Duties and Accountabilities:
- People Management in one of the five 24x7 shift teams in Unified Support Service Operations Energy Industry Vertical
- Employee performance monitoring & appraisals
- Identifying & organizing necessary training/coaching programs to continually improve and upkeep employee performance (PDPs PIPs etc.)
- Initiating and implementing human resource management best practices as per company & industry standards/directives
- Conducting regular team meetings to keep employees informed about organizational direction/strategy business plans organizational goals/objectives and results HR/welfare initiatives etc.
- Team administration duties such as
- Coordinating shift transport in partnership with the local administration team
- Shift attendance management
- Providing overtime/shift allowance reporting
- Provision of reference information as part of the HR team service letters process
- Facilitating staff welfare activities/events in partnership with team leadership
- Ensure compliance with local/company regulatory and legal requirements
- Ensure all ergonomics and IT facility/equipment needs of staff are duly addressed
- Maintain a conducive work environment and preserve a collaborative culture in the team
- Identify and handle employee needs concerns grievances and conflicts and address them proactively
- Work with the local leadership team to design and implement organizational strategy policies guidelines etc. to ensure a stable costeffective and viable operation
- Facilitate the headcount planning and hiring process for new employees
- Execute the onboarding of new employees once they have been appointed
- Operational Management in one of the five 24x7 shift teams
- Ensuring team members complete their duties including:
- Incident and Queue management
- Deployments and service request fulfilment
- Case acknowledgement and updates
- Case resolutions
- Escalations to stakeholder and resolver groups
- Scheduling of cases
- Ensure the team members perform all activities observing standard processes and within defined KPI/SLA/SLO
- Help the problem management team in their duties
- Improving processes and documentation to drive continuous improvement in the teams performance
- Distribute educate and inform the team of the new/updated SOPs etc.
- Execute the shift handover process at the beginning and end of the teams shift
- Ensure the right resources are available in the shift and work with management to address any shortfalls on a daily and longterm basis
- Help the team members with prioritization decisions as they handle multiple Cases
Technical Skills:
A wideranging baseline of technical knowledge covering the core relevant technologies for the IFS product suite would be useful including:
- Microsoft Azure PaaS (e.g. App Services SQL Database Storage Redis Cache etc.)
- Oracle Database/Middleware Web Servers Proxies Firewalls Kubernetes
- Network architectures especially related to Microsoft Azure (e.g. vNets NSGs VPN ExpressRoute SSL/TLS certificates DNS)
- Security standards encryption authentication authorization integrity auditing pentesting etc. and how these are applied in a cloud environment.
- Alternatively technical or functional knowledge of the IFS product suite is also considered similarly useful for this role.
Personal Abilities:
- Ability to work to deadlines and targets
- Ability to manage own time and that of a team efficiently and effectively
- Ability to work in the international multidiscipline crossfunctional teams
- Flexibility to work to deadlines and needs of the role
- Ability to read and comprehend technical documentation written in English
- Ability to influence and guide others to deliver on the team aims
- Problemsolving skills and the ability to change approach based on information gathered during the process
- Ability to steer and motivate a team of technical individuals both remotely and when working onsite
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong organizational skills and ability to multitask
- A good team player with a cando attitude
Experience:
- Mandatory
- Proven ability in cloud computing services or enterprise IT service delivery or DevOps or product support with proven expertise in management or team leadership or equivalent capacity
- Demonstrated knowledge of cloud computing services or IT service management methodologies or product support best practices
- Expertise in modern ticket/service desk tooling such as ServiceNow Jira Service Desk or a similar tool
- Expertise in ITIL ISO 20000 or a similar service delivery framework also considered a plus
Continuously expanding your operational and functional/technical domain knowledge is a very important part the role.
The role forms part of a 24x7x365 shift pattern.
The role is nominally 37 hours a week but extra hours may be needed to discharge all associated duties.
Qualifications :
- University or equivalent professional qualifications in software/system engineering or IT operations
- ITIL qualifications would be useful but not mandatory
- Vendorprovided technical certification (CCNA OCP MCSA etc.) would be useful though not mandatory
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime