Data Center Technician Manager - CTJ - Poly

Microsoft’s Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) is the engine that powers our cloud services. As a Datacenter Technician Manager on the U.S. Government Airgap team, you will perform a key role in delivering the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft’s dedicated online services supporting the U.S. Government.

While our U.S. Government dedicated datacenter operations team has a sharp focus on serving our U.S. Government customers and helping them achieve federal missions, together, all of Microsoft’s Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than 100 datacenters and 1 million servers. Our foundation is built upon and managed by a team of subject matter experts working to support services for more than 1 billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 90 countries worldwide.

With environmental sustainability and optimization at the forefront of our datacenter design and operations, we continue to grow and evolve as we meet the ever-changing business demands that hold Microsoft as a world-class Cloud provider.

Be at the forefront of the action in CO+I as part of our global datacenter operations team.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

People Management

• Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.
• Model - Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles.
• Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn.
• Care - Attract and retain great people; Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.
• Promotes a positive and effective team environment by modeling best practices, leading regular team meetings and cross-discipline collaboration, and monitoring the status of work across their team.

Data Center Operations

• Shares expertise in and provides guidance on standard processes and procedures for preparing, installing, performing diagnostics, troubleshooting, replacing, and decommissioning equipment.
• Reviews process changes to evaluate impact on service execution and shares relevant information about change with stakeholders across functions and disciplines. 
• Provides guidance on and holds a team of technicians accountable for compliance with Data Center Services (DCS) business unit and service-level policies, procedures, deadlines, and service change policies. 
• Assigns tasks to technicians and monitors progress against Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and established Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Ensures work is appropriately prioritized and that resources and team capabilities are in place so that assigned tickets are completed within SLAs and meet KPIs.
• Analyzes data related to technicians' performance on tickets and shares with Operations Management.

Service Delivery

• Ensures technicians are trained on procedures for installation, deployment, replacement, and post-execution quality check processes.
• Investigates root causes of issues that may have impacted SLAs and takes proactive corrective action.
• Ensures that tasks assigned to technicians are appropriate for their individual capabilities and they have access to and complete relevant training.
• Shares updates with relevant stakeholders during service incidents and escalates issues with significant customer or business impact to appropriate experts and stakeholders.

Managing Services

• Exercises awareness and discretion to contribute to issue tracking, follow-up, and resolution; accountable for service compliance and quality; escalates issues through appropriate channels, follows-up on issue resolution, and shares knowledge related to issue resolution with appropriate teams; provides guidance to technicians around client interactions.
• Monitors services tickets and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and reports trends and se