
Senior Service Operations Specialist
- Cairo
- Permanent
- Full-time
- To ensure the Service Operations team adheres to the highest working standards for all incidents and problems by providing guidance, support, and direct management.
- Provide Service Operations support to internal and external customers in accordance with the terms of the customer contract and Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- Ensure the correct functioning and maintenance of all internal and external systems and products serviced by Service Operations.
- When required, act as the customer SPOC and coordinate the scheduling of intervention with Customer, internal resolver groups, and the Service Desk ensuring the highest level of customer service and communications are maintained to resolve the fault and incident within the prescribed SLA.
- Carry out incident and problem management support to the highest standards and co-ordinate the resolution with the appropriate resolver groups.
- Ensure the shortest restoral times possible, initiating the timely escalations to specialized resolver groups inside and outside SITA, according to the customer contracts, SLAs, and monitoring requirements.
- Proactively detect problems related to service and infrastructure operations and delivery services, conduct diagnostics, and provide service request ownership to ensure resolution of customer problems.
- Adhere to installation guidelines and industry best practices in order to deliver quality service and infrastructure operations.
- Use the appropriate tools and equipment to perform the installation, intervention, and repairs in accordance with Service Operations and Delivery guidelines and instructions where provided.
- Report and escalate to the next level those problems which cannot be fixed.
- Carry out preventive and proactive maintenance of equipment and monitoring of systems and services in accordance with agreed schedules and customer expectations.
- Perform Change Management, Configurations, Design, and Implementation of the supported Products & Systems.
- Continuously identify and document lessons learned, known errors, and operational knowledge for improved services
- When/where required, be contactable for escalations and support, on and on-call standby basis.
- When/where required, perform assigned tasks on a 24 x 7 shift basis.
- Degree in Computer Science in Electronic Engineering or equivalent.
- 4–5 years of experience in Windows System Administration
- Experience and knowledge of database technologies, especially Microsoft SQL Server.
- Working experience on Azure Services, especially ARM templates, as well as AWS.
- Proven experience operating and supporting mission-critical applications (eg.incident and outage management)
- Proven experience in problem-solving issues on globally distributed systems and critical product service environment
- Experience in organizing activities with other stakeholders while maintaining the ownership of issues till resolution.
- Exemplify improvement of procedures, and tools to reduce efforts and improve quality using SITA’s Continuous Improvement methodology.
- Knowledge of ITIL frameworks and best practices
- Experience in the airline industry