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

• 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