Senior Project Manager - F5 & Infrastructure (Onsite London)

Pace-XL Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

AVIVA workplace pension scheme

The Electric Car Scheme

Cycle to Work Scheme

APM Corporate Partner benefits

ADS Group Reward benefits

One paid day off to volunteer

Enhanced Maternity Leave, Paternity  —

Job summary

Pace is seeking a Project Manager – F5 / Infrastructure / Network (Senior Consultant) to join our City of London onsite team three days per week. You will lead a critical F5 load balancing programme within a complex enterprise environment, ensuring governance, risk management and successful handover.

Starting ASAP for a 6‑month duration with potential extension, the role offers a salary of £75,000–£90,000 dependent on experience and a consultancy‑level rewards package in a dynamic, high‑growth

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Infrastructure or Networks Project Manager delivering complex technical change in enterprise environments
• Demonstrable experience delivering F5 BIG-IP or comparable application delivery and load balancing initiatives
• Experience coordinating configuration audits, remediation plans and optimisation activity across complex infrastructure estates
• Experience delivering infrastructure and office technology integration in a merger, acquisition or organisational transformation context
• Strong project governance discipline, including planning, RAID management, dependency management, reporting and decision tracking
• Confident stakeholder manager, able to work effectively with senior sponsors, architects, engineers, service owners, business users and third‑party suppliers
• Strong understanding of infrastructure delivery dependencies across networks, security, identity, end‑user technology, applications and service management
• Experienced in planning and controlling testing, cutover, service transition, operational handover and business continuity activity
• Delivery‑focused and comfortable managing multiple parallel workstreams in a fast‑paced, ambiguous and technically complex environment
• Proactive, pragmatic and solutions‑focused, with the judgement to raise issues early and drive clear ownership through to resolution

Responsibilities

• Define, agree and manage the delivery approach, integrated plan, milestones, dependencies and resources for infrastructure and network workstreams
• Lead delivery of the F5 load balancing programme, including discovery, design coordination, implementation planning, testing, cutover and service transition
• Coordinate the audit and optimisation of existing F5 configurations, translating findings into prioritised remediation and improvement activity
• Manage the integration of supporting office systems following a merger, ensuring delivery is aligned with business, technology and operational priorities
• Work closely with infrastructure, network, security, architecture, service management and business teams to coordinate delivery across interdependent workstreams
• Maintain robust project governance, including project plans, RAID logs, decision logs, dependency tracking, status reporting and escalation routes
• Identify, assess and actively manage delivery risks, issues and dependencies, with particular focus on service resilience and business continuity
• Coordinate third-party suppliers and internal technical teams, ensuring commitments, deliverables and acceptance criteria are clearly defined and tracked
• Plan and oversee testing, implementation, cutover, transition to service and operational handover activities
• Provide clear, concise updates to senior stakeholders, translating technical delivery detail into business impact, decisions and actions

Job description

Pace is seeking a Project Manager – F5 / Infrastructure / Network (Senior Consultant) to join our City of London onsite team three days per week. You will lead a critical F5 load balancing programme within a complex enterprise environment, ensuring governance, risk management and successful handover.

Starting ASAP for a 6‑month duration with potential extension, the role offers a salary of £75,000–£90,000 dependent on experience and a consultancy‑level rewards package in a dynamic, high‑growth