Senior Manager Service Operations and Enablement
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You will establish and maintain operational readiness requirements and acceptance processes for infrastructure deployments. You will develop on-premises operations and maintenance models, define support boundaries and escalation paths, and document operational ownership. You will build role-based training, certification, competency, and knowledge-management programs. You will also assess prospective data center environments and translate engineering knowledge into repeatable procedures.
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain Ready-for-Service requirements.
- Own the operational acceptance process between Build & Deploy and production operations.
- Establish Operational Readiness Reviews for new clusters and major changes.
- Ensure monitoring, alerting, runbooks, escalation, support, spares, maintenance, and operator-readiness requirements are satisfied.
- Identify readiness gaps and drive them to closure.
- Measure technical completion-to-operational acceptance performance.
- Define scalable operations and maintenance models for customer on-premises deployments.
- Define operational boundaries and escalation paths.
- Build training, competency, and certification frameworks for infrastructure operators.
- Develop role-based curricula, practical drills, and simulations.
- Establish and maintain operational knowledge-management standards for runbooks, SOPs, procedures, and playbooks.
- Assess prospective data center environments for operational suitability.
Requirements
- 8+ years in infrastructure operations, service operations, technical enablement, customer infrastructure, production readiness, or related technical fields.
- 3+ years leading teams or significant technical programs.
- Experience operationalizing complex hardware and software infrastructure.
- Experience establishing service-transition or operational-readiness processes.
- Strong understanding of production infrastructure operations and support models.
- Experience developing technical training, competency, certification, or knowledge-management programs.
- Strong customer-facing and cross-functional communication skills.
- Ability to translate complex technical knowledge into scalable operational processes.
Benefits
- Job stability with startup vitality.
- A work culture that respects individual beliefs.