Remote SRE Project Manager (Contract)

Randstad Digital Americas; Columbus (OH); Remote; USD 61,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad Digital Americas is seeking a SRE Project Manager for a contract role, remote. The candidate will lead planning, backlog refinement, and sprint execution for SRE teams, coordinating with Dev, Security, and Cloud Engineering on containerization, upgrades, and AWS changes.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree and 4+ years in technical program management with strong Jira/Confluence skills and cloud-native familiarity. Standard work hours are 9am–5pm.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in technical program management, project management, or product ownership roles in software engineering/development teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead project planning, backlog refinement, sprint execution, and post-mortem ceremonies for one or more SRE teams.
• Coordinate cross-functional alignment with Dev, Security, and Cloud Engineering partners for containerization, version upgrades, and AWS infrastructure changes.
• Proactively manage Jira hygiene and workflows-ensuring that tickets are well-defined, estimated, assigned, and properly linked to Epics, Themes, and organizational priorities.
• Track and report progress on reliability, performance, and cost-focused initiatives using dashboards, Confluence documentation, and recurring status updates.
• Facilitate regular team ceremonies and leadership reviews, keeping meetings focused, data-driven, and outcome-oriented.
• Support compliance, access control, and decommissioning efforts across cloud and on-prem systems.
• Identify patterns and areas of opportunity for automation, documentation, and tooling improvements.
• Act as a steward of engineering time-minimizing context-switching, streamlining workflows, and closing the loop on stale or duplicative work.
• Contribute to shared documentation and knowledge management across the program.
• Continuously improve team processes through retrospectives and experimentation.

Skills

Communication

Infrastructure

Technical PM

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Datadog

New Relic

PagerDuty

Job description

Randstad Digital Americas is seeking a SRE Project Manager for a contract role, remote. The candidate will lead planning, backlog refinement, and sprint execution for SRE teams, coordinating with Dev, Security, and Cloud Engineering on containerization, upgrades, and AWS changes.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree and 4+ years in technical program management with strong Jira/Confluence skills and cloud-native familiarity. Standard work hours are 9am–5pm.