Excellent communication skills verbal and written with ability to articulate messages to different audiences
Effective time management skills with ability to multitask and prioritise under pressure
Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to devise beneficial strategies for Advanced and clients
Self-motivated tenacious disciplined enthusiastic and resilient individual
Understanding of good practices for standard repeatable deployment processes and procedures with experience in automation scripting and streamlining processes for efficiency and accuracy
Highly experienced in producing and analyzing reports across technical and operational disciplines from various sources
Experience providing technical leadership and guidance to others
Good knowledge around networks and security preferably from a networking background
Demonstrable experience in infrastructure management with various tooling
Good knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory domains virtualization technologies like VMware vSphere and ESX and Azure
Working knowledge of ITIL framework for Incident Problem and Change Management
Capable of informal project management applying appropriate project methodology to structured reporting
Desirables
Networking background
Virtualization expertise
Azure knowledge
What the job involves
Act as accountable Technical Manager for allocated customers with responsibilities in problem management change management capacity management and infrastructure availability management
Improve service health through continual technical innovation lifecycle management and technology roadmap
Conduct technical capacity and governance reporting and service review meetings to provide technical input and analysis
Oversee patch management security health and disaster recovery planning and scheduling
Maintain records of SSL certificates and ensure robust management of monitoring for services