Project Manager – IT Infrastructure
Irvine, California, United States of America
Contract
1 week ago
No Visa Sponsorship
Key skills
FirewallsIAMActive DirectoryLeadershipProject Management
About this role
Role Overview
CompassX is a boutique business and technology consulting firm. We help Fortune 500 and high-growth clients deliver their most strategic initiatives, from enterprise transformations to digital and data-driven projects. With over 15 years of proven results, we’ve expanded across industries including financial services, pharmaceuticals, aerospace, consumer products, and quick service restaurants.
We are honored to be recognized as a three-time winner of Consulting Magazine’s Best Boutique Firms to Work For, and previously recognized as a “Best Place to Work” in Southern California and one of INC.’s 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S.
Requirements
- IT Project Management Experience: Proven track record managing technology infrastructure projects
- ideally including M&A integrations, system migrations, or enterprise IT standup programs.
- Microsoft Environment Familiarity: Working knowledge of Microsoft 365 environments
- Active Directory, Outlook, SharePoint, and domain migrations
- enough to understand scope, sequence dependencies, and risk.
- General Contractor Instincts: You don't need to be the deepest specialist in the room, but you need to know enough about firewalls, VPNs, IAM, and server migrations to coordinate execution teams effectively and catch problems early.
- Specialist Depth (Nice to Have): Deep expertise in any one of the domains above
- network/security, Microsoft environments, IAM, or IT operations
- is a meaningful differentiator.
- Stakeholder & Vendor Management: Comfortable managing up to client leadership and across technical execution teams simultaneously. You keep people aligned without slowing them down.
- Documentation Discipline: Able to build structured, reusable process documentation
- this phase ends with a usable playbook, not just a project.
- Local Presence: Based in LA, Orange County, or San Diego, with the ability to be on-site as needed throughout the engagement.
Tech Stack
- Firewalls
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Paid time off
- Professional development opportunities