Full-Time
Service Delivery Project Manager
LightEdge Solutions
201-500 employees
Secure hybrid IT infrastructure and services
No salary listed
Des Moines, IA, USA
Hybrid
Hybrid role; on-site presence in Des Moines, IA.
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- 3-5 years of project management related experience
- 2-year technical degree or equivalent work experience
- PMP or CAPM
- ITIL
- Six Sigma
- AWS Certification
- Microsoft Azure Certification
- Exceptional customer service
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for work in a collaborative team environment
- Capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously
- Ability to multi-task and operate with minimal supervision, adjusting priorities accordingly
- Able to maintain professional demeanor under stress
- Demonstrated willingness to learn and adapt to changes
- Ensure all tasks are delivered on-time for all service delivery projects
- Effectively manage and respond to changing scope and schedule
- Management of resource availability and task assignments in coordination with customers, partners, and Lightedge Customers
- Initial project discovery
- Administrative tasks for new customer account setup
- Collaborate with Sales Engineering to define scope and objectives
- Develop project plans as needed on strategic accounts and initiatives
- Project reporting and documentation through weekly status meetings
- Coordination of multi-person teams across different organizational groups
- Review of project plan and deliverables through internal coordination meetings
- Lead client facing meetings
- Resolution and / or escalation of issues in a timely manner
- Ensure project documents are complete, current and stored appropriately
- Communicate difficult and / or sensitive information with tact
- Effective communication with clients to set and manage expectations
- Actively develop and update processes and identify inefficiencies through continuous group and self-led improvement initiatives
- Accurate and timely coordination with accounting to control billing and term start dates
- Act on challenges and make business decisions on behalf of Lightedge Service Delivery
- Minimum 40 hours per week required
- Other duties as assigned
LightEdge Solutions provides hybrid IT infrastructure services focused on security and compliance. Its core offerings include secure colocation, a high-performance private cloud, and easy integration with hyperscale cloud platforms such as AWS, enabling a resilient, end-to-end IT environment. The company emphasizes physical security and cyber defense to protect client assets continuously, and offers professional cloud services to guide customers through their cloud journeys—from strategy evaluation to implementation, testing, and ongoing security management. It also provides managed services that augment a client’s internal IT team for hardware, software, and cloud environments, and collaborates with partners like Nutanix to build and deliver modern hybrid cloud infrastructure. Overall, LightEdge aims to help businesses run secure, compliant, and flexible IT operations with trusted, expert support.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Growth Equity (Venture Capital)
Total Funding
$5M
Headquarters
Des Moines, Iowa
Founded
1996
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Kansas City 3MW Tier III data center acquisition on May 1, 2026, adds immediate capacity.
- VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 deployment cuts storage TCO by 34 percent.
- Connectria acquisition in 2024 adds six data centers and 400 mission-critical customers.
What critics are saying
- Connectria integration disrupts IBM Power and AWS services, losing clients to CoreSite.
- GI Partners' debt from 2024-2026 acquisitions breaches covenants by mid-2027.
- Broadcom VMware hikes force VCF 9.0 migrations, slashing private cloud margins 30 percent.
What makes LightEdge Solutions unique
- LightEdge leads as largest IBM Power cloud provider in North America.
- LightEdge holds 13 compliance certifications including HITRUST, CJIS, and ITAR.
- LightEdge integrates private cloud with AWS, Azure, and GCP via low-latency connectivity.
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↑ 7%Lightedge, a Broadcom VMware Cloud Service Provider Pinnacle partner, has become one of the first providers globally to deploy VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 as a fully managed service. The Des Moines-based company is operationalising VCF 9.0 to accelerate enterprise adoption of modern private cloud infrastructure. VCF 9.0's unified architecture combines compute, networking, storage and cloud management on a single platform. Lightedge delivers this as a turnkey managed service, enabling enterprise IT teams to focus on applications rather than platform lifecycle management. The service offers measurable improvements including up to 10x administrator productivity gains, 38% lower memory and server total cost of ownership, and 34% reduction in storage costs. Lightedge provides managed VCF services across hosted infrastructure, edge deployments and hybrid architectures, serving clients in healthcare, financial services, manufacturing and government sectors.
DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ - Lightedge, the leading provider of hybrid infrastructure solutions, is proud to announce the launch of its groundbreaking Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution.
LightEdge, a leading provider of secure cloud and colocation for nearly three decades, has entered into an agreement to acquire Connectria, a provider of multi-cloud infrastructure and managed hosting solutions serving mission-critical workloads for more than 400 customers.
Combined Company Becomes One of the First U.S. Infrastructure Providers Offering Colocation, Private Cloud, and Public CloudDES MOINES, Iowa, April 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- LightEdge , a leading provider of secure cloud and colocation for nearly three decades, has entered into an agreement to acquire Connectria, a provider of multi-cloud infrastructure and managed hosting solutions serving mission-critical workloads for more than 400 customers. Connectria adds six data center locations to LightEdge's existing footprint of 12 highly interconnected facilities across eight U.S. markets. The acquisition — LightEdge's fourth since GI Partners' investment in 2021 — is the latest demonstration of LightEdge's strong and growing leadership role in the data center and cloud infrastructure sector."With this acquisition, LightEdge becomes one of the only secure and compliant infrastructure providers in the country offering both hybrid colocation and tailored multi-cloud solutions," said LightEdge CEO Jim Masterson. "The acquisition extends LightEdge's colocation and private cloud offering into public cloud services, while bringing together two incredibly talented and diverse teams and two highly complementary product suites, geographies, and customer bases
This week, LightEdge announced the addition of Matt Biegacki as Chief Marketing Officer.