IT Project Manager – ICT Core Infrastructure, Active Components & Security

Role Overview

Position Details

• Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE.
• Employment type: Full-time.
• Reports to the Head of Operations or COO.

Project Planning and Governance

• Lead end-to-end ICT and security projects from initiation to closure.
• Define scope, milestones, budgets, timelines, and success criteria.
• Maintain project plans, risk registers, dependency logs, and RAID matrices.
• Manage change control, scope creep, stakeholder expectations, and regulatory alignment.

ICT Infrastructure Delivery

• Oversee on-premises, cloud, and hybrid data centers.
• Deliver network backbone, structured cabling, servers, storage, virtualization, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions.
• Coordinate infrastructure readiness across physical, logical, and operational layers.

Active Components and Networks

• Manage core, aggregation, and access switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers, wireless controllers, and access points.
• Oversee network monitoring and management systems.
• Ensure performance, scalability, redundancy, and high availability.

Security Projects

• Lead network security projects involving firewalls, IPS/IDS, WAF, and NAC.
• Deliver endpoint and server security, IAM, privileged access, and SIEM or SOC integration solutions.
• Align security architecture with ICT and business requirements and applicable standards.

Vendors and Stakeholders

• Act as the primary contact for vendors, system integrators, and consultants.
• Review technical proposals, bills of quantities, security designs, and implementation methodologies.
• Coordinate internal IT, security, operations, and management stakeholders.
• Lead vendor meetings, FAT/SAT sessions, and acceptance sign-offs.

Implementation and Handover

• Oversee installation, configuration, integration, commissioning, testing, security validation, and acceptance testing.
• Manage as-built documentation, configuration baselines, and asset registers.
• Ensure structured handover to operations with training, SOPs, and knowledge transfer.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Electronics, or a related field.
• 6–10 or more years of overall IT experience.
• At least 5 years as an IT Project Manager handling ICT infrastructure and security projects.
• Experience with core ICT infrastructure, data centers, enterprise networks, active components, cybersecurity, and security system implementations.
• Government, regulated, or mission-critical environment experience is preferred.
• Strong understanding of data center architecture, LAN/WAN, network security design, cybersecurity controls, servers, storage, virtualization, and disaster recovery.
• Ability to review and challenge technical and security designs.

Project Management and Soft Skills

• Strong command of project governance, scheduling, budgeting, and reporting.
• PMP certification is strongly preferred.
• ITIL certification is an advantage.
• Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, ownership, and accountability skills.
• Ability to operate in high-pressure, multi-vendor environments.