Data Centre Project Manager

Ronin Dynamics Pty Ltd; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ronin Dynamics Pty Ltd in Sydney seeks a seasoned Senior Project Manager to own a full-lifecycle data centre consolidation program from discovery to handover. You will report to the Program Director and run discovery, design, build, migration waves, cutover and decommissioning with a focus on minimal business disruption.

The role requires 10–15 years delivering complex infrastructure programs, proven data centre consolidations, and strong multi-vendor coordination.

Qualifications

• 10 to 15 years delivering complex infrastructure programs.
• Led at least one major data centre consolidation, relocation or migration.
• Experience coordinating multi-vendor delivery and system integrators.
• Strong commercial, financial and risk discipline.
• Able to explain trade-offs to senior executives in plain English.

Responsibilities

• Develop credible plan from discovery to handover.
• Own integrated schedule, budget, resourcing, dependencies, RAID and change control.
• Sequence migration waves across servers, storage, network, applications, cloud and DR.
• Plan high-risk cutovers with rehearsals, contingency and rollback.
• Hold vendors and integrators to deliverables and commercial outcomes.
• Keep executives informed with decisions, not just status colours.
• Ensure operations are ready, trained and supported before handover.

Skills

Multi-vendor coordination

Infrastructure program delivery

Budget & risk management

Executive communication

PM frameworks (PMP/PRINCE2)

Education

PMP or PRINCE2 Practitioner certification

Job description

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 stable estate back to operations.

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

What you'll 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
• Strong 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.