Data Centre Project Manager

NineTech; Netherlands; Hybrid; EUR 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

NineTech, a Netherlands-based company, seeks an experienced Infrastructure/Data Centre Project Manager to deliver high-availability infrastructure projects across a hybrid organization. The role requires strong technical understanding, stakeholder management, and the ability to drive delivery in a fast-paced environment.

You will lead complex data centre migrations, coordinate global teams, and ensure on-time delivery while maintaining security and compliance across compute, storage, network,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of project delivery management experience.
• Minimum 5 years supporting and/or delivering field services for hardware and software products.
• Strong knowledge of data centre environments (servers, networking, storage, cabling, power, cooling, physical security).
• Proven track record managing data centre migrations or large-scale infrastructure rollouts.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and customer-facing skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with internal teams, vendors, and customers.
• Understand and guide technical architectures, facilitate decisions on solutions.
• Ensure requirements and documentation meet standards and are delivered on schedule.
• Develop and present technical solutions to customers and senior stakeholders.
• Lead project communications, status reporting, and reviews.
• Oversee data centre installations, migrations, and infrastructure upgrades.
• Manage risks, issues, and dependencies across compute, storage, network, and facilities.
• Coordinate cabling, rack-and-stack, power provisioning, cooling, and readiness activities.
• Plan and execute change windows, maintenance events, and deployment schedules.
• Ensure data centre security and access control compliance.
• Track procurement, delivery, asset lifecycle, and vendor activities.
• Report and escalate issues through proper channels.
• Manage change and release communications to customers and stakeholders.
• Create operational playbooks and handover materials.

Skills

Project delivery management

Stakeholder management

Data centre knowledge

Communication skills

Multitasking under supervision

Education

Engineering or Computer Science degree

Job description

Netherlands/Remote

We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure / Data Centre Project Manager to deliver complex, high-availability infrastructure projects across our enterprise environment. This role requires strong technical understanding, exceptional stakeholder management, and the ability to drive delivery in a fast-paced, hybrid working model.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain strong working relationships with internal teams, vendors, and external customers.
• Understand high-level and low-level technical architectures, facilitating technical discussions and guiding decisions on the most appropriate solutions.
• Ensure all project requirements and documentation meet company standards and are delivered on schedule.
• Develop and present comprehensive technical solutions to customers and senior stakeholders.
• Lead project communications, including conference calls, technical reviews, and status reporting.
• Oversee and coordinate complex data centre installations, migrations, and infrastructure upgrades.
• Manage risks, issues, and dependencies across compute, storage, network, and facilities components.
• Coordinate cabling, rack‑and‑stack, power provisioning, cooling requirements, and physical data centre readiness activities.
• Work closely with data centre operations teams to plan and execute change windows, maintenance events, and deployment schedules.
• Ensure compliance with data centre security, access control procedures, and operational standards.
• Track hardware procurement, delivery schedules, asset lifecycle, and vendor service activities.
• Report and escalate all observed problems through appropriate operational channels.
• Manage change and release communications to customers and internal stakeholders.
• Create clear and concise operational playbooks, technical documentation, and handover materials.
• Flexibility to work irregular hours when required (e.g., maintenance windows, go-lives).

Skills & Experience

• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of project delivery management experience.
• Minimum 5 years supporting and/or delivering field services for hardware and software products.
• Strong knowledge of data centre environments, including servers, networking, storage, cabling, power, cooling and physical security.
• Proven track record managing data centre migrations, deployments, or large‑scale infrastructure rollouts.
• Experienced in coordinating global, cross-functional technical teams.
• Excellent communication, presentation and customer-facing skills.
• Strong organisational ability with the capacity to multitask and operate with minimal supervision.