Operations Team Leader overseeing Network Operations Centre for ARO, ensuring service stability and team coordination.
Responsibilities
Provide hands-on support as required during peak demand, major incidents, or complex escalations, including active triage and coordination to restore service quickly.
Maintain operational oversight of incidents, requests, and maintenance activities during the shift; ensure escalation triggers and comms are applied consistently.
Coordinate operational support activities impacting data centre environments (e.g., access/remote hands coordination, platform availability, planned works impacts, and restoration activities), working with relevant internal teams and suppliers.
Run structured shift handovers, ensuring accurate operational status, risks, and priorities are captured and transferred
Coordinate shift rotas and resourcing, including short notice cover and adherence to handover discipline, to maintain effective 24/7 operational coverage.
Act as the first-line management escalation point for operational issues (technical prioritisation, process adherence, ticket quality, customer impact), escalating to senior leadership / technical leadership where required.
Lead the operational response to Major Incidents when required, ensuring clear stakeholder updates, escalation control, and timely service restoration (including out-of-hours).
Coordinate planned maintenance execution via CAB (including patching / monitoring / resilience checks) within agreed windows, ensuring approvals, pre-requisites, risk/impact assessment, and stakeholder comms are in place.
Monitor operational KPIs at shift level (e.g., response, resolution, backlog, SLA risk signals) and raise risks early.
Support customer service review meetings (e.g., monthly/quarterly), providing operational performance input (KPIs, incident themes, improvement actions) and ensuring agreed actions are owned and tracked through to closure.
Support pre-sales activities where required, providing operational input to solution design and service transition planning (e.g., support model, monitoring, on-call, documentation, and BAU readiness)
Coach engineers on ticket quality, communications, and process adherence; contribute to training plans and progression inputs with line management.
Participate in post-incident reviews and contribute operational evidence / timelines to RCA.
Support compliance activity by ensuring operational records, audit trails, and evidence are produced through standard tooling and process.
Requirements
Experience leading or supervising a technical operations, service desk, or NOC team in an MSP, ISP, or enterprise IT environment.
Working knowledge of incident management, escalation, and ITIL-aligned operational practices.
Ability to coordinate a multi-skill frontline team under time pressure, maintaining structure and clear communications.
Operational understanding of common infrastructure and network platforms (e.g., VMware, Azure, Fortinet, Cisco, Veeam) sufficient to triage, prioritise, and escalate effectively.
Experience supporting services within data centre environments (co-location or owned facilities), including operational considerations for availability, change windows, and coordinated restoration.
Stakeholder Communication: Strong skills for internal coordination and operational customer updates.
ITIL v4 Foundation certification.
Experience supporting services across cloud and partner hosting environments.
Experience in a 24/7 or shift-based environment.
Exposure to regulated / governance-driven environments (e.g., ISO 27001 and NHS service contexts).
Familiarity with BAU delivery frameworks and operational governance processes.
Exposure to escalation coordination with Tier 3 / Technical Leads.
Ability to contribute to process improvement, operational efficiency, and service quality initiatives.
Hands-on experience with multi-vendor infrastructure environments, enhancing operational flexibility.
Benefits
Company Pension Scheme and matching contributions
Company Perks portal
Private Medical insurance
Life assurance
25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus holiday trading
Your Birthday off, on us!
Health Club and Wellbeing Scheme
ARO Shares after 12 months employment
Employee Assistance Programme
Technical Training Academy and E-learning
Hybrid working
Job title
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