REQUIREMENTS
- 10+ years of experience in software support and development
- Experience with business- or mission-critical systems
- Experience of work in/for large corporation with sophisticated IT landscape
- Profound knowledge and practical skills in support, tools, environments and processes
- Development of support team KPIs for performance and efficiency measuring and improving
- Understanding of different development and support methodologies and concepts (Waterfall/Agile/Kanban, ITIL/ITSM, DevOps etc)
- Corporate IT environment analysis and transformation experience
- Good experience in specialized areas of IT such as:
- Network fault finding and diagnostics (routing, VPN, DNS, DHCP, proxy, firewall etc)
- Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP or OpenStack)
- Container orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm or similar)
- Databases design and operation (MS SQL, MySQL/Maria DB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB etc)
- CI/CD tools (Teamcity, Jenkins, CircleCI, Hudson)
- Automating Ops tools(Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Yeoman, CloudFormation, Packer or Terraform)
- QC and monitoring systems (Zabbix, Twistlock, SonarQube, Prometheus, cAdvisor, DataDog etc)
- Use (and be a fan of) different AI tools
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to provide coaching to the staff at an individual, team, and company level
- Excellent interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills
- Highly motivated, disciplined, with an ability to manage competing priorities
- Technical university master’s degree/PhD
- English upper intermediate or higher (desired level - advanced)
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop competence strategy, research and collect training materials and knowledge libraries for internal company use.
- Identify expertise directions of the stream based on the company strategy. Plan and facilitate stream expertise development.
- Develop functional areas by engaging leading experts to share an experience.
- Gather and provide actual information on the qualification of stream members.
- Develop and maintain the process of career path development for stream members. Involve experts into this process.
- Provide recommendations or comments when hiring or dismissing employees within the stream.
- Consult on requirements to application and infrastructure support working processes, environment, tools and KPIs.
- Define support project implementation road maps.
- Support the Engagement team in pre-sales providing the expertise, methodology vision, and estimates.
- Develop and maintain the process of interviewing internal and external candidates (including verification of attitude, motivation, behavior etc.).
- Conduct internal staff competency assessment (“matrix”), perform competency analysis and organize lectures, seminars, stream talks, knowledge and experience sharing sessions, and other forms of training.
- Organize and perform internal staff coaching and mentoring programs.
- Take part in organizing external education (for students, employees of regional offices etc.) within the competence area.
- Participate in Performance Reviews of leading domain experts and be responsible for engaging experts to be stream representatives during Performance Review of other steam members.
- Take ownership and responsibility and distribute the tasks among the team to resolve customer requests in accordance with SLAs according to ITIL protocols.
- Be the point of contact when it comes to technical escalations and technical advisory.
- Clearly communicate the project status to the Project managers and provide monthly reports.
- Ensure that all customer inquiries and issues are solved correctly and in a prompt and professional manner
- Approve technical decisions and communicate with stakeholders. Analyze variants of software requirements implementation; evaluate their time-consumption and workload.
- Work with internal and external L2 and L3 members to diagnose/resolve platform issues and carry out maintenance
- Accountable for:
- Performance of functional roles and instructions of the superior, as well as supervision of the subordinates in terms of their operational duties.
- Performance in accordance with the current administrative, criminal, and civil legislation of Ukraine, the internal labour regulations of the Company, fire safety rules, and information security regulations.