25 February 2026 Infrastructure Infrastructure Utrecht ZZP and / or Contracting

Introduction

  • 40 hours per week
  • Start date: ASAP
  • End date: 31-12-2027
  • ZZP is possible.
  • Only residents of the Netherlands can apply. No relocation is possible.

Function

Program Management & Delivery

• Lead end to end infrastructure and cloud migration programs from initiation through closure
• Define program scope, objectives, success criteria, and delivery approach
• Develop and manage integrated master plans including milestones, dependencies, and critical paths
• Own program financials including budget planning, forecasting, variance analysis, and reporting
• Establish and operate governance structures such as steering committees, change control, and escalation processes
• Drive decision making through data analysis, trade off assessment, and stakeholder alignment

The Infrastructure and Cloud Migration Project Manager leads complex infrastructure transformation initiatives spanning on-premises environments, hybrid platforms, and public cloud services. The role is responsible for program delivery excellence across discovery, design, build, migration, cutover, and stabilization phases, ensuring initiatives are delivered on time, within budget, and to agreed quality standards.

This role coordinates crossfunctional teams, external vendors, and senior stakeholders to deliver infrastructure modernization, cloud adoption, hosting migrations, and data center transformation programs, while maintaining business continuity and operational stability.

Tasks and Responsibilities

Program Management and Delivery
• Lead end-to-end infrastructure and cloud migration programs from initiation through closure
• Define program scope, objectives, success criteria, and delivery approach
• Develop and manage integrated master plans including milestones, dependencies, and critical paths
•  Own program financials including budget planning, forecasting, variance analysis, and reporting
• Establish and operate governance structures such as steering committees, change control, and escalation processes
• Drive decisionmaking through data analysis, tradeoff assessment, and stakeholder alignment

Infrastructure and Cloud Program Coordination
• Orchestrate cloud migration and hosting transformation programs across public cloud and hybrid platforms
• Manage onpremises infrastructure initiatives including data center consolidation, modernization, and decommissioning
• Coordinate discovery and assessment phases covering asset inventories, dependency mapping, and readiness analysis
• Plan and execute migrations and cutovers with minimal business disruption and approved rollback strategies
• Coordinate multisite and multiregion programs across offices, manufacturing sites, and data centers
• Manage infrastructure separation or carveout activities where required

Stakeholder and Vendor Management
• Lead engagement with senior stakeholders and executive steering committees
• Manage relationships with system integrators, cloud providers, and technology vendors
• Govern statements of work (SOWs), delivery milestones, and acceptance criteria
• Facilitate collaboration across infrastructure, application, security, and business teams
• Act as the central point of coordination between internal teams and external delivery partners

Risk, Quality and Change Management
• Maintain comprehensive risk and issue registers with proactive mitigation strategies
• Drive issue resolution through structured escalation and corrective action management
• Manage scope changes through impact analysis, approval workflows, and baseline control
• Ensure quality assurance through testing coordination, validation, and acceptance signoff
• Safeguard business continuity through cutover planning, disaster recovery alignment, and service restoration processes

Communications and Reporting
• Produce clear and concise executive level status reports, dashboards, and decision papers
• Lead program reviews, working sessions, and milestone checkpoints
• Coordinate golive communications, service notifications, and hypercare support
• Support organizational change management through structured communications and adoption planning

Requirements

Education & Professional Background
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline
• Equivalent professional experience may be considered in lieu of formal education
• Proven experience managing large scale IT infrastructure and cloud migration programs in complex enterprise environments

Project & Program Management Certifications (Preferred)
• PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, or equivalent project management certification
• Agile or hybrid delivery certifications (e.g. SAFe, Scrum Master, AgilePM)
• IT service management certification (e.g. ITIL Foundation or higher) is an advantage

Key Competencies

Project and Program Management Expertise
• Strong experience delivering largescale IT infrastructure and cloud programs
• Expertise in project and program governance, RAID management, and executive reporting
• Solid financial management skills across CapEx and OpEx models
• Experience working in complex, multivendor, and global delivery environments

Infrastructure and Cloud Knowledge (Governance Level)
• Understanding of on-premises infrastructure including compute, virtualization, storage, and backup
• Familiarity with public cloud hosting models (IaaS and selected PaaS)
• Knowledge of hybrid infrastructure patterns and transitional architectures
• Experience with migration strategies including discovery, wave planning, cutover, and rollback
• Understanding of infrastructure lifecycle management, consolidation, and decommissioning

Professional Capabilities
• Strong stakeholder and vendor management skills
• Ability to translate technical complexity into business focused outcomes
• Confident communicator at technical and executive levels
• Structured, outcome driven, and resilient under pressure

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Vacancy number

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