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We are currently seeking a Service Delivery Manager to join our team in Noida, Uttar Pradesh (IN-UP), India (IN).

Service Delivery Manager
8-10 Years Experience
Acts as the primary interface between the customer and the support/vendor
organization, ensuring high service availability, operational stability, and continuous
improvement of the AI/ML platform.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
. Service Ownership: Serve as the single point of contact for all support and servicerelated interactions between client team and support/vendor organization.
. Incident Management: Ensure system uptime (99.5%+ SLA) through timely tracking
and resolution of incidents and service requests. Manage P1/P2/P3/P4 incidents per
defined SLAs.
. Support Operations: Manage and publish weekly support rosters to ensure
uninterrupted 8x7 coverage (8 AM to 8 PM, 7 days/week). Plan for holidays, leaves,
and contingencies.
. Resource Management: Allocate and rotate support staff (15-25 people) to ensure
balanced workloads, skill development, and backup availability across L1, L2, and L3
support tiers.
. Lifecycle Management: Oversee end-to-end incident lifecycle from ticket creation
through resolution including logging, categorization, prioritization, assignment,
escalations, and closure.
. Root Cause Analysis: Conduct thorough RCA for critical incidents (P1/P2) and
implement preventive measures. Track recurring issues and drive permanent fixes.
. Cross-functional Coordination: Coordinate cross-functional teams including
DevOps, backend developers, AI/ML engineers, database administrators, and
infrastructure support.
. Service Reviews: Conduct weekly service reviews with delivery teams and monthly
business reviews with stakeholders covering KPIs, incident trends, and improvement
plans.
. SLA Management: Monitor and report on SLA compliance (response time, resolution
time, uptime). Take corrective actions for SLA breaches.
. Knowledge Management: Build and maintain knowledge base, runbooks,
troubleshooting guides, and FAQs. Ensure knowledge transfer and documentation.
. Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous improvement initiatives including
automation of repetitive tasks, process optimization, self-service capabilities, and
proactive monitoring.
. Vendor Management: Manage relationships with third-party vendors, cloud
providers, and tool vendors. Track vendor SLAs and escalate issues.
. Change Management: Participate in change advisory board (CAB) meetings. Assess
impact of changes on service stability and user experience.
. Capacity Planning: Monitor resource utilization, ticket volumes, and support team
capacity. Plan for scaling support operations based on growth.
CORE COMPETENCIES
. IT service delivery management with ITIL v3/v4 framework expertise.
. Incident, problem, and change management using tools like ServiceNow, Jira Service
Management, or Zendesk.
. Enterprise support operations (8x7 or 24x7 environments) with multi-tier support
models.
. Cross-functional coordination across technical teams and business stakeholders.
. Service metrics, reporting, and continuous improvement (KPIs: MTTR, MTBF, First Call
Resolution, Customer Satisfaction).
. SLA management and performance tracking with experience in penalty/bonus
structures.
. Cloud platform operations (AWS, Azure, GCP) and monitoring tools (Datadog, New
Relic, Prometheus).
. Communication and escalation management with ability to handle high-pressure
situations.
KEY DELIVERABLES
. Weekly support rosters with 8x7 coverage allocation and backup plans.
. Daily incident reports, weekly service summaries, and monthly performance
dashboards.
. SLA compliance reports with trend analysis and improvement recommendations.
. Root cause analysis (RCA) reports for critical incidents with corrective/preventive
actions.
. Knowledge base articles, runbooks, and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
. Service improvement plans with automation initiatives and process optimizations.
. Capacity planning reports and resource utilization metrics.
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
. System uptime: 99.5%+ monthly average
. P1 incident response time:
. P1 incident resolution time:
. P2 incident resolution time:
. First Call Resolution (FCR): >70%
. Mean Time To Repair (MTTR):
. Customer Satisfaction (CSAT): >4.0/5.0
. SLA compliance: >95%
QUALIFICATIONS
. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field.
. ITIL v3/v4 Foundation certification required ITIL Expert/Managing Professional
preferred.
. Certified in incident/problem management or service management frameworks.
. 8-10 years of IT experience with 4+ years in service delivery management roles.
. Experience managing support operations for AI/ML platforms, cloud services, or SaaS
products.
. Proven track record of achieving 99%+ uptime SLAs in production environments

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