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The Technical Operations Manager is an entry level management role, responsible for ensuring managed service is provided to all clients, to ensure that their IT infrastructure and systems remain operational. This is done through proactively managing, overseeing, monitoring, investigating, and resolving escalated technical incidents and problems to ensure the restoration of these services to the clients to ensure compliance to the agreed service level agreement. The primary objective of this role is to ensure contracted Managed Services outcomes are delivered to the client and assists with the planning, building and supporting of delivering managed services to meet business objectives.
Job Responsibility:
Monitors the work queues and provides support to clients where the ticket is highly technical or sophisticated in nature
Leading and Managing large teams within a complex, fast paced environment
Ability to effectively manage and resolve conflicts, to support team cohesion and operational stability
Works independently, with general direction from the client, stakeholders, team lead, or senior manager, to perform operational tasks to resolve all escalated incidents/requests in a timely manner within the agreed SLA
Provides support to all escalated incidents
Shares such knowledge, to resolve issues, document them, and push the knowledge down to other engineers
Acts as emergency support contact as needed, for critical client and business-impacting issues
Ensures that the shift handover process highlight any key escalated open tickets to be focussed on along with a handover of upcoming operation critical tasks to be carried out in the next shift
Timely escalation of all tickets to management with ensuing updates, where applicable
Proactively identifies, contributes, implements, and works with automation teams for effort optimization and automating routine tasks
Systematically gathers relevant information and apply technical knowledge to analyze and use highly technical troubleshooting tools and content and analytical practices
Uses operational and diagnostic procedures to resolve escalated tickers in unique and complex client environments
Performs quality audits, covering process, service experience, ticket updates as required
Drives service delivery to clients and applies standardized service management service operations (SMSO) to deliver managed services
Provides operational support and continuous service improvement post client handover from Technical Services (or other) teams
Implements training and development initiatives for direct reports
Engages with clients for technical operations as part of routine operations
Constantly measures and analyze team’s delivery capabilities
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent degree in Information Technology or Computing or related field
ITIL certification is desirable
Demonstrated experience in Network, Collaboration/Customer experience, Cloud, Security, Data Center is advantageous
Demonstrated experience in coaching and mentoring engineering team(s) gained within an information technology services organization
3-5 years experince in a Managment role
Demonstrated experience implementing continual service improvement initiatives (through automation, process enhancements)
Demonstrated experience in organizational change management (transformational experience)
Relevant demonstrated experience in domain towers such as Network, Collaboration/Customer experience, Cloud, Security, Data Center
Good organizational and team management skills
Good communication skills – both verbal and written coupled with excellent ability to collaborate with internal stakeholders and external clients
Developing understanding of budgets and cost management
Good time management, prioritization and delegation abilities
Good focus on client centricity
Highly focused on business outcomes
Ability to guide the team through transformational objectives set out by the business
Ability to work across different cultures and social groups
Ability to work well in a pressurized environment and adapt to changing circumstances
Nice to have:
ITIL certification
Demonstrated experience in Network, Collaboration/Customer experience, Cloud, Security, Data Center