Windows Server Project Manager

Salary: £49,000 - 89,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven IT Project Manager with experience delivering infrastructure or platform upgrade programmes within complex enterprise environments.
• Demonstrable experience leading Windows Server upgrade initiatives including large scale estate remediation or operating system refresh programmes.
• Strong understanding of Windows Server environments, upgrade approaches, and dependencies across applications and infrastructure services.
• Experience coordinating upgrades in environments with business critical and regulated systems.
• Strong stakeholder management with experience working across Infrastructure, Operations, Application teams, Information Security, and third party vendors.
• Experience operating within formal IT governance, change control, and service transition frameworks.
• Awareness of security, compliance, and vendor support lifecycle requirements relating to operating system platforms.
• Strong delivery discipline with experience producing and maintaining project plans, RAID logs, and senior level reporting.
• Experience within professional services, financial services, or other regulated industries is beneficial.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the delivery of a Windows Server upgrade programme for a global professional services organisation, ensuring the server estate remains secure, supported, and compliant.
• Plan and deliver upgrades across Windows Server platforms in data centre and hybrid environments while minimising risk to business critical applications and services.
• Develop and maintain the delivery plan for a large scale Windows Server upgrade programme aligned to technology strategy, security standards, and agreed timelines.
• Lead end to end project management of upgrade activity including estate discovery, upgrade planning, dependency management, testing, cutover, and decommissioning of legacy operating systems.
• Work closely with Infrastructure, Operations, Application Owners, Architecture, and Information Security teams to confirm scope, upgrade approach, and non functional requirements.
• Coordinate server upgrade and migration activity, ensuring clear runbooks, tested rollback plans, and approved maintenance windows are in place.
• Identify and manage risks associated with unsupported operating systems, application compatibility, service availability, and security exposure.
• Oversee third party vendors and partners supporting upgrade or remediation workstreams, ensuring delivery aligns with scope and quality expectations.
• Maintain governance artefacts including project plans, RAID logs, dependency tracking, and status reporting, escalating issues and risks through technology governance forums.
• Coordinate testing and validation activities including functional testing, security validation, and operational acceptance prior to service handover.
• Support operational handover to Infrastructure and Operations teams, ensuring documentation, monitoring, and support arrangements are established.
• Ensure legacy servers are formally decommissioned in line with enterprise asset management, security, and data disposal policies.

Technologies:

• Support
• Project Manager
• Security
• Windows

More:

We are hiring a Windows Server Upgrade Technology Project Manager for a fixed-term contract based in London, with three days on site. You will join a global professional services organisation to lead a critical Windows Server upgrade programme across enterprise and hybrid environments. The role focuses on delivering secure, compliant upgrades while working closely with infrastructure, operations, application, architecture, information security, and third-party partners.

last updated 33 week of 2026