Network Release Project Manager

Toronto - Canada

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Title: Network Release Project Manager

Location: Toronto / ON - Hybrid

Duration: Contract

Key Activities:

Create release plans and coordinate contents of the release package
Create roll-back and recovery plans
Create release packages and prepare for deployment
Evaluate and communicate any expected impact to service levels due to release
Manage & Coordinate promotion/release into production
Communicate release success (or reasons for rollback)
Evaluate release management performance based on established criteria (e.g. elapsed time level of automation percentage of successful on-time releases etc.)
Manage & Coordinate go/no-go release decision making
Facilitate request raise and record change requests
Manage/Coordinate other NS team members and/or 3rd party vendors for releases
Manage/Coordinate to the Project Assessment timelines the budget quote execution and change order requests
Participation & Development of Project Plan
Track NS financials through the life cycle of the project

U.S. International Network Release Managers Coordination and Facilitation Project (complex in nature large in scope) Examples:
Network Currency Projects (upgrading and replacing switches routers firewalls load balancers PBX TDM and VOIP) in U.S. and International Locations
Network Capacity Bandwidth Upgrades (ongoing 5-10 per month); WAN Migrations and Hosted VOIP projects 600 locations over 18-24 month period.
Vulnerability Remediation and Management on all bank owned / managed Network Devices
Information Security Monitoring Program 1900 End Point migration
Wealth Management WiFi turnups 20 locations and Voice Mail Customized Zero Out projects
Capital Markets Trading Floor Expansion in US and Overseas (Europe/Asia)
Corporate Real Estate Projects - Relocations Openings Closings/Decommissioning
And other Line of Business Sponsored Projects for U.S. and International locations

Qualifications

University degree/college diploma or equivalent
Key products and services processes and controls for the designated business
7-10 years of demonstrated Network Release Project Management experience delivering fault tolerant data and voice network infrastructure solutions Hardware Software Services and Support.
Project Management Professional Certification is desired (but not required).
Superior verbal and written communication skills are required.

The incumbent must possess the ability to work independently be highly organized team-oriented effective communicator/leader project prioritization a must; assigning and tracking tasks to resources creating release packages facilitate team meetings identify as-risk items - mitigating risk prior to release updating projects status key milestones drive target timelines line of business testing coordination post change go live support & transition financial budget versus actual on all funded projects; and effectively direct or influence others and ensure that significant design issues and compliance challenges are resolved by engineering deploy SMEs Vendor/Partners in a timely manner.

Working Knowledge Skills Experience an understanding of the following is required:

Cisco routers Cisco switches and Juniper Firewalls;
Upgrading code and/or configuringor similar model switches.
Upgrading code and/or configuringand ASR1000 ASR1002 or similar model routers.
Upgrading Junos OS code and/or configuring SRX or current models
Knowledge familiarity with BGP OSPF RIP EIGRP L3-7 switching HSRP VoIP and Multicast
Carrier / Telco WAN technologies / MPLS VPN Point-to-Point SONET OC3 DS3 T1 PRI POTS (experience is required)
Understanding of Network Tools (SPACE STRM Tufin Lotus Notes (WorkTrack) Remedy ServiceNow etc.) and
ITIL standards as they relate to incident/problem/change management concepts are desired.
Weekly timesheet/progress reports project portfolio updates and timely escalations on project obstacles to management
Must have good working knowledge of Office (Word/Excel/PowerPoint) Microsoft Project Visio Outlook SharePoint Office 365 Skype for Business and Network Tools.

Title: Network Release Project Manager Location: Toronto / ON - Hybrid Duration: Contract Key Activities: Create release plans and coordinate contents of the release package Create roll-back and recovery plans Create release packages and prepare for deployment Evaluate and communicate any ex...