Job Description
Overview:
Seismic is seeking an experienced, hands-on IT leader to serve as the senior technical presence for our India offices. This is not a pure people-management role — it is a high-level systems administration position with a people-leadership component. The Senior Manager, IT Operations will be the final escalation point for all technical IT issues in India, personally own day-to-day operations and troubleshooting, and lead a team spanning systems administration and helpdesk/support by doing the work alongside them — not simply directing others to do it.
Who you are:
- 8+ years of hands-on IT systems administration, infrastructure, or end-user support experience, including current, active technical work — not purely managerial.
- 3+ years leading or mentoring a technical team, ideally spanning both systems administration and helpdesk/support functions.
- Working knowledge of core enterprise IT tooling: identity/SSO (Azure AD), MDM (Jamf and/or Intune), ITSM/ticketing (Freshservice or similar), major cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), and security tooling.
- A demonstrated track record as a doer — someone who resolves issues directly and leads by example, not someone who only delegates.
- Experience operating within a US-headquartered multinational’s India office; SaaS or enterprise software company experience preferred.
- Comfortable operating in a matrixed, dual solid-line reporting structure, balancing global functional direction with local execution and people leadership.
- Strong troubleshooting, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills under time pressure.
- Clear, direct communicator, able to escalate risk transparently to both local and global stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
What you’ll be doing:
- Serve as the final escalation point for all technical IT issues across Seismic’s India offices, spanning systems, network, endpoint, identity, and helpdesk-tier issues.
- Own day-to-day IT operations for India — infrastructure administration, incident response, and end-user support — personally diagnosing and resolving issues rather than only assigning them.
- Directly manage, coach, and mentor India-based IT staff across both systems administration/integrations and helpdesk/support, setting the standard by leading from the front.
- Partner closely with the Sr. Director, IT and global IT functional leads to align India execution with global IT strategy, standards, and tooling (Jamf/Intune, Azure AD, Freshservice, Rapid7, 1Password, and similar).
- Own local hiring, performance management, and workload prioritization for the India IT team within approved budget, consistent with the India GM operating model.
- Drive local IT security posture and compliance execution (patching, endpoint management, incident response) in partnership with global Security and IT leadership.
- Identify and implement automation and self-service improvements (Workato, Freshservice Service Catalog, AI tools) to reduce ticket volume and manual effort rather than defaulting to added headcount or process.
- Provide clear, timely communication to global IT leadership on India IT health, risks, incidents, and escalations.
- Represent India IT in regional and global operating rhythms as needed.
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