Noc Manager: Problem and Service Assurance

5 days ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Dark Fibre Africa Full time

Main Purpose

This role covers the following main areas of responsibility:

- Problem & Risk Management
- Service Assurance Management
- Incident Analytics supported by Report Management

Critically analyse incident data across Layer 1 and Layer 2 services with the key focus on performance and produce the necessary reporting internally for improvement and externally for customer performance assessments.

**Accountabilities & Responsibilities**

Managing the life cycle of problem tickets brought to light by the relevant stakeholders within the disciplines of Problem, Risk and Service Assurance Management
- Analyzing historical data to identify and eliminate potential incidents before they occur
- Proactive Problem identification and recording
- Problem investigation and diagnosis
- Perform advanced issue analysis and resolution
- Address major incident escalations that leads to a problem issue
- Identifying underlying causes of incidents and preventing recurrences - Developing workarounds or other solutions to incidents where possible - If temporary, create a long-term plan for a permanent resolution to be applied
- Ensuring that planned work to mitigate these problems are sent to change management as required to eliminate known problems
- Document known errors / possible solutions and knowledge articles
- Problem resolution and closure
- Take the service schedules & SLAs developed through the value proposition development phase, develop them to contract quality and deliver them for inclusion in the schedules of the master services agreement
- Drive validation processes by obtaining sign-off from technical, service and financial profiles
- Understand, manage and influence client operating models
- Segmented Customer engagement to ensure Service Assurance Management and practices are outlined

Critically analyse incident data across Layer 1 and Layer 2 services with the key focus on performance and produce the necessary reporting internally for improvement and externally for customer performance assessments
- Service Availability
- Service Quality
- Customer Experience
- Incident Management
- Network Performance
- Churn Rate
- Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Compliance
- Operational Efficiency
- Field Service Metrics
- Customer Support Metrics

Knowledge, skills, and qualifications
- Tertiary qualification in management.
- 10+ years’ experience in similar role and responsibility in the telecommunications and technology industries with focus on Service Management and Problem Resolution as key deliverable.
- Computer literacy (MS Office, i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook).
- Exceptional people engagement skills.
- General business knowledge.
- Good knowledge of ITIL, with an ITIL qualification will be advantageous.
- Proven track record of and exposure and engagement on executive and senior management levels within organizations.

Working Conditions
- The role typically involves working in an office environment.
- Some travel may be required
- Flexibility to work extra hours during peak periods or project deadlines

**Closing date for Applications is the 3rd of October 2024


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