Project Manager

Job Title: Project Manager - Network & Security
Day Rate: £450 per day - Outside IR35 / Limited Company
Duration: 6 months initially
Location: Central London, near Bank Station - Fully onsite
Start Date: ASAP

Overview
We are assisting a client in their requirement for an experienced Project Manager to lead the delivery of a Cisco network and security transformation programme.

As Project Manager, you will take ownership of the end-to-end delivery, coordinating technical resources, stakeholders, third parties and business teams to ensure the migration is delivered successfully with minimal disruption to production services.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and manage the project from initiation through design, build, migration, testing, cutover and handover into BAU.
• Develop and maintain the overall project plan, milestones, dependencies, RAID log and delivery schedule.
• Coordinate the deployment of the new Cisco Secure Firewall infrastructure, including FMC HA and multiple firewall HA pairs.
• Manage the programme of legacy firewall configuration and policy migration, ensuring appropriate technical review, testing and sign-off.
• Coordinate the migration of Cisco Catalyst 3850 switch stacks to Catalyst 9300 infrastructure.
• Work closely with Network/Security Consultants, Architects and operational teams to ensure technical deliverables are completed to agreed timescales.
• Plan and coordinate production change windows, migrations and cutovers, including rollback planning and business communications.
• Manage dependencies between firewall, routing/BGP, switching and associated infrastructure changes.
• Ensure appropriate HLD/LLD, implementation plans, migration plans, test plans, rollback plans and operational handover documentation are produced and approved.
• Manage technical and business risks, issues, actions and dependencies through to resolution.
• Coordinate CAB/change-management submissions and approvals where required.
• Provide clear project reporting to technical and senior stakeholders, including progress, risks, milestones and financial/resource position.
• Manage third-party suppliers and vendors where required.
• Ensure successful transition into operational support following implementation.

Required Experience

• Strong experience delivering enterprise network and/or network security infrastructure projects.
• Previous delivery experience involving firewall deployments, upgrades or migrations.
• Experience managing projects involving Cisco networking and security technologies would be highly desirable.
• Experience managing network switch refresh/migration programmes, ideally involving Cisco Catalyst infrastructure.
• Good understanding of enterprise networking concepts including routing, BGP, switching, high availability, firewalls and network security.
• Experience managing complex infrastructure migrations within live production environments.
• Strong understanding of change management, implementation planning, testing, cutover and rollback processes.
• Proven experience coordinating Network Engineers, Security Engineers, Consultants and Architects.
• Strong RAID, dependency and stakeholder-management capabilities.
• Experience managing third-party suppliers and multiple technical workstreams.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical delivery issues into clear business impact and project risk.

Desirable

• Experience delivering projects involving Cisco Secure Firewall / Firepower / FTD / FMC.
• Exposure to Cisco Catalyst 3850 and 9300 environments.
• Experience delivering projects involving BGP/routing changes alongside firewall migrations.
• Cisco infrastructure transformation or data centre/network refresh experience.
• Relevant project management certification such as PRINCE2, PMP, AgilePM or equivalent.