Global Service Delivery Manager

Teceze India; Thiruvananthapuram; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Flexible working hours

Job summary

A leading IT infrastructure company in Kerala is seeking a Service Delivery Manager (SDM) to oversee the end-to-end delivery and governance of critical infrastructure services. This role involves managing communication between customers, service teams, and partners while ensuring compliance with service levels. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong service delivery ownership and the ability to manage multiple projects efficiently. Comprehensive understanding of infrastructures, such as private cloud, servers, and networking, is essential. This position presents opportunities for continuous improvement and stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in managing IT Infrastructure programs.
• Strong understanding of ITIL practices related to service management.
• Excellent communication skills to engage with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own service delivery performance and adherence to SLAs.
• Lead incident and change governance to ensure service stability.
• Manage budgets, forecasting, and cost tracking for projects.

Skills

Service delivery ownership

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Governance management

Technical understanding of networking

Education

Relevant IT Infrastructure Certification

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

VMware

Networking tools

Service management tools

Job description

The Service Delivery Manager (SDM) – IT Infrastructure is accountable for end-to-end delivery and operational governance of infrastructure programs and services across network projects, private cloud platforms, server and storage estates, and EUC refresh initiatives. This role ensures predictable outcomes across scope, schedule, cost, and quality while maintaining service stability and meeting SLA/OLA commitments. The SDM acts as the primary interface between customers, internal delivery teams, OEM/partners, and leadership—driving governance, risk management, customer satisfaction, and continual improvement.

Key Responsibilities

1) Service Delivery & Operations Governance

• Own service delivery performance for assigned infrastructure services and projects, ensuring adherence to SLAs/OLAs/KPIs.
• Establish and run governance cadence: daily/weekly operational reviews, project steering meetings, monthly service reviews (MSR/QBR).
• Lead incident, problem, and change governance for infrastructure domains, ensuring minimal disruption and strong root cause prevention.
• Ensure compliance with ITIL practices (Incident/Problem/Change/Release/Configuration/Service Level Mgmt).
• Drive stability and resilience outcomes: availability, capacity, performance, continuity, and security posture.

2) Infrastructure Project Delivery (Network / Cloud / DC / EUC)

• Manage delivery of infrastructure programs/projects such as:
• Private cloud deployments/expansion (VMware/Hyper‑V/OpenStack or equivalent), virtualization improvements, standardization.
• Server lifecycle projects (refresh, consolidation, DC migrations, hardware standardization).
• Storage projects (SAN/NAS refresh, tiering, replication, backup integration, performance tuning).
• EUC refresh (laptop/desktop lifecycle, imaging, packaging, rollout waves, migration, disposal, asset updates).
• Create/own project plans, delivery schedules, RAID logs, cutover runbooks, and deployment governance.
• Ensure effective coordination across infrastructure towers, vendors, and client stakeholders.
• Act as the single accountable owner for customer‑facing delivery conversations and escalations.
• Build strong relationships with customer IT leadership, site IT teams, and key business stakeholders.
• Translate customer needs into actionable delivery requirements and manage expectations transparently.
• Communicate status, risks, dependencies, and outcomes in an executive‑ready manner.
• Manage budgets, forecasting, and cost tracking for projects/services (CapEx/OpEx where applicable).
• Control service/project scope through change control and ensure commercial alignment.
• Validate vendor invoices, milestone sign‑offs, and deliverables acceptance as per contract/SOW.
• Support renewals, service expansions, and proposals with delivery inputs and effort estimates.
• Manage OEMs and partners (e.g., Cisco/HP/Dell/Lenovo/VMware/Microsoft and others as applicable).
• Ensure vendors meet timelines, quality expectations, documentation standards, and SLA obligations.
• Coordinate logistics for EUC/infra refresh (procurement alignment, dispatch, warranty/RMA, spares).
• Define and track metrics such as SLA attainment, incident trends, change success rate, project milestone adherence, backlog, CSAT.
• Produce weekly/monthly dashboards and exec summaries with clear narrative and actions.
• Drive process maturity: standard operating procedures, runbooks, knowledge articles, automation opportunities.
• Lead post‑implementation reviews and embed lessons learned into future rollouts.

7) Risk, Security, Compliance & Audit Readiness

• Maintain and report risks, ensure mitigation plans are active and tracked to closure.
• Ensure compliance with security policies and standards (hardening, patching governance, access controls).
• Support audits and maintain evidence for delivery, change approvals, asset records, and configuration baselines.
• Service governance calendar (Ops reviews/MSR/QBR) and performance dashboards
• Project plans, RAID logs, cutover plans, implementation runbooks
• SLA/OLA compliance reports and improvement plans
• Vendor delivery governance and acceptance documentation
• Knowledge base artifacts, SOPs, standard templates
• Continuous improvement roadmap (automation, standardization, process maturity)

Core Delivery & Leadership

• Strong service delivery ownership mindset and ability to run governance confidently.
• Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation, and escalation handling.
• Structured execution: planning, prioritization, dependency management, risk management.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent infrastructure programs with tight timelines.

Technical Breadth (Infrastructure)

• Solid understanding of:
• Networking: LAN/WAN, routing/switching concepts, Wi‑Fi, firewalls, VPN, SD‑WAN (conceptual/operational).
• Private cloud / virtualization: VMware/Hyper‑V concepts, clusters, capacity planning, provisioning, HA/DR basics.
• Servers: lifecycle, DC operations, patching, monitoring, OS provisioning concepts (Windows/Linux fundamentals).
• Storage & backup: SAN/NAS, replication, snapshots, backup integration and recovery concepts.
• EUC: device lifecycle, imaging, rollout planning, user migration, endpoint security tooling basics.
• Comfortable collaborating with architects/engineers; able to challenge plans and validate feasibility.