Technical Project Manager

Mindbox is a tech-driven company connecting top IT talents with technology projects for leading enterprises across Europe, specializing in consulting, engineering, and talent development.

• Proven experience coordinating complex IT transformation or migration projects in large, enterprise-scale environments.
• Direct experience managing migration of workloads from VMware vSphere to Red Hat OpenShift, including planning, testing, and operational readiness.
• Strong technical understanding of the VMware stack (vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, clusters, networking, storage).
• Strong technical understanding of Red Hat OpenShift architecture (projects/namespaces, workloads, routes, storage, security models).
• Excellent understanding of migration planning methodologies: workload discovery, dependency mapping, readiness assessment, compatibility checks, rollback planning.
• Proven ability to coordinate engineering, operations, and security teams.
• Strong governance skills with experience in status reporting, steering committees, milestone-based project control.
• Proficiency in managing project artefacts such as RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies), task trackers, and action registers.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow collaboration and reporting tools.
• Excellent stakeholder communication skills able to translate complex technical topics into clear business decisions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset with structured, delivery-focused execution.
• Fluent English (spoken and written).

Nice to have:

• Experience in regulated industries (e.g., banking, financial services).
• German language skills (spoken).
• Prior work in DevOps or hybrid infrastructure environments.

• Lead the delivery and coordination of the VMware to OpenShift migration programme across multiple workstreams.
• Develop and maintain the transition roadmap, milestone tracking, migration-wave planning, and decommissioning schedule.
• Coordinate planning and delivery activities across infrastructure, platform, application, network, storage, architecture, and security teams.
• Oversee migration readiness assessments including workload discovery, dependency mapping, application classification, and compatibility evaluation.
• Support definition and execution of testing phases, including functional, integration, performance, resilience, and operational acceptance tests.
• Coordinate change management activities to ensure migration steps are planned, reviewed, approved, and executed with minimal business disruption.
• Manage operational handover including knowledge transfer, documentation, service acceptance, and support model setup.
• Maintain governance and reporting through status updates, steering committee materials, risk logs, and management dashboards.
• Drive alignment with Service Management Standards, ensuring compliance with operational controls, security requirements, and IT governance.
• Ensure resilience, sustainability, and performance objectives are achieved post-migration.
• Identify and manage programme risks, dependencies, and issues, escalating appropriately when required.