Role: Network Service Delivery Manager – Expert
Location: New York, USA
Duration: long term contract
Work model
Day-one onsite; hybrid with 3 days onsite per week.
Engagement: T&M consulting assignment. Individual start date and duration to be confirmed.
Role overview
Coordinate network migration and deployment across infrastructure, application, and operations teams. Drive execution, governance, risk management, change coordination, and service readiness for transition into production support.
Experience
7–10 years of Network Infrastructure Service Delivery Management.
Required qualifications
- Experience managing network infrastructure delivery and cross-team dependencies.
- Strong operational governance, risk management, stakeholder communication, and change-management capability.
- Experience coordinating vendors and ensuring service readiness and support transition.
Key responsibilities
- Maintain the network workstream plan, milestones, dependencies, owners, and readiness checkpoints.
- Coordinate design, implementation, connectivity testing, and application network integration activities.
- Track network risks, issues, decisions, and delivery actions; escalate blockers with clear impact and recovery plans.
- Coordinate firewall/network-flow approvals, vendor dependencies, and network changes through enterprise processes.
- Lead network delivery reviews and communicate progress, risks, and decisions to the program team.
- Coordinate production network readiness, cutover activities, monitoring coverage, and rollback preparation with technical owners.
- Ensure documentation, support ownership, knowledge transfer, and service acceptance are complete for production transition.
- Network delivery plan, dependency tracker, RAID log, and status reporting.
- Change/readiness records and coordinated cutover activities.
- Network service transition and operational acceptance package.
Desired qualifications
- Experience managing network migration or transformation within banking or other regulated enterprises.
- Experience coordinating cloud and on-premises network teams, vendors, change approvals, and production transitions.
- Ability to manage dependencies, service readiness, stakeholder reporting, cutover coordination, and operational acceptance.
Preferred certifications
- One or more of the following certifications is desirable. Certifications are preferred, not mandatory, and do not replace demonstrated hands‑on experience.
- Project Management Professional (PMP).
- ITIL Foundation.
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, as supporting cloud knowledge.