Technical Project Manager

Sprout provides IT asset disposition and hardware retirement services for enterprise and hyperscaler clients. The Technical Project Manager owns datacenter hardware projects across the asset lifecycle, coordinating technical teams and vendors to deliver buildouts, operations handovers, and end-of-life disposition on schedule, within budget, and to specification.

Responsibilities:

• Plan and manage datacenter buildout projects end to end — site readiness, rack and power layout, cabling, and network fabric — against defined milestones
• Coordinate facilities, engineering, and vendor teams to deliver hardware installation on schedule and to spec
• Manage scope, dependencies, and site logistics across concurrent buildout efforts
• Drive the build and configuration of compute, storage, and network infrastructure to specification
• Manage burn-in, validation, and acceptance testing before production release
• Ensure configurations, firmware, and standards are consistent and documented across deployments
• Lead the transition of newly deployed infrastructure into steady-state operations
• Ensure runbooks, monitoring, documentation, and support ownership are in place before handover
• Confirm operations readiness and sign-off with receiving teams
• Manage decommissioning of end-of-life hardware — safe power-down, de-racking, and removal
• Oversee data sanitization, asset tracking, and compliant resale, recycling, or destruction
• Maintain regulatory and chain-of-custody compliance throughout the disposition process
• Build and maintain integrated project schedules, budgets, risk registers, and status reporting across all lifecycle phases
• Coordinate vendors, contractors, and internal stakeholders, holding each accountable to scope, timeline, and quality
• Track hardware assets and maintain accurate lifecycle records in the CMDB / asset management system
• Identify risks and dependencies early, drive resolution, and escalate clearly when decisions or trade-offs are needed

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Technology, Business Management, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Several years of technical project management experience delivering datacenter or IT infrastructure hardware projects
• Demonstrated experience across the hardware lifecycle: datacenter buildout, infrastructure build and configuration, operations handover, and decommissioning and disposition
• Certifications are a plus — e.g., PMP, PRINCE2, or CSM for project management, and datacenter / infrastructure credentials such as CDCP/CDCS, ITIL, or relevant vendor certifications (Cisco, Dell, HPE)
• Experience with ITAD, data sanitization standards (e.g., NIST 800-88), and environmental / chain-of-custody compliance is a plus