Infrastructure Project Manager

Project Manager / Technical Analyst

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 initiativesowning scope, requirements, plans, and executionwhile partnering closely with developers, infrastructure teams, and platform engineers to ensure projects are delivered on time and with minimal operational risk.

Key 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.

Required Qualifications/Skills

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• OpenShift: 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.
• Kafka: Solid understanding of fundamentals: topics, partitions, producers, consumers, consumer groups, replication, and connectivity/configuration, and monitoring/troubleshooting.
• WebSphere Liberty fundamentals, configuration and troubleshooting.
• Pega Platform: Experience with Pega Platform implementation, development, upgrades/patching, monitoring and troubleshooting.
• MongoDB: Working knowledge 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.
• Oracle database: Working knowledge for application development, including using drivers, writing basic queries and updates.
• Scheduling (CA7 or Control M): Solid understanding of fundamentals: job dependencies, calendars, alerts, recovery procedures, monitoring execution, and troubleshooting.

Locations: Pittsburgh, PA About Techstra Solutions Techstra Solutions helps leading organizations unlock the value of Digital and Talent Transformation. We combine business strategy, technology, and talent to guide clients through complex transformation journeysfrom strategy through execution. We deliver our expertise through consulting, innovative staffing solutions, and software development, always focused on measurable outcomes and long-term impact.

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