Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide.
Title: Infrastructure Project Manager, Network & Lab Infrastructure
Duration: 12 Months
Location: Menlo Park, CA
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide.
Title: Infrastructure Project Manager, Network & Lab Infrastructure
Duration: 12 Months
Location: Menlo Park, CA
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
About the team
The team delivers network, security, and compliance services across a large global physical infrastructure footprint: owned and leased data centers, edge and long-haul networks, and lab / R&D environments. On the labs side, the team owns end to end network infrastructure for engineering labs supporting next generation AI compute platforms, consumer hardware development, immersive capture systems, and production lab environments. Work is organized into specialized delivery pods and spans multiple domestic and international sites.
The team delivers network, security, and compliance services across a large global physical infrastructure footprint: owned and leased data centers, edge and long-haul networks, and lab / R&D environments. On the labs side, the team owns end to end network infrastructure for engineering labs supporting next generation AI compute platforms, consumer hardware development, immersive capture systems, and production lab environments. Work is organized into specialized delivery pods and spans multiple domestic and international sites.
About the role
This is a delivery-focused PM role, not a generalist one. You will own schedules, dependencies, and cross-functional coordination for lab build-outs and network rack integration programs. You need to be genuinely conversant in network infrastructure: enough to read a topology diagram, understand why an optics order is on the critical path, sit in a design review without a translator, and push back when a plan does not hold up.
This is a delivery-focused PM role, not a generalist one. You will own schedules, dependencies, and cross-functional coordination for lab build-outs and network rack integration programs. You need to be genuinely conversant in network infrastructure: enough to read a topology diagram, understand why an optics order is on the critical path, sit in a design review without a translator, and push back when a plan does not hold up.
You will spend your time unblocking other people's work. Chasing the long-lead hardware, chasing the change window, chasing the vendor who owes us a ship date. If being the squeaky wheel that keeps a program moving sounds like the job, it is.
What you will do
Project intake, scoping, and schedule/milestone management for production lab build-outs, rack integration, and wireless/AP deployment programs
Cross-functional coordination across Network Engineering, Data Center Operations, Security / NetSec, Compliance, and OEM vendors
Hardware and logistics tracking: racks, switches, optics, structured cabling, capacity, and long-lead item risk
Change management and maintenance-window coordination, including config push windows and canary / validation gates
Risk, issue, and dependency tracking with clear escalation paths
Status reporting and executive-level dashboards, plus a regular operations review and quarterly business review cadence
Documentation and process normalization: runbooks, as-builts, Confluence or equivalent wiki, and intake templates
Sprint-based delivery tracking in Jira against team OKRs, with epics and stories structured so progress rolls up cleanly
Compliance and remediation program tracking, including device configuration remediation campaigns and patch management readiness
Project intake, scoping, and schedule/milestone management for production lab build-outs, rack integration, and wireless/AP deployment programs
Cross-functional coordination across Network Engineering, Data Center Operations, Security / NetSec, Compliance, and OEM vendors
Hardware and logistics tracking: racks, switches, optics, structured cabling, capacity, and long-lead item risk
Change management and maintenance-window coordination, including config push windows and canary / validation gates
Risk, issue, and dependency tracking with clear escalation paths
Status reporting and executive-level dashboards, plus a regular operations review and quarterly business review cadence
Documentation and process normalization: runbooks, as-builts, Confluence or equivalent wiki, and intake templates
Sprint-based delivery tracking in Jira against team OKRs, with epics and stories structured so progress rolls up cleanly
Compliance and remediation program tracking, including device configuration remediation campaigns and patch management readiness
Baseline technical knowledge we expect
Data center and campus network fundamentals: L1/L2/L3, VLANs and subnetting, IPv6, BGP basics, structured cabling, optics and transceiver types
Fabric topology fluency: border leaf, spine, leaf, and campus gateway layers, and why redundancy at each tier matters
Lab and test environment models, including network segmentation tiers and how each tier differs on internet access, source code access, and wireless
Rack integration and provisioning workflows: device staging, cabling standards, DNS and certificate setup, proxy integration, monitoring onboarding
Wireless infrastructure basics: AP density and placement, controller architecture, throughput planning for high-density test environments
Data center operations and change-management process fluency (ITIL-style change control), including major incident response, rollback, and post-incident review
Enough familiarity with network automation and config-as-code workflows (Ansible or similar, Git-based config management, templated device configs, validation, canary, staged rollout) to track them as real milestones rather than black boxes
Comfort reading operational telemetry from monitoring and log platforms (Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK or equivalent) well enough to know whether a deployment is actually healthy
IP address management and device inventory concepts: address block hierarchy, device inventory graph, asset lookup. Familiarity with NetBox, phpIPAM, Infoblox or similar
Firewall and ACL policy change basics, and how a policy change can gate a deployment
Data center and campus network fundamentals: L1/L2/L3, VLANs and subnetting, IPv6, BGP basics, structured cabling, optics and transceiver types
Fabric topology fluency: border leaf, spine, leaf, and campus gateway layers, and why redundancy at each tier matters
Lab and test environment models, including network segmentation tiers and how each tier differs on internet access, source code access, and wireless
Rack integration and provisioning workflows: device staging, cabling standards, DNS and certificate setup, proxy integration, monitoring onboarding
Wireless infrastructure basics: AP density and placement, controller architecture, throughput planning for high-density test environments
Data center operations and change-management process fluency (ITIL-style change control), including major incident response, rollback, and post-incident review
Enough familiarity with network automation and config-as-code workflows (Ansible or similar, Git-based config management, templated device configs, validation, canary, staged rollout) to track them as real milestones rather than black boxes
Comfort reading operational telemetry from monitoring and log platforms (Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK or equivalent) well enough to know whether a deployment is actually healthy
IP address management and device inventory concepts: address block hierarchy, device inventory graph, asset lookup. Familiarity with NetBox, phpIPAM, Infoblox or similar
Firewall and ACL policy change basics, and how a policy change can gate a deployment
Program management skills
Building and holding a realistic schedule when hardware lead times and vendor dates are the constraint
Running intake so requests arrive scoped instead of arriving as a surprise
Driving action items owned by other people to completion without being handed authority
Reporting that leadership can read in thirty seconds and that engineers recognize as accurate
Clean backlog hygiene: every workstream tied to a tracked objective, no orphan work
Building and holding a realistic schedule when hardware lead times and vendor dates are the constraint
Running intake so requests arrive scoped instead of arriving as a surprise
Driving action items owned by other people to completion without being handed authority
Reporting that leadership can read in thirty seconds and that engineers recognize as accurate
Clean backlog hygiene: every workstream tied to a tracked objective, no orphan work
Nice to have
Prior PM or TPM work inside a hyperscaler, cloud provider, carrier, or large enterprise network organization
Experience with multi-site or international lab and data center delivery
Familiarity with Arista EOS or Juniper Junos environments
Background in procurement or supply chain coordination for network hardware
Exposure to AI/ML or XR hardware validation environments
What success looks like in the first six months
Every active build-out has a schedule with named owners and real dates
Long-lead hardware risk is visible before it becomes a slip
Leadership has one place to see program status and does not have to ask
Intake, runbooks, and as-builts are normalized enough that a new engineer can pick up a site cold
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Prior PM or TPM work inside a hyperscaler, cloud provider, carrier, or large enterprise network organization
Experience with multi-site or international lab and data center delivery
Familiarity with Arista EOS or Juniper Junos environments
Background in procurement or supply chain coordination for network hardware
Exposure to AI/ML or XR hardware validation environments
What success looks like in the first six months
Every active build-out has a schedule with named owners and real dates
Long-lead hardware risk is visible before it becomes a slip
Leadership has one place to see program status and does not have to ask
Intake, runbooks, and as-builts are normalized enough that a new engineer can pick up a site cold
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Menlo Park, CA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $70 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
- Accounts Payableunmatched
- Address Managementunmatched
- Ansibleunmatched
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
- Automationunmatched
- BGPunmatched
- Cadenceunmatched
- Campaignsunmatched
- Change Controlunmatched
- Change Managementunmatched
- Cloud Computingunmatched
- Computer Systemsunmatched
- Configuration Managementunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- Doctor of Nursing Science (DNS)unmatched
- Financial Controlunmatched
- Firewallsunmatched
- Gitunmatched
- Hardware Developmentunmatched
- IPv6unmatched
- ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library)unmatched
- Incident Managementunmatched
- Incident Responseunmatched
- Intellectual Property (IP)unmatched
- Juniper Networks JUNOSunmatched
- Laboratoryunmatched
- Laboratory Managementunmatched
- Logisticsunmatched
- Microsoft Windows System Administrationunmatched
- Network Administration/Managementunmatched
- Network Architecture/Engineeringunmatched
- Network Configuration Managementunmatched
- Network Integrationunmatched
- Network Operations Centerunmatched
- Network Programmingunmatched
- Network Securityunmatched
- Network System Hardwareunmatched
- OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer)unmatched
- Onboardingunmatched
- Operational Auditunmatched
- Operations Security (OPSEC)unmatched
- Optical Transceiversunmatched
- Opticsunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Production Systemsunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Protective Servicesunmatched
- Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
- Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
- Research & Development (R&D)unmatched
- Riskunmatched
- Software Patchesunmatched
- Subnettingunmatched
- Supply Chainunmatched
- Topologyunmatched
- Translation Servicesunmatched
- VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network)unmatched
- Wireless Communicationsunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
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