AWS Infrastructure Project Manager

Job Title: AWS Infrastructure Project Manager Location: Knoxville, Tennessee Type: Contract To Hire Compensation: $95,000.00 Work Model: Onsite - onsite Hours: 40.0 Security Clearance: Not specified, * Lead the delivery and coordination of complex infrastructure and cloud initiatives within a large-scale financial services environment.

• Manage multiple concurrent projects spanning AWS cloud infrastructure, databases, networking, security, production support, upgrades, migrations, and remediation efforts.
• Develop and maintain project roadmaps, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and action plans.
• Coordinate AWS, database, network, security, infrastructure, migration, upgrade, and remediation initiatives.
• Drive implementation readiness and coordinate activities across application owners, infrastructure teams, security teams, and other stakeholders.
• Identify upstream and downstream application impacts associated with infrastructure changes.
• Obtain commitments from participating teams and follow through on actions through completion.
• Identify and escalate delivery risks, resource constraints, production impacts, and schedule concerns.
• Translate technical discussions into clear business impacts, decisions, risks, and executive-level updates.
• Facilitate project meetings, working sessions, readiness reviews, and stakeholder discussions.
• Prepare project status reporting, presentations, dashboards, and remediation updates for senior management.
• Support incident and remediation coordination with a focus on minimizing production disruption.
• Provide occasional after-hours or weekend support for scheduled implementations, critical remediation, or major incidents.

• 5+ years of project management experience, with a strong background managing enterprise infrastructure, cloud, database, network, security, or production support initiatives.
• Proven experience managing multiple concurrent, time-sensitive infrastructure projects across a large enterprise.
• Working knowledge of AWS cloud environments and infrastructure concepts. Hands-on AWS engineering expertise is not required.
• Good understanding of enterprise networking, databases, infrastructure, security, and application dependencies.
• Experience building and maintaining project roadmaps and managing schedules, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, and remediation plans.
• Strong Agile/Scrum knowledge and experience working within enterprise technology delivery environments.
• Ability to assess and communicate upstream/downstream impacts of infrastructure and cloud changes.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including coordinating across multiple teams and gaining commitments without direct authority.
• Strong executive communication skills with the ability to turn complex technical discussions into clear status, risk, impact, and decision points.
• Solid experience with Excel for project tracking, reporting, and analysis.
• Strong risk and issue management skills, including timely escalation and consistent follow-through.