Sr Infra Program Manager – Endpoint & Cloud Modernization

Cengage Group; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 102,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

None

Job summary

Cengage Group seeks an experienced Infrastructure Program Manager to lead complex infrastructure initiatives from planning through implementation and transition to operations. You will coordinate engineering, cybersecurity, networking, cloud, identity, endpoint, application, service management, business, and vendor teams across a major endpoint migration.

You will guide multi-disciplinary teams, manage dependencies, and deliver governance and executive reporting to ensure successful transition

Qualifications

• 8+ years of technology program management experience with infrastructure delivery.
• Experience leading complex enterprise infrastructure implementations, migrations, or modernization.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure dependencies across networking, cloud, identity, cybersecurity, applications, and endpoint technologies.
• Strong project planning, RAID management, dependency management, governance, and executive communication.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multiple technical workstreams and drive accountability without direct authority.
• Experience managing vendors, systems integrators, or managed service providers.

Responsibilities

• Lead infrastructure projects across planning, design, implementation, migration, stabilization, and closure.
• Develop and manage integrated project plans, milestones, critical paths, resources, and dependencies.
• Manage scope, schedule, budget, risks, issues, assumptions, and decisions.
• Coordinate cross-functional technical teams and vendors to drive delivery and resolve blockers.
• Lead infrastructure modernization and migration initiatives across endpoint, cloud, networking, identity, cybersecurity, and enterprise platforms.
• Manage endpoint migration activities including pilots, rollout waves, application readiness, security dependencies, user readiness, and support transition.
• Establish governance, project cadence, escalation paths, and go/no-go criteria.
• Maintain concise executive reporting, Red/Amber/Green (RAG) status, and delivery dashboards.
• Ensure operational readiness through support models, documentation, knowledge transfer, and transition to steady-state operations.

Skills

Program management

Infrastructure delivery

Cross-functional leadership

RAID management

Vendor management

Executive communication

Multiple workstreams

Vendor relations

Education

PMP certification

Tools

Smartsheet

Jira

Microsoft Intune

Windows Autopilot

Job description

Cengage Group seeks an experienced Infrastructure Program Manager to lead complex infrastructure initiatives from planning through implementation and transition to operations. You will coordinate engineering, cybersecurity, networking, cloud, identity, endpoint, application, service management, business, and vendor teams across a major endpoint migration.

You will guide multi-disciplinary teams, manage dependencies, and deliver governance and executive reporting to ensure successful transition