts, and ensure delivery against commercial targets

Quality & Compliance

• Ensure all deliverables meet quality standards and comply with security and regulatory requirements
• Contribute to continuous improvement by sharing lessons learned and best practice across the delivery community

Essential Experience

• Minimum of 5 years' experience delivering complex technical projects to external customers

• Proven track record delivering infrastructure and cloud programmes, including:

• Data centre and application migrations

• Platform modernisation

• Hybrid cloud implementations

Strong understanding of traditional infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, virtualisation)

Good working knowledge of public cloud platforms such as Azure and AWS, including security, identity, and networking concepts

Strong organisational and planning skills, with experience managing scope, schedules, risks, and resources

Comfortable producing forecasts, status reports, and formal project documentation

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels

Desirable

• Previous hands-on experience in an engineering or technical role
• PRINCE2 and/or Agile / Scrum certifications
• Experience using tools such as MS Project, Excel, and PowerPoint