Owns the technical health and delivery of a service, bridging engineering teams and service commitments.
Entry
Senior
Coding
Medium
Key skills
Career overview
The Technical Service Manager owns a service from both the technical and the delivery angle: architecture health, operational stability, engineering roadmap and SLA compliance. They translate service commitments into technical actions for the engineering teams and vice versa. The role leads to senior service delivery manager, IT service manager or IT operations manager.
Main responsibilities
- Manage service delivery and providers
- Monitor platform health, alerts and dashboards
- Lead incident resolution and post-mortem analysis
- Prepare and execute change requests in production
- Coordinate the technical work of the team
- Align stakeholders and report progress
- Write and improve operational runbooks
- Keep technical documentation up to date
- Mentor junior team members and review their work
- Prioritise work and manage competing demands
- Automate recurring tasks with scripts
- Follow capacity, performance and resource usage
Technical skills
Technologies
Education level
Education requirements vary depending on the company, country and experience. Professional experience, certifications and technical skills can sometimes compensate for formal education.
High School / Bac
Less common
Bac+2 (2-year degree)
Less common
Bac+3 (Bachelor)
Common entry point
Bac+5 (Master / Engineering)
Common entry point
Experience & coding level
Experience level
Coding level
Useful certifications
Certifications are never mandatory. They are one way among others to prove a skill.
- ITIL 4 Specialist (CDS)
- ITIL 4 Strategist
- CKA
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Overlap: 61% · Difficulty: Easy
Skills to learn: Provider strategy, Executive reporting, Team coaching
View roadmapOverlap: 62% · Difficulty: Easy
Skills to learn: Continuous improvement, Team leadership, Reporting & KPIs
View roadmapOverlap: 50% · Difficulty: Medium
Skills to learn: SLA & KPI, Budget, Strategy
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Soft skills
- Leadership
- Clear communication
- Problem solving
- Stakeholder management
- Rigour and attention to detail
- Mentoring
- Decisiveness
Common previous careers
Roles that frequently lead into this career.
Overlap: 49% · Difficulty: Medium
Skills to learn: SLA & SLO management, Incident & problem coordination, Engineering roadmap
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