We are looking for Program Manager for our client in Atlanta, GA
Job Title: Program Manager
Job Location: Atlanta, GA
Job Type: Contract
Job Overview:
- Seeking an experienced Program Manager to lead enterprise observability and monitoring transformation initiatives.
- The ideal candidate will manage end-to-end delivery of monitoring and APM migration programs, driving cross-functional collaboration, operational readiness, stakeholder alignment, and successful deployment of observability capabilities across enterprise environments.
Requirement/Must Have:
- Strong experience in Program or Project Management delivering infrastructure, platform, or tooling transformation programs.
- Proven experience leading monitoring, observability, or APM migration projects.
- Strong understanding of observability domains including APM, metrics, logs, traces, synthetic monitoring, RUM, alerting, and dashboarding.
- Experience managing large-scale, cross-functional program deliveries with structured governance models.
- Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
- Experience managing risks, dependencies, governance, and operational readiness activities.
- Ability to coordinate infrastructure, application, security, operations, and vendor teams.
Experience:
- Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, Datadog, or Splunk Observability.
- Experience implementing dashboards, SLA/SLO monitoring, and alerting solutions.
- Experience with synthetic monitoring rollout and enterprise onboarding strategies.
- Experience integrating monitoring tools with cloud, virtualization, and event management platforms.
- ITIL or Service Management experience preferred.
- Experience with cloud operations and hybrid infrastructure environments including Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform.
Responsibilities:
- Own end-to-end program delivery including scope, planning, milestones, governance, risk management, budgeting, and executive reporting.
- Drive cross-functional execution across application teams, infrastructure teams, SRE, NOC, security, compliance, and vendor organizations.
- Build and manage integrated cutover plans, dependencies, and hyper-care support models.
- Lead migration activities from existing monitoring and APM tools to target observability platforms.
- Define onboarding methodologies based on application criticality and technology compatibility.
- Drive implementation of dashboards, reporting, alerting, anomaly detection, and synthetic monitoring solutions.
- Coordinate integrations with cloud, virtualization, and event management platforms.
- Act as the primary interface for business and technology stakeholders.
- Manage vendor coordination, rollout schedules, escalation management, and support activities.
- Ensure operational readiness through training, documentation, runbooks, and support handover processes.
- Establish governance controls, security approvals, documentation standards, and audit readiness practices.
- Manage program risks and mitigation plans to minimize operational impact during migrations and cutovers.
Should Have:
- Strong leadership and communication skills.
- Experience driving enterprise transformation initiatives.
- Ability to influence engineering and operational teams.
- Strong analytical and organizational capabilities.
- Experience with service reliability and operational excellence initiatives.
Skills:
- Program Management.
- Project Management.
- Observability Platforms.
- Dynatrace.
- AppDynamics.
- New Relic.
- Datadog.
- Splunk Observability.
- APM Monitoring.
- Synthetic Monitoring.
- Dashboarding and Reporting.
- Alerting and Anomaly Detection.
- Stakeholder Management.
- Risk and Governance Management.
- ITIL and Service Management.
- Cloud Platforms.
- Azure.
- AWS.
- Google Cloud Platform.
Qualification And Education:
- Bachelor s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.