Network Project Manager

Role: Network Project Manager

Location: Remote

FTE

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Primary responsibilities:
• Serve as the main point of contact between Humana and the offshore delivery team.
• Conduct interviews and evaluate offshore candidates; present recommended candidates to Humana for review and approval.
• Manage the offshore resource pool, including assignment of work, tracking progress, and ensuring delivery quality.
• Attend Cloud Program intake and planning meetings, capturing new requests and aligning delivery timelines.
• Coordinate dependencies and cross-team engagement with Architecture, Engineering, Security, L2 Operations, and partner teams.
• Manage data center upgrade and migration initiatives, ensuring minimal downtime and precise planning.
• Lead WAN Pod migrations, network segmentation, and routing transformation projects.
• Lead delivery of complex data center modernization, WAN Pod migrations, network tapping, EVPN fabric optimization, Equinix network hub deployments, and iNet upgrades.
• Gather, document, and validate project requirements; identify required stakeholders, partners, and testing participants.
• Break down requirements into user stories for assignment to offshore engineers; ensure clarity for execution.
• Develop and maintain project artifacts including RAID logs, schedules, runbooks, and implementation plans.
• Drive end-to-end change execution:


Ø Create change tickets


Ø Coordinate CAB approvals


Ø Manage implementation bridges & overnight execution calls


Ø Ensure post-implementation validation with partner teams
• Lead and facilitate network architecture and engineering discussions related to the Cloud Network Program and associated infrastructure upgrades.
• Guide offshore engineers through technical blockers, escalation paths, and dependency challenges.
• Manage technical handoffs to L2 Network Operations and other operational teams.
• Review and validate runbooks created by offshore engineers for accuracy and operational readiness.
• Unblock offshore team members through coordination with internal SMEs and technical stakeholders.
• Partner closely with the Scrum Master and Cloud Network team to ensure alignment between Agile planning and technical execution.
• Support procurement, vendor coordination, and engineering collaboration for data center and network deployments.