IT Infrastructure Operations Manager

Citrin Cooperman offers a dynamic work environment, fostering professional growth and collaboration. We’re continuously seeking talented individuals who bring a problem-solving mindset, fresh perspectives, and sharp technical expertise. We know you have choices, so our team of collaborative, innovative professionals are ready to support your professional development. At Citrin Cooperman, we offer competitive compensation and benefits and most importantly, the flexibility to manage your personal and professional life to focus on what matters most to you!

We are looking for an experienced IT Infrastructure Operations Manager who also acts as the Delivery Manager for infrastructure projects. You will run the infrastructure intake process, track critical projects through to delivery, and provide timely, accurate metrics and status reporting to stakeholders. You will work closely with operations, engineering, vendors, and business teams so that infrastructure initiatives (migrations, upgrades, data center moves, new site rollouts) are well governed, visible, and delivered on schedule.

Responsibilities are, but not limited to:

Design, document, and continuously refine the Infrastructure Projects Intake process, including request channels, intake forms and templates, triage and prioritization criteria, approval gates, SLAs, roles and responsibilities, and workflows (e.g., in Service Now, Jira, or Azure Dev Ops).Own and run the Infrastructure Intake process day to day, from request submission through triage, assessment, prioritization, and approval, working with architects, engineers, and security to validate scope, effort, dependencies, and risk.

Maintain the intake queue and backlog, communicate decisions and timelines to requestors, and convert approved requests into projects with clear scope, owners, and milestones.

Manage delivery of infrastructure projects from initiation through planning, execution, cutover, hypercare, and handover to operations, including cloud migrations, data center moves, server and storage refreshes, network and SD-WAN upgrades, DR implementation, and new site rollouts.

Build and maintain project plans, schedules, RAID logs, and resource plans; apply the right methodology (Waterfall, Agile, or hybrid); run stage gates and project reviews; and manage scope changes through formal change control.

Lead go-live readiness reviews and cutover planning, including operational acceptance criteria, test and rollback plans, change windows, and hypercare, so that new infrastructure is fully supportable before handover.

Track all critical projects in a consolidated view, monitoring milestones, dependencies, and risks, and escalate slippage early with clear impact analysis and recommended actions.

Maintain the infrastructure project portfolio and roadmap, forecast resource and capacity demand across teams and vendors, and align priorities with business needs, architecture standards, and the technology strategy.

Define, collect, and publish delivery and operations metrics (project health, intake cycle times and backlog, on-time and on-budget rates, availability, MTTR, change success rate, patch compliance, vendor SLA performance) through dashboards and scorecards in Power BI, Tableau, Excel, or Service Now.

Produce timely weekly, monthly, and quarterly status reports with RAG status, risks, issues, decisions needed, and upcoming milestones, plus executive summaries for steering committees and leadership reviews.

Maintain stakeholder communication plans, RACI, and escalation paths, and coordinate business notifications and downtime approvals for planned changes and cutovers.

Coordinate with operations teams so projects transition smoothly into support with runbooks, monitoring, and knowledge articles in place; participate in the Change Advisory Board (CAB); and follow ITIL-aligned incident, problem, change, release, and configuration processes, including CMDB accuracy.

Track major incidents and problem records that affect projects or service levels, and follow root cause analysis (RCA) corrective actions through to closure.

Coordinate with vendors, MSPs, cloud providers, and carriers on deliverables and timelines, and track and report on vendor performance against contracts and SLAs.Plan, schedule, and run Disaster Recovery (DR) tests, coordinating application owners, infrastructure teams, and vendors; document results, gaps, and remediation actions; and report DR readiness against RTO/RPO targets.

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