Project Manager

When you join AIS, you're joining a mission-driven team that's passionate about making a difference. You'll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.

• Employee Ownership: Your contributions directly impact the company's success, and you share in its achievements.

• Continuous Learning: Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.

• Inclusive Culture: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone's voice is valued.

• Mission-Driven Work: Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.

At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.

• Core Knowledge & Skills: Demonstrates strong command of project management standards, contract compliance, and delivery excellence. Skilled in risk management, financial tracking, and project planning.

• Work & Complexity: Leads projects from initiation to close, manages deliverables, tracks milestones, and ensures client acceptance. Proactively identifies and addresses risks and issues.

• Quality & Independence: Ensures high-quality outcomes, operates with autonomy, and drives continuous improvement in project delivery.

• Teamwork & Communication: Builds positive relationships with clients, delivery teams, and stakeholders. Coaches and mentors team members to achieve project success.

• Consulting & Engagement: Provides expert guidance on project management practices, promotes client satisfaction, and identifies opportunities for process and service enhancements.

Position Summary
We are seeking a Project Manager with a strong technical foundation in Azure infrastructure to lead the planning, coordination, and execution of complex cloud deployment initiatives.This role is responsible for managing cross-functional project teams delivering Azure-based infrastructure solutions, including landing zones, networking, identity, security, governance, migration, and platform services.The ideal candidate combines disciplined project delivery leadership with enough technical depth to engage architects, engineers, security teams, and customer stakeholders effectively.

This individual will serve as thecentral pointof coordination across business, technical, and operational workstreams to ensure Azure infrastructure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned to security, compliance, and operational readiness requirements.

• Lead end-to-end delivery of Azure infrastructure deployment projects, from initiation through planning, execution, testing, cutover, and transition to operations.

• Develop andmaintainintegrated project plans, schedules, milestones, RAID logs, dependency tracking, and executive status reporting.

• Coordinate cross-functional teams including cloud architects, Azure engineers, network engineers, identity engineers, security teams, operations teams, and third-party vendors.

• Drive deployment planning for core Azure infrastructure components such as landing zones, subscriptions, management groups, virtual networks, connectivity, identity integration, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery.

• Translate technical delivery activities into clear project plans, timelines, work packages, and stakeholdercommunications.

• Manage project resources to standards.

• Facilitate project-related meetings, such as design reviews, readiness reviews, risk reviews, and management updates.

• Identifydelivery risks, environmental constraints, and interdependencies early, and drive mitigation plans to resolution.

• Ensure alignment with enterprise security, compliance, and operational standards, especially for regulated or mission-critical environments.

• Partnerwith technical leads tovalidatedeploymentreadiness, testing completion, cutover planning, and support transition requirements.

• Track deliverables, action items, and decisions tomaintainexecution discipline and accountability across teams.

• Support customer and leadership communications with concise,accuratereporting on progress, blockers, financials, and next steps.

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field.

• 3+ years of project management experience leading enterprise IT infrastructure or cloud transformation initiatives.

• 3+ years of experience managing Azure infrastructure deployment projects.

• Strong understanding of Azure core infrastructure services, including:

• Azure landing zones

• Virtual networks, routing, and connectivity

• Identity and access management with Microsoft Entra ID

• Subscription and governance models

• Security controls and policy enforcement

• Monitoring, backup, and resiliency concepts

• Demonstratedexperience managing technical delivery teams in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.

• Experience developing andmaintainingdetailed project schedules, resource plans, RAID logs, status reports, and executive briefings.

• Strong understanding of project delivery methodologies including waterfall, agile, and hybrid delivery models.

• Proven ability to manage scope, schedule, budget, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and management audiences.

• PMP,PgMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum Master, or similar project management certification.

• Microsoft Azure certification such as Azure Administrator, Azure Solutions Architect, or Azure Fundamentals.

• Experience withinfrastructure-as-codeand DevOps-enabled delivery models using tools such as Terraform, Bicep, Azure DevOps, or GitHub.

• Experience supporting Azure migrations involving servers, applications, storage, or virtual desktop environments.

• Familiarity with enterprise governance and security frameworks such as Zero Trust, NIST, CIS, or Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework.

• Experience in regulated environments such as government, defense, healthcare, or financial services.

• Experience managing operational readiness andtransition-to-supportactivities for cloud services.

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