World Wide Technology

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Worldwide Technology is looking for a Technical Project Manager. This role is part of WWT s Strategic Resourcing services and is a contract role. The candidate will be supporting a WWT customer and will be employed by one of WWT s preferred partners. The partner will provide full compensation and benefit information prior to employment with the partner. Company Overview: Based in St. Louis, WWT works closely with industry leaders such as Cisco, HPE, Dell EMC, NetApp, VMware, Intel, AWS, Microsoft, and F5, focusing on three market segments: Fortune 500 companies, service providers and the public sector. WWT employs more than 5,400 people and operates in more than 2+ million square feet of state-of-the-art warehousing, distribution and integration space strategically located throughout the world. WWT is proud to announce that it has been named on the FORTUNE "100 Best Places to Work For " list for the eighth consecutive year and was awarded for multiple categories on Glassdoor's 2019 Employees' Choice Awards, honoring the Best Places to Work. Title: Technical Project Manager Location: Remote Work Duration/Type of Job: 6+ Month Contract Rate/Salary: A reasonable estimate of the current pay range for this position is $45 to $65 hourly (Rate range is on C2C basis). Actual pay will be based on a variety of factors, including shift, location, experience, skill set, performance, licensure and certification, and business needs, and will be set by your employer. The range for this position in other geographic locations may differ. Certain positions may also be eligible for variable incentive compensation, such as bonuses or commissions, that is not included in base pay. Responsibilities: Technical Project Manager (Automation, Compute LCM) with Developer background experience. Job Description Automation at an enterprise scale or focused projects. (Will need to be able to track multiple projects in parallel). Ensures timelines are being met, speaking with developers, understanding challenges, and able to speak to the applications / functionality (Functional Scrum master). Cross-organizational collaboration to ensure automation is as easy as possible, while ensuring process parity. Managing the long-term lifecycle of the projects. Own the delivery of compute life-cycle automation initiatives from discovery and backlog shaping to release, audit, and adoption. Orchestrate cross-team work (ops, security, app owners) to replace ad-hoc scripts and manual spreadsheets with repeatable workflows, clear SLAs, and measurable outcomes. Languages of development team: perl, oracle db, mysql Key Responsibilities • Build and run the automation program backlog (Kanban/Scrum), aligning monthly patching, policy/software deployment, and documentation reduction goals. • Define MVPs and phased rollouts (pilot ? expand), manage risk/issue logs, change windows, and comms. • Translate business needs into well-scoped epics/stories with acceptance criteria and test gates (QA/UAT). • Stand up simple operating mechanisms: RACI, runbooks, change calendars, release notes, and definition of done. (Projects documented in OneNote) • Replace heavy email with structured workflows and status dashboards, drive adoption. • Coordinate integrations (e.g., CMDB/ITSM, code repo/CI/CD, secrets, patch tooling). • Track value: time saved, failure rate reduction, cycle-time for patches, audit readiness. Must-Have Skills • Program & delivery management for infra/platform automation; strong backlog hygiene and facilitation. • Process design (swim lanes/value-stream mapping), change management, and stakeholder alignment. • Familiarity with ITSM (incident/change/problem), CABs, and audit/cyber controls. • Literacy in automation/IaC concepts (pipelines, artifacts, rollout/rollback, canaries), enough to challenge trade-offs. • Metrics orientation (DORA/lead time, change fail rate, MTTR; compliance %; manual-touch reduction). • Ability to work with remote and distributed teams. Nice-to-Haves • ServiceNow (Change/CMDB/ITAM/Flow Designer), JIRA/Azure Boards, OneNote. • CFEngine (configuration management system) experience • Exposure to patch orchestration (SCCM/MECM, WSUS, Red Hat Satellite/Leapp, Landscape) and compliance frameworks (CIS/STIG). • Vendor and SOW management. • Oracle and MySQL DB experience Example 90-Day Success Criteria • Backlog and roadmap approved; pilots for patching flow and spreadsheet-to-system launched. • Replace at least one email-driven update chain with a workflow + dashboard. • Baseline metrics published; first monthly patch cycle exits with cleaner change records and fewer escalations. If you have any questions or concerns about this posting, please email . Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Differently Abled