Infrastructure Project Manager

Techstra Solutions•Pittsburgh, PA

13h•Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a highly technical Project Manager / Technical Analyst who understands modern enterprise systems, can translate technical detail into executable plans, and can lead delivery across multiple engineering teams. The successful candidate will manage end‑to‑end technical initiatives—owning scope, requirements, plans, and execution—while partnering closely with developers, infrastructure teams, and platform engineers to ensure projects are delivered on time and with minimal operational risk.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
5-10+ years managing technical infrastructure or application modernization projects in an Agile/Scrum environment.
Demonstrated ability to understand deeply technical systems and architectures.
Proven track record of converting complex technical requirements into actionable plans and tasks.
Experience working directly with software engineers, platform engineers, and system administrators.
Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify dependencies, risks, and sequencing challenges.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially for technical audiences.
Enterprise application platforms and runtimes
Container platforms and modern infrastructure stacks
Messaging (Kafka and MQ)
CI/CD pipelines, build and deployment tooling
Distributed systems and event‑driven architectures
Linux‑based environments and scripting
Relational databases

Nice To Haves

Experience deploying, operating, and supporting containerized workloads on Red Hat OpenShift, including managing namespaces, builds, deployments, services, and routing.
Proficient in Kubernetes concepts, OpenShift CLI and console usage, resource management (CPU/memory), troubleshooting pod and deployment issues, and integrating OpenShift with CI/CD pipelines while adhering to enterprise platform and security standard.
Solid understanding of Kafka fundamentals: topics, partitions, producers, consumers, consumer groups, replication, and connectivity/configuration, and monitoring/troubleshooting.
WebSphere Liberty fundamentals, configuration and troubleshooting.
Experience with Pega Platform implementation, development, upgrades/patching, monitoring and troubleshooting.
Working knowledge of MongoDB for application development, including using MongoDB drivers, writing basic queries and updates, understanding document schemas and indexes at a high level, and troubleshooting application‑level connectivity or performance issues.
Working knowledge of Oracle database for application development, including using drivers, writing basic queries and updates.
Solid understanding of scheduling fundamentals (CA7 or Control M): job dependencies, calendars, alerts, recovery procedures, monitoring execution, and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

Lead complex technical projects from initiation through delivery, ensuring alignment to objectives, timelines, and constraints.
Define clear project scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and assumptions.
Develop and maintain detailed project plans that reflect real technical work, not just high‑level phases.
Proactively identify and manage risks, integration challenges, and cross‑team dependencies.
Track progress, manage change, and communicate status to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
Ensure delivery deadlines are met while maintaining system stability and quality.
Engage directly with developers, architects, and infrastructure teams to elicit and clarify technical requirements.
Translate highly technical designs and discussions into well‑defined tasks, user stories, or work items.
Decompose large technical initiatives into logical, sequenced units of work.
Validate requirements and scope against platform standards, security constraints, and operational expectations.