Job Description

Title: Network Release Project Manager

Location: Toronto / ON - Hybrid

Duration: Contract

Key Activities:

• Create release plans and coordinate contents of the release package
• Create roll-back and recovery plans
• Create release packages and prepare for deployment
• Evaluate and communicate any expected impact to service levels due to release
• Manage & Coordinate promotion/release into production
• Communicate release success (or reasons for rollback)
• Evaluate release management performance based on established criteria (e.g., elapsed time, level of automation, percentage of successful on-time releases, etc.)
• Manage & Coordinate 'go/no-go' release decision making
• Facilitate, request, raise, and record change requests
• Manage/Coordinate other NS team members and/or 3rd party vendors for releases
• Manage/Coordinate to the Project Assessment, timelines, the budget, quote execution, and change order requests
• Participation & Development of Project Plan
• Track NS financials through the life cycle of the project

• U.S. International Network Release Manager's Coordination and Facilitation Project (complex in nature, large in scope) Examples:
• Network Currency Projects (upgrading and replacing switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers, PBX TDM and VOIP) in U.S. and International Locations
• Network Capacity Bandwidth Upgrades (ongoing ~ 5-10 per month); WAN Migrations, and Hosted VOIP projects ~ 600+ locations over 18-24 month period.
• Vulnerability Remediation and Management on all bank owned / managed Network Devices
• Information Security Monitoring Program ~ 1900 End Point migration
• Wealth Management WiFi turnups 20+ locations, and Voice Mail Customized Zero Out projects
• Capital Markets Trading Floor Expansion in US and Overseas (Europe/Asia)
• Corporate Real Estate Projects - Relocations, Openings, Closings/Decommissioning
• And other Line of Business Sponsored Projects for U.S. and International locations

Qualifications

• University degree/college diploma or equivalent
• Key products and services, processes and controls for the designated business
• 7-10 years of demonstrated Network Release Project Management experience delivering fault tolerant data and voice network infrastructure solutions Hardware, Software, Services, and Support.
• Project Management Professional Certification is desired (but not required).
• Superior verbal and written communication skills are required.

• The incumbent must possess the ability to work independently, be highly organized, team-oriented, effective communicator/leader, project prioritization a must; assigning and tracking tasks to resources, creating release packages, facilitate team meetings, identify "as-risk" items - mitigating risk prior to release, updating projects status, key milestones, drive target timelines, line of business testing coordination post change, go live support & transition, financial budget versus actual on all funded projects; and effectively direct or influence others and ensure that significant design issues and compliance challenges are resolved by engineering, deploy, SMEs, Vendor/Partners in a timely manner.

Working Knowledge, Skills, Experience an understanding of the following is required:

• Cisco routers, Cisco switches, and Juniper Firewalls;
• Upgrading code and/or configuring 2960, 3650, 3750, 3800, 3900, 6500 or similar model switches.
• Upgrading code and/or configuring 1800, 2800, 3800, and ASR1000, ASR1002 or similar model routers.
• Upgrading Junos OS code and/or configuring SRX 300, 650, 1400 or current models
• Knowledge familiarity with BGP, OSPF, RIP, EIGRP, L3-7 switching, HSRP, VoIP and Multicast
• Carrier / Telco WAN technologies / MPLS, VPN, Point-to-Point, SONET, OC3, DS3, T1, PRI, POTS (experience is required)
• Understanding of Network Tools (SPACE, STRM, Tufin, Lotus Notes (WorkTrack), Remedy, ServiceNow, etc.) and
• ITIL standards as they relate to incident/problem/change management concepts are desired.
• Weekly timesheet/progress reports, project portfolio updates, and timely escalations on project obstacles to management
• Must have good working knowledge of Office (Word/Excel/PowerPoint), Microsoft Project, Visio, Outlook, SharePoint, Office 365, Skype for Business, and Network Tools.

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