About Ekco
Founded in 2016, Ekco is now one of the fastest growing cloud solution providers in Europe!
We specialise in enabling companies to progress along the path of cloud maturity, managing transformation and driving better outcomes from our clients’ existing technology investments.
In a few words, we take businesses to the cloud and back!
We have over 1000 highly talented and supportive colleagues (and counting) across a number of regional offices in the UK, Benelux & Ireland.
The role
We are looking for a talented and dedicated leader to join the Public Cloud team here at Ekco which looks after all products and systems related to our public cloud customers. This team focuses on maintaining and supporting the cloud services we provide to our customers, ensuring the highest standards of availability, performance, and customer satisfaction. In this role you’ll manage a team of engineers delivering world-class 24x7 support services across our public cloud environments. You’ll ensure operational excellence and serve as the go-to escalation point for critical issues.
Key Responsibilities
As the Ekco Cloud Support Manager you will play a key role in:
* Leading a team of cloud services specialist engineers, delivering public cloud services to defined SLAs.
* Providing technical coaching and leadership to team members as the SME in the team ensuring that technical documentation is maintained and kept up to date in line with Ekco standards and policies.
* Acting as an escalation point for client issues taking ownership until the issue is resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
* Leading daily workload stand-ups with critical stakeholders both internally and externally.
* Overseeing 24/7 technical support operations, including management of an on-call rota.
* Driving adherence to processes, and where gaps exist, collaborating to define new ones.
* Ensuring SLA and KPI compliance, reporting on team performance weekly and monthly.
* Taking ownership of your respective technology tower to ensure award-winning service is delivered.
* Leading by example ensuring your team and others are living up to the standards we all set.
* Going above and beyond to deliver, not accepting just good service; good is not good enough, only excellent will do. Constantly looking for opportunities to improve the service we offer.
* Working with other tower leaders to ensure no ticket/piece of work gets left behind.
* Continually developing knowledge of industry best practices and standards.
* Ensuring processes are followed and where processes don’t exist, helping to define them.
* Ensuring SLAs and KPIs are hit for yours and your peers’ towers, reporting weekly & monthly to demonstrate this.
* Regularly conducting 1-2-1s with the team ensuring each team member has objectives and a CDP in place.
* Acting as a single point of contact for presales activity in your respective tower, bringing together resources to support sales activities.
About You
You will have:
* A strong customer focus, with an ability to continually anticipate and meet customers’ needs excelling in communicating at all levels within a customer organisation.
* An excellent working knowledge of Azure Services, Compute, Relational and NoSQL Databases, Caching, Object and Block Storage, Scaling, Load Balancing, CDNs, Networking, Containers, AKS etc.
* Experience of hosting web applications across a wide variety of Webserver and Database technologies.
* Experience of multiple different monitoring tools such as PRTG, Azure Monitor, SolarWinds, Logic Monitor to name just a few.
* Experience of managing production environments across Physical, Virtualised and Cloud technologies.
* Knowledge of DevOps best practices and CI/CD tools.
* Ability to collaborate with and manage diverse cross-functional teams for successful customer outcomes.
* A minimum of 5 years’ experience working in a Technical Management role for a Cloud Managed Services provider.
* Experience in supporting the growth of talented and skilled engineers while maintaining a highly engaged team.
* Experience in working to ensure customer solutions and services comply with the relevant product standards and internal documentation (in accordance with ISO certification).
* Experience of managing a 24/7 technical support operations including management of an on-call rota.
The Desirables
* Understanding of Service Management best practices frameworks such as ITIL.
* Experience with an Azure Expert MSP partner or AWS Equivalent.
Benefits/Perks
* Time off - 25 days leave + public holidays.
* 1 day Birthday leave per year.
* Company Pension Scheme (employer contribution 5%) + flexible salary sacrifice.
* Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) - access to dedicated mental health, emotional wellbeing and general advice.
* EkcOlympics - a global activity for fun!
* Learning & development - Unlimited access to Pluralsight learning platform.
* A lot of responsibilities & opportunities to grow (also internationally).
Why Ekco
* Microsoft’s 2023 Rising Star Security Partner of the year.
* VMware & Veeam top partner status.
* Ranked as 4th fastest growing technology company in the Deloitte Fast50 Awards.
* Ekco is committed to cultivating an environment that promotes diversity, equality, inclusion, and belonging.
* We recognise the value of internal mobility and encourage opportunities for internal development & progression.
* Flexible working with a family-friendly focus are at the core of our company values.
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