Who is HelloKindred?

HelloKindred are specialists in staffing marketing, creative and technology roles, offering a range of talent solutions that can be delivered on-site, remotely or hybrid.

Our vision is to make work accessible and people’s lives better. We do this by disrupting traditional employment barriers – connecting ambitious talent to flexible opportunities with trusted brands.

Anticipated Contract End Date/Length: 01 October, 2026 - 30 April, 2027
Work set up: Hybrid (3 days onsite is mandatory)

Our client in the Information Technology and Services industry is looking for an experienced Infrastructure Technical Project Delivery Manager to lead the delivery of large-scale virtualisation, infrastructure transformation, and migration programmes across global technology landscape.

The successful candidate will be responsible for planning, governing, and successfully executing complex infrastructure projects involving server virtualisation, data centre transformations, cloud adoption, operating system upgrades, platform remediation, and application migrations. Working across multiple technology domains and business functions, the successful candidate will ensure projects are delivered safely, securely, within budget, and in compliance with the organisation's regulatory and risk management standards.

The role requires strong technical knowledge, exceptional stakeholder management skills, and a proven track record of delivering complex infrastructure initiatives within enterprise-scale environments.

What you will do:

Project Delivery & Leadership

• Lead end-to-end delivery of infrastructure transformation projects from initiation through to implementation and operational handover.
• Manage the delivery of virtualisation, migration, cloud adoption, and infrastructure modernisation initiatives.
• Develop and maintain project plans, RAID logs, delivery roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, and governance artefacts.
• Ensure successful delivery against agreed scope, budget, timelines, quality standards, and business outcomes.
• Drive proactive management of risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Coordinate project resources across infrastructure, engineering, architecture, security, operations, and vendor teams.
• Facilitate project governance forums, steering committees, and executive reporting.

Technical Infrastructure Delivery

• Lead infrastructure migration activities including:
  - VMware and hypervisor migrations
  - Server modernisation programmes
  - Data centre exit and consolidation initiatives
  - Cloud migration and transformation projects
  - Operating system upgrades and refresh programmes
  - Storage and network infrastructure migrations
• Coordinate technical readiness assessments, migration planning, testing, deployment, and business validation activities.
• Ensure technical solutions align with enterprise architecture, operational standards, and cybersecurity requirements.
• Support migration wave planning and execution across multiple applications and business services.

Stakeholder Management

• Build strong relationships with senior business and technology stakeholders.
• Act as the primary point of contact for project delivery across internal teams and external suppliers.
• Facilitate collaboration between architects, engineers, service managers, risk functions, and business representatives.
• Present project status, risks, delivery metrics, and decisions to senior leadership audiences.

Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Ensure adherence to the organisation's project management standards, control frameworks, and governance processes.
• Manage project financials, budgets, forecasts, and resource plans.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, audit, data protection, resiliency, and security requirements.
• Support change management processes, implementation reviews, and post-project lessons learned activities.

Vendor & Third-Party Management

• Manage infrastructure vendors, system integrators, and delivery partners.
• Track supplier performance against agreed deliverables and SLAs.
• Escalate and resolve commercial, technical, and delivery issues where necessary.

• Degree or equivalent practical experience in Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Project management qualification such as:
  - PRINCE2 Practitioner
  - PMP
  - Agile Practitioner
  - MSP

Desirable:

• VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
• ITIL Foundation or higher
• Cloud certifications (Azure, AWS, GCP)
• SAFe or Agile certifications
• Experience within banking, financial services, or other highly regulated industries.
• Experience delivering:
• Data centre migration programmes
• Cloud transformation initiatives
• Application migration projects
• Infrastructure refresh and remediation programmes
• Resilience and disaster recovery initiatives
• Working knowledge of DevOps, automation, and infrastructure-as-code capabilities.

Essential experience:

• Significant experience delivering large-scale infrastructure and technical transformation projects.
• Proven experience managing virtualisation and migration programmes within enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of:
  - VMware vSphere
  - Hyper-V
  - Virtualisation platforms
  - Windows and Linux server environments
  - Storage technologies
  - Enterprise networking
  - Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS and/or GCP)
• Experience managing cross-functional technical teams operating across multiple regions.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver complex infrastructure initiatives within controlled and regulated environments.
• Strong stakeholder management experience with senior technology and business leaders.
• Experience managing project budgets, resource plans, and third-party suppliers.

Technical skills:

• VMware vSphere and associated migration technologies
• Cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Windows Server and Linux platforms
• Storage and backup technologies
• Enterprise networking concepts
• Infrastructure monitoring and operational tooling
• Service management principles (ITIL)
• Project management methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid)
• RAID management and governance reporting
• Financial and resource management
   

Candidates must be legally authorized to live and work in the country where the position is based, without requiring employer sponsorship.

HelloKindred is committed to fair, transparent, and inclusive hiring practices. We assess candidates based on skills, experience, and role-related requirements.

We appreciate your interest in this opportunity. While we review every application carefully, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

HelloKindred is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.