Project Director / PMO

Project overview

We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Project Director / PMO to join the IT Platform entity as part of a strategic private cloud infrastructure modernization program.

Infrastructure Project Management: Lead a major transformation program for On-Premise infrastructures, notably the migration from VMware to Nutanix.

Strategic and Operational PMO: Structure governance, consolidate planning, manage budgets, risks, dependencies, and ensure reporting to various stakeholders.

Management and Transverse Coordination: Supervise and lead a team of approximately 15 SysOps employees and contractors, while ensuring coordination with technical teams and product managers.

The main challenge is to ensure the successful execution of the transformation program, control commitments, and maintain infrastructure service continuity.

Technical and Organizational Environment

Reporting to the head of the IT Platform entity, you will work in a complex environment combining On-Premise infrastructures, Public Cloud, and hybrid architectures.

The SysOps team operates in three areas:

Private Cloud: compute, storage, virtualization, operating systems, datacenter, and backup.

Networks and Security: LAN/WAN, telephony, load balancing, and firewalls.

Public Cloud: AWS, Landing Zone, and associated services.

The organization relies on transverse collaboration with Product Owners, Product Managers, DevOps managers, architects, CISOs, technical leads, and operational teams.

The IT department's strategy aims to modernize its infrastructures, accelerate delivery, develop Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings, and strengthen DevOps practices.

Main Missions

You will be responsible for the overall management of a strategic private cloud infrastructure modernization program.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

Leading the project to migrate the existing VMware environment to a Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure.

Managing the various phases of the program: scoping, contracting, deployment, migration, and stabilization.

Building and maintaining the program roadmap.

Coordinating technical workstreams related to compute, storage, network, virtualization, and systems.

Managing integrators and contractors involved in the program.

Overseeing infrastructure modernization and containerization efforts.

Ensuring consistency between legacy infrastructures and new platforms.

Anticipating impacts on production, performance, and service continuity.

Ensuring adherence to objectives, deadlines, budgets, and delivery commitments.

In addition to your Project Director responsibilities, you will perform a Senior PMO function, with a strong focus on structuring, coordinating, and securing the program.

Governance and Organization

Define and implement program governance and management mechanisms.

Structure monitoring bodies: project committees, steering committees, and decision-making committees.

Prepare, lead, and formalize governance meetings.

Clarify responsibilities, roles, and decision-making processes among stakeholders.

Ensure escalation of alerts and prepare decisions for management and the IT department.

Planning and Transverse Coordination

Build and maintain a consolidated master plan integrating all workstreams.

Define milestones, deliverables, deadlines, and critical paths.

Consolidate the progress of various technical work packages and associated projects.

Identify and manage interdependencies between infrastructure, network, security, cloud, and production teams.

Anticipate blocking points and propose corrective action plans.

Coordinate project managers, architects, technical managers, and contractors.

Ensure overall consistency of schedules and commitments.

Budget Management and Resource Tracking

Build and consolidate program budget tracking.

Monitor expenses, commitments, consumption, and forecasts.

Identify discrepancies between projected and actual budgets.

Manage capacities and workloads of internal and external teams.

Track allocations, consumed days, and resource needs.

Prepare necessary elements for budget decisions.

Risk Management and Reporting

Implement and maintain a consolidated register of risks, actions, decisions, and dependencies.

Assess financial, technical, organizational, and calendar impacts.

Define and track mitigation and remediation plans.

Build dashboards and management indicators.

Produce concise reports for entity managers and the IT department.

Ensure the reliability, traceability, and quality of communicated information.

Monitor decisions and action plans until their closure.

You will also be responsible for managing and leading a team of approximately 15 internal employees and contractors.

• Infrastructure Modernization Program Management
• Senior PMO – Governance and Transverse Management
• Management and Leadership of the SysOps Team

Responsibilities

Organizing activities and distributing workload based on operational priorities.

Ensuring delivery quality and achievement of objectives.

Coordinating Build and Run activities.

Supporting technical leads and fostering cross-team collaboration.

Harmonizing working methods between Private Cloud, Public Cloud, and Network teams.

Developing skills, autonomy, and collaboration.

Participating in recruitment, performance reviews, and employee follow-up.

Managing operational relationships with service providers and contractors.

Contributing to the continuous improvement of processes and organization.

Define and monitor operational and strategic KPIs.

Supervise adherence to SLAs and service commitments.

Ensure infrastructure availability, security, and performance.

Manage capacity, obsolescence, and scalability issues.

Identify areas for process and practice improvement.

Contribute to controlling operating and infrastructure costs.

Support the evolution of practices towards greater automation and DevOps.

Technical Skills

Good command of On-Premise infrastructure environments: virtualization, compute, storage, backup, systems, and networks.

Knowledge of Private Cloud, Public Cloud, and hybrid architectures.

Understanding of VMware and Nutanix environments.

Knowledge of migration, modernization, and production continuity challenges.

Good understanding of AWS architectures and DevOps practices.

Ability to engage with architects and technical experts, challenge solutions, and understand the impact of decisions.

Project Management and PMO Skills

Management of complex, multi-workstream IT programs.

Project governance and steering committee facilitation.

Building and consolidating master plans.

Budget tracking, resource management, and commitment management.

Risk, dependency, and action plan management.

Building dashboards and executive reporting.

Transverse coordination of project managers and technical teams.

Proficiency in project management methodologies and planning/reporting tools.

Profile Sought

Professional Experience

Senior profile with ideally a minimum of 10 years of experience in IT infrastructure project and program management.

Significant experience in managing complex infrastructure transformation projects.

Proven experience in Senior PMO, program management, or transverse governance roles.

Experience in managing or coordinating multidisciplinary technical teams.

Experience in large enterprise environments with multiple internal and external stakeholders.

Experience with VMware to Nutanix migration or hyperconverged infrastructure transformation is a major asset.

Personal Qualities

Leadership, strategic vision, and ability to unite multidisciplinary teams.

Excellent organizational, structuring, and prioritization skills.

Ability to simultaneously manage strategic and operational issues.

Comfort in communicating with technical and decision-making stakeholders.

Analytical skills, risk anticipation, and decision-making ability.

Autonomy, rigor, and sense of responsibility.

Ability to challenge teams while maintaining a collaborative dynamic.

Education

Master's degree (Bac+5) in IT, engineering school, or equivalent university degree.

Additional training or certification in project management (PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, or equivalent) is appreciated.

• Management of Service Performance and Quality

Project details

• Start: 2026-10-19
• Duration: 12 mois (renouvelables)
• Location: 92200 NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE, FR
• Languages: French