Sr Team Lead Technical Services

TheSr Technical Services Team Leadat OTAVA is responsible for overseeing a team of technical professionals who provide high-quality managed cloud and infrastructure services to clients. This role involves a combination of leadership technical expertise and strategic problem-solving to ensure exceptional service delivery process efficiency and continuous improvement.

Role Responsibilities:

• Lead mentor and develop a team of Technical Services professionals to ensure high performance and career growth.
• Manage daily operations including incident resolution service request fulfillment and escalations.
• Act as a technical escalation point providing guidance and hands-on support for complex customer issues.
• Ensure adherence to service level agreements (SLAs) and proactively address potential service delivery challenges.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Engineering Product and Customer Success to improve service offerings and customer experience.
• Drive process improvements and automation initiatives to enhance operational efficiency.
• Develop and maintain documentation training materials and best practices for the Technical Services team.
• Participate in technical assessments audits and compliance initiatives to ensure adherence to industry standards.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of cloud security and infrastructure technologies relevant to OTAVAs service offerings.
• Support strategic planning for resource allocation capacity management and team scalability.

Experience:

• Strong hands-on experience with VMware technologies including vSphere ESXi vCenter virtual machine administration host and cluster management and enterprise virtualization support.

• Experience supporting VMware-based private cloud hosted cloud or managed infrastructure environments.

  5 years of experience in technical support managed services or IT infrastructure roles.
• 2 years of experience in a leadership or supervisory capacity.
• Strong expertise in cloud computing virtualization networking and cybersecurity.

Required Experience Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Strong understanding of VMware/Broadcom enterprise virtualization technologies and the ability to troubleshoot issues across compute storage networking and virtual machine layers.

  Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with a customer-focused approach.
• Proven ability to coach mentor and develop technical staff.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Relevant industry certifications (e.g. AWS Azure VMware ITIL CISSP).
• Experience with automation tools and scripting languages (e.g. PowerShell Python).
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 HIPAA and PCI DSS.

Education:

• Bachelors degree in a technology related field

Licensing/Certifications:

• Certification will be required to be completed within the first year of employment

What We Offer:

Hybrid work competitive compensation package base ( $89k - $100k annually) 401(k) with company match medical dental vision HSA options life and disability insurance generous flexible PTO paid holidays paid volunteer time off paid parental leave professional development opportunities and an Employee Assistance Program.

At Otava we are people empowering people to enable growth. We are excited for you to join us!

As a global leader in secure compliant enterprise-class cloud hosting we deliver a full range of solutions from colocation to private and hybrid cloud computing. Were creative thinkers who love to serve others automate where possible and change when required. Above all we love to help our clients. We aim for superior client service in everything we do and strive to get even better.

Application Window: Applications are anticipated to close four (4) weeks from the posting date unless extended based on business need.

OTAVA is committed to equal employment opportunity and compliance with all applicable pay transparency requirements.

Required Experience:

Senior IC