Technical Project Manager

Optomi; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Optomi is seeking a Technical Project Manager with deep fluency in AWS, DevOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code to drive delivery across cloud engineering, security, compliance, and operations. You will manage end-to-end plans, coordinate multi-team dependencies, and provide executive-ready status reporting from a remote work model aligned to EST or CST hours.

The role emphasizes translating technical work into credible plans, maintaining backlog alignment, and leading governance and

Qualifications

• Experience managing cloud, infrastructure, software, DevOps, or platform-delivery projects.
• Experience with Microsoft Project, Jira, and delivery reporting.
• Technical knowledge of AWS services, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD.
• Ability to translate engineering work into executable plans without acting as solution architect.
• Ability to influence without direct authority across teams, partners, and vendors.

Responsibilities

• Baseline and maintain end-to-end project plan for 12 months in MS Project.
• Develop WBS, milestones, dependencies, critical path, resource assumptions, constraints, and forecast dates.
• Integrate AWS platform, networking, identity, security, ITSM, compliance, testing, migration into schedule.
• Run weekly plan reviews, reconcile progress, manage schedule changes.
• Maintain alignment among Jira epics, features, stories, tasks, releases and MS Project schedule.
• Partner with technical owners to ensure work is defined, estimated, sequenced, and statused.
• Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, dependency reviews, delivery reviews, and action follow-ups.
• Maintain dashboards and reporting views showing delivery health.
• Coordinate IaC delivery lifecycle across development, stage, and production environments.
• Coordinate Terraform, CloudFormation, and related automation releases.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Schedule management

Cross-team coordination

Communication

Influence without authority

Tools

Microsoft Project

Jira

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD

GitHub

Job description

AWS, DevOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code Delivery

Remote - EST or CST Hours

Position Summary

The Technical Project Manager provides dedicated, hands-on project leadership, including Microsoft Project scheduling, Jira execution tracking, RAID management, dependency coordination, delivery governance, and executive-ready status reporting. The Technical Project Manager will work closely with cloud engineering, architecture, security, compliance, identity, networking, operations, product, and integration teams to translate technical work into a credible plan, maintain alignment between the plan and the backlog, and drive commitments through completion. The individual must be technically fluent in AWS, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD delivery, but does not replace engineering or architecture ownership.

Responsibilities

• Create, baseline, and maintain the end-to-end project plan in Microsoft Project across a rolling 12-month horizon.
• Develop and maintain the work breakdown structure, milestones, dependencies, critical path, resource assumptions, constraints, and forecast dates.
• Integrate AWS platform, networking, identity, security, observability, ITSM, compliance, testing, migration, operational-readiness, and customer-readiness activities into one schedule.
• Run weekly plan reviews, reconcile actual progress, identify variance, and manage schedule changes through visible change control.
• Maintain alignment among Jira capabilities, epics, features, stories, tasks, releases, and the Microsoft Project schedule.
• Partner with technical owners to ensure work is sufficiently defined, assigned, estimated, sequenced, dependency-linked, and statused.
• Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint or iteration planning, dependency reviews, delivery reviews, retrospectives, and action follow-through.
• Maintain dashboards and reporting views that show delivery health without creating competing sources of truth.
• Coordinate execution of Infrastructure-as-Code delivery lifecycle across development, stage, and production environments.
• Manage project workflow for Terraform, AWS Landing Zone Accelerator, CloudFormation, account provisioning, reusable modules, pipeline factories, release controls, and related automation.
• Facilitate technical working sessions and release-readiness reviews while keeping design and engineering decisions with accountable technical leaders.
• Lead project kickoffs, weekly delivery reviews, cross-team dependency sessions, milestone reviews, release-readiness reviews, and executive status updates.
• Provide concise reporting on accomplishments, upcoming work, critical path, risks, decisions, milestones, and recovery actions.
• Coordinate with internal engineering teams, AWS Professional Services or other partners, vendors, and dependent platform teams.
• Maintain project artifacts in approved Microsoft 365, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, or equivalent repositories.
• Build trust across teams and maintain constructive execution discipline during ambiguity, conflict, or schedule pressure.
• Ensure the project plan includes required documentation, runbooks, as-built artifacts, control evidence, approvals, testing, training, handoffs, and acceptance criteria.

Required Qualifications

• Progressive experience managing cloud, infrastructure, software, DevOps, or platform-delivery projects in an enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated ownership of detailed, multi-team project schedules in Microsoft Project, including dependencies, baselines, critical path, resource assumptions, and variance management.
• Strong Jira experience managing epics, stories, workflow, dependencies, releases, dashboards, and delivery reporting.
• Working technical knowledge of AWS services, AWS GovCloud concepts, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, source control, testing, and release management.
• Ability to translate engineering work into executable plans without attempting to act as the solution architect or technical lead.
• Ability to influence without direct authority and drive follow-through across internal teams, partners, and vendors.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering AWS GovCloud, public-sector, defense, or other regulated cloud environments.
• Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, CodePipeline/CodeBuild, GitHub or GitLab, reusable IaC modules, and environment-promotion controls.
• Experience coordinating cloud networking, identity, security, logging/observability, ITSM, compliance, migration, and operations workstreams.
• PMP or equivalent project-management certification; AWS, DevOps, Agile, SAFe, Scrum, or security certifications are beneficial.
• Experience with Power BI, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Confluence, and approved AI-enabled productivity tools.