Data Centre Project Manager

Plenty of PMs say they’ve “done a data centre migration.” Usually that means they were in the room while someone else moved the servers.

This role needs the person who was holding the cutover runbook at 2am.

The short version A large, highly regulated Australian organisation is consolidating its data centres and needs a seasoned Senior Project Manager to own the program from start to finish. You’ll report to the Program Director and run the whole thing: discovery, design, build, migration waves, cutover and decommissioning, through to handing a secure estate back to operations.

It’s a day rate contract, ideally Sydney based on a hybrid basis.

What you’d actually be doing
Working out what’s really running before anyone commits to dates, then turning that into a credible plan
Owning the integrated schedule, budget, resourcing, dependencies, RAID and change control
Sequencing migration waves across servers, storage, network, applications, cloud and DR
Planning high-risk cutovers properly, with rehearsals, contingency and a rollback point everyone has agreed in advance
Holding vendors and integrators to what they signed up for,



including deliverables, acceptance and commercial outcomes
Keeping executives and steering committees informed with decisions, not just status colours
Making sure operations are ready, trained and supported before you hand over the keys

What you’ll need
10 to 15 years delivering complex infrastructure programs
At least one major data centre consolidation, relocation or migration that you led, not just contributed to
Real experience coordinating multi-vendor delivery and system integrators
Robust commercial, financial and risk discipline
The ability to explain a difficult trade-off to a senior executive in plain English
PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner or similar

Why bother

This is a full-lifecycle consolidation with real executive backing and a real deadline. Minimal disruption to the business is the success measure, so it suits someone who takes service continuity personally and enjoys the satisfaction of switching off the last rack.

If that sounds like your kind of program, please send me a message or your CV.

📌 Data Centre Project Manager Sydney
🏢 RONIN Dynamics
📍 Sydney