
Service Desk Manager - Platform Support
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Innovative Solutions: We combine cutting-edge technology with expert judgment to deliver market-leading services in trademark clearance, brand protection, and anti-counterfeiting.
- Global Impact: Trusted by over 5,000 customers worldwide, including 73 of Fortune's Top 100 companies, our work has a meaningful impact on businesses and consumers alike.
- Collaborative Culture: With a team of over 1,900 professionals across multiple global offices, you'll be joining an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives thrive.
- Mission-Driven Purpose: Our commitment to protecting consumers and their trust in brands drives everything we do, making Corsearch a force for good in the world.
- Lead L1/L2 support teams with defined KPIs, SLAs, and customer-centric practices.
- Establish new L1/L2 support capability for a bespoke platform.
- Act as escalation point for unresolved or high-priority incidents.
- Hire, train, and mentor support staff.
- Standardise on-call processes across Platform Support, CloudOps, DevOps, and Engineering teams.
- Ensure monitoring, alerting, and uptime visibility is in place across all services.
- Own the end-to-end incident lifecycle: detection, resolution, and post-incident review.
- Lead major incident response and ensure effective stakeholder communication.
- Identify trends to proactively prevent issues.
- Administer and configure JIRA Service Management, OpsGenie, Checkly.
- Automate workflows, escalations, and reporting.
- Maintain dashboards, reports, and performance analytics.
- Drive process improvement and automation across incident and request handling.
- Maintain a solutions repository and promote self-service.
- Ensure smooth collaboration with IT and engineering teams.
- Build strong relationships with internal teams and vendors.
- Report on service performance and share insights with leadership.
- Communicate effectively during outages to minimise business disruption.
- Hands-on incident management and technical escalation.
- Proficient Windows user with experience using Scheduler, Event Viewer, IIS.
- Scripting skills (any): PowerShell, Python, Java, C#, Go, JavaScript.
- Database querying experience (any): SQL, Elasticsearch.
- Basic knowledge of web architecture: front-end, back-end, APIs.
- Exposure to cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, GCP) is a plus.
- Understanding of messaging brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ) is a plus.
- Proven experience leading L1/L2 support in a multi-platform environment.
- Strong understanding of ITIL-aligned incident management.
- Advanced expertise in Jira Service Management and related tools.
- Solid leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working across IT infrastructure, networks, and bespoke applications.
- ITIL v3/v4 certification or equivalent practical experience.
- Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
- Jira Service Management certification is an advantage.