Project Manager - SRE

job summary:

Our client is seeking a SRE Project Manager to join their team.

location: Telecommute

job type: Contract

salary: $44 - 45 per hour

work hours: 9am to 5pm

education: Bachelors

responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities

• Lead project planning, backlog refinement, sprint execution, and post-mortem ceremonies for one or more SRE teams.
• Coordinate cross-functional alignment with Dev, Security, and Cloud Engineering partners for work like containerization, version upgrades, and AWS infrastructure changes.
• Proactively manage Jira hygiene and workflows-ensuring that tickets are well-defined, estimated, assigned, and properly linked to Epics, Themes, and organizational priorities.
• Track and report progress on reliability, performance, and cost-focused initiatives using dashboards, Confluence documentation, and recurring status updates.
• Facilitate regular team ceremonies and leadership reviews, keeping meetings focused, data-driven, and outcome-oriented.
• Support compliance, access control, and decommissioning efforts across cloud and on-prem systems.
• Identify patterns and areas of opportunity for automation, documentation, and tooling improvements.
• Act as a steward of engineering time-minimizing context-switching, streamlining workflows, and closing the loop on stale or duplicative work.
• Contribute to shared documentation and knowledge management across the program.
• Continuously improve team processes through retrospectives and experimentation.

qualifications:

4+ years of experience in technical program management, project management, or product ownership roles in software engineering/development teams.

Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum principles and Jira/Confluence best practices (e.g., Dashboards, JQL, Macros).

Familiarity with cloud-native technologies (e.g., AWS, Kubernetes, ECS, Terraform).

Experience with observability, alerting, and incident response tooling (e.g., Datadog, New Relic, PagerDuty).

Comfortable analyzing data to drive decisions and communicating findings clearly to both engineers and executives.

High attention to detail, follow-through, and accountability.

Empathy and communication skills to work with diverse, distributed engineering teams .

Ability to manage ambiguity and bring structure to complex or undefined problem spaces.

Systems thinker who can connect day-to-day tasks to larger program and business objectives.

Collaborative mindset with a passion for empowering engineers and reducing toil.

Familiarity with cost optimization strategies in cloud infrastructure.

Previous exposure to infrastructure, SRE, and DevOps concepts.

skills:

communication,infrastructure,technical program management

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Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.

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