Procept Associates Professional Services Limited (Procept Africa) is a franchisee of Procept Associates Ltd, Canada.  We specialize in consulting, training and software solutions, through a network of associates  and partners, using best practice  frameworks in Canada, Nigeria, South Africa,  East Africa, Zambia and now Ghana.

Procept is recruiting to fill the position of Service Manager for Cloud Services, who will provide essential support to our partner's business operations involving managing Security Services for Microsoft Azure. The ideal candidate must have at least 5 years experience, must be a goal-getter and must have the ability to be flexible and work analytically in a problem-solving environment.

This Service Manager (SM) role will report to the overall Service Delivery Lead (SDM) for Cloud Managed Services (CMS) and Managed Security Services (MSS).

The Service Manager will by extension be responsible for managing support services for CMS and MSS. The support services include but not limited to managing Service Level Agreements (SLAs), incident resolution, service requests, escalation management and any other services defined in this document. The Service Manager will be required to provide reports, insights, and feedback in accordance with the governance structures and process as defined by the Service Delivery Lead. The Service Manager will also be required to attend service governance meetings, client meetings, stand-ups as defined by the Service Delivery Lead

The governance processes are subject to change from time-to-time as the service to the client evolves or matures. The Service Manager will the therefor be expected to adapt to change as and when the need arises in accordance to the specified responsibilities of this job specification.

Key Functions and skills:

1. Service Management

• Monitoring Cloud Managed Services (CMS) and Managed Security Services (MSS) support functions to ensure optimal service.
• Understand compliance, governance, and SLA requirements.
• Manage client SLAs for CMS and MSS
• Maintaining high performance levels for service-related processes and assist with the implementing improvement activities wherever necessary.
• Taking ownership of critical incidents, coordinating with resolution parties, and establishing effective communication between stakeholders for post-incident reviews
• Ensuring that systems, procedures, and methodologies are in place to support outstanding service delivery in conjunction with the offshore delivery team.
• Developing a deep understanding of al delivery aspects to gain insights into the scope of service delivery.
• Taking accountability for service delivery performance, meeting customer expectations, and driving future demand
• Analyzing third-party as well as internal processes, and creating strategies for service delivery optimization where necessary

2. Performance and Quality Management

• Recommending methods of improvement and seeing that actions are implemented on time for service delivery upgrades.
• Providing accurate and regular reports to the management on performance of the service delivery as per the agreed reporting methodology in the contract
• Leading personnel management, including staff recruitment, performance assessment, training, and mentoring.
• Building strong relationships with teams and stakeholders to enable effective dialogue exchange between different delivery teams and our telecommunication client’s stakeholders.

3. Service Delivery Manager Skills

• Proficiency in leading both physical and virtual teams
• Experience in dealing with third party-provided services.
• Operational ability in a diverse, large-scale environment
• Exceptional customer-facing skills
• In-depth knowledge of escalation procedures, incident management, and other disciplines related to service delivery.
• Mastery of ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) principles
• Expertise in people management and leadership
• Strong organizational skills
• Capacity to train and guide junior team members.
• Ability to manage and prioritize tasks efficiently.
• Solid resource planning and problem-solving skills
• Readiness to demonstrate a proactive attitude.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

4. Technical Skills

• Azure Solution Architect
• Azure Security Specialization and experience

Requirements:

• 5+ years’ experience working with infrastructure transformation and/or cloud transformation.
• Broad infrastructure technology knowledge.
• Proven experience working with transformation or migration projects with at least one of the three major cloud providers (Microsoft, Amazon, Google).
• Hands-on experience building solutions with at least one of the three major cloud providers.
• Certified Architect or equivalent with at least one of the major cloud providers.

Professional Skills:

• Excellent communication skills (both written and oral)
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to be flexible and work analytically in a problem-solving environment.
• Attention to detail
• Strong organizational and multi-tasking skills
• Strong analytical skills and thought processes.

Core Responsibilities:

• Effectively managing key stakeholders both internally and externally to the organisation
• Lead delivery teams performing cloud strategy work or cloud readiness assessments. 
• Lead delivery teams delivering large scale transformation projects building infrastructure, implementing automation, DevOps, containers, security controls and monitoring tools.
• Lead sales teams to help shape relevant solutions and requirements fitting well to our Cloud First strategy as a Subject Matter Expert.