Job Description

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Data Centre Project Manager

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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.

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

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The short version

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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 run the whole thing: discovery, design, build, migration waves, cutover and decommissioning, through to handing a secure estate back to operations.

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

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What you’d actually be doing

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



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

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

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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.

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

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📌 Data Centre Project Manager (Sydney)
🏢 RONIN Dynamics
📍 Sydney