Manager - Infrastructure and Security Operations Center

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This open position is for Armanino India LLP. Armanino India LLP is a fully owned subsidiary of Armanino (USA).

Responsibilities

• Lead the India-based Infrastructure and Security Operations Center team responsible for day-to-day operational response

• Manage, coach, and hold accountable a team of 4-6 infrastructure and security operations resources

• Ensure work is prioritized, assigned, tracked, and completed according to defined operating procedures

• Maintain clear daily visibility into open escalations, alert activity, aging issues, and follow-up items

• Escalate risks, blockers, recurring issues, and operational gaps to New York-based leadership

• Oversee triage and escalation of infrastructure incidents across network, server, cloud, identity, endpoint, and workspace environments

• Ensure the team follows approved runbooks for investigation, validation, documentation, and escalation

• Coordinate response for service-impacting infrastructure issues and communicate status clearly

• Partner with New York-based infrastructure, platform, and engineering teams on escalated issues

• Respond to infrastructure escalations with extreme urgency and ensure issues are followed through to resolution or proper handoff

• Identifyrepeat issues and recommend process, monitoring, or automation improvements

• Oversee initial review, triage, documentation, and escalation of cybersecurity alerts

• Ensure alert handling follows approved security runbooks and escalation paths

• Coordinate with cybersecurity, compliance, and infrastructure teams on incidents that require deeper investigation

• Track alert volume, response quality, handoffs, and follow-up actions

• Raise patterns, control gaps, and recurring alert issues to New York-based leadership

• Ensure all infrastructure and cybersecurity escalations are handled according to defined runbooks

• Maintain consistency in ticket documentation, alert notes, handoffs, and escalation summaries

• Review runbook gaps and recommend updates based on recurring operational issues

• Confirm team members understand expected response steps, communication standards, and escalation thresholds

• Drive a culture of repeatable execution, ownership, and follow-through

• Maintain constant communication with the Director of Core Technology in New York on operational priorities, escalations, and team performance

• Provide concise status updates on active incidents, alerts, risks, and follow-up actions

• Work directly with New York-based teams to ensure clean handoffs, shared visibility, and consistent ownership

• Participate in regular operational reviews, escalation discussions, and planning sessions with U.S.-based leadership

• Ensure availability to work with New York-based teams until at least 12:00 PM Eastern Time

• Set clear expectations for team responsiveness, documentation, escalation quality, and follow-through

• Review workload, ticket quality, alert handling, and operational performance across the India-based team

• Coach team members on technical troubleshooting, communication, prioritization, and ownership

• Ensure staffing coverage supports business needs,monitoringrequirements, and escalation timelines

• Create transparency around team capacity, blockers, skill gaps, and improvement opportunities

Requirements

• 7+ years in infrastructure operations, security operations, network operations, systems administration, or related technology operations role

• 4+ years leading or supervising technical operations resources

• Experience managing escalations,monitoringalerts, incident response, and operational handoffs

• Experience working with U.S.-based or global technology teams

• Experienceoperatingin a structured runbook, ticketing, monitoring, and escalation environment

• Infrastructure operations across network, server, cloud, identity, endpoint, and collaboration platforms

• Cybersecurity monitoring concepts, alert triage, escalation handling, and incident documentation

• Monitoring and alerting tools, ticketing systems, dashboards, and operational reporting

• Consistent hands-on work with monitoring solutions to improve visibility, alert quality, response accuracy, and operational follow-through

• Windows Server, Active Directory, Microsoft 365, Azure, endpoint management, and network fundamentals

• Incident management, problem management, change awareness, and operational handoff practices

• Runbook execution, process documentation, escalation procedures, and service operations discipline

• Strong people leadership, coaching, accountability, and workload management skills

• Clear, concise communication with New York-based leadership and cross-functional teams

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to keep leadership informed during active issues, escalations, and operational handoffs

• Strong judgment on when to resolve, escalate, or requestadditionalsupport

• Ability to manage multiple operational priorities whilemaintainingaccuracy and urgency

• Extremeownership mindset with strong documentation, follow-through,accountability,and attention to detailfor all assigned responsibilities

• Self-starter who canidentifyissues,take action, improve monitoring coverage, and drive work forward without waiting for step-by-step direction

• Demonstrates extreme urgency when responding to escalations, alerts, incidents, and time-sensitive operational issues

• Availability to overlap with New York-based teams through at least 12:00 PM Eastern Time

• Experience managing an offshore or India-based technology operations team supporting U.S. stakeholders

• Experience in professional services, consulting, financial services, or other high-accountability enterprise environments

• Experience with Microsoft security, endpoint, identity, and cloud operations tools

• Experience improving runbooks, alert tuning, dashboards, or operational reporting

• ITIL, SOC, NOC, or service operations background

• Certifications: ITIL Foundation, Network+, Security+, Azure Fundamentals, SC-900, AZ-104, or equivalent

Compensation and Benefits

• Compensation:Commensurate with Industry standards

• Other Benefits:Provident Fund, Gratuity, Medical Insurance, Group Personal Accident Insurance etc. employment benefits depending on the position.

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