Fenix24 is an industry-leading cyber disaster recovery and restoration company. Battling threat actors as The World’s First Civilian Cybersecurity Force, Fenix24 delivers cybersecurity services through its four battalions: Fenix24 for ransomware recovery and restoration; Athena7 for IT security assessments, strategy and planning; Grypho5 for ongoing security-based management; and Argos99 for expert insights into data, assets and infrastructure. Under its Securitas Summa program, Fenix24 ensures organizations are prepared to effectively resist and rapidly recover from a cyberattack, offering a combination of managed data and infrastructure protection, real-time threat intelligence, and ongoing hardening and breach resistance.
Grypho5 is one of four battalions fighting threat actors on the front lines of the global cyber war. As part of The World’s First Civilian Cybersecurity Force, Grypho5 specializes in comprehensive, security-based managed solutions using real-time, proprietary threat intelligence to ensure an organization's defenses are prepared to effectively resist and rapidly recover from a cyberattack.
About This Position
The Director of Managed Services is the senior operational leader responsible for the end-to-end delivery, quality, and continuous improvement of the organization’s managed services portfolio. This role consolidates accountability for both technical service delivery and network operations, providing a single point of leadership across all service lines, Managed Backup, Managed Identity, Managed Endpoint, and Managed Network/Firewall.
The Director partners closely with the VP of Managed Services and client-facing teams to ensure services are operationally excellent, commercially viable, and positioned to scale with enterprise-grade clients. This is a high-impact leadership role requiring equal strength in people leadership, operational discipline, client engagement, and strategic thinking.
Responsibilities
Operations & Service Standards
- Set and maintain operational strategy, standards, and performance benchmarks across all managed service lines
- Monitor service metrics and ensure SLA compliance across all client accounts, enterprise and SMB
- Identify operational trends and drive initiatives for automation, efficiency, and service quality improvement
- Own data center operations and delivery platforms, ensuring reliability, capacity planning, and security compliance
- Serve as the senior escalation owner for complex or high-impact technical and operational issues
Client Delivery & Relationships
- Serve as the senior delivery owner for enterprise and SMB client relationships, satisfaction, and retention
- Manage delivery P&L for assigned accounts, proactively identifying risks, cost overruns, and growth opportunities
- Lead and participate in regular business reviews with clients to assess service health, alignment, and roadmap
- Partner with the implementation team to oversee onboarding of new clients and ensure smooth transition into steady-state operations
- Establish and maintain clear escalation paths, serving as the final escalation point for client-impacting issues
Sales & Pre-Sales Alignment
- Serve as the primary delivery liaison to the sales team for scoping new enterprise and SMB deals
- Support RFP responses by providing delivery capability, SLA commitments, and operational context
- Validate that new business commitments are operationally viable before contracts are finalized
- Represent delivery capabilities credibly in client-facing pre-sales conversations and executive meetings
Technical Strategy & Oversight
- Define and maintain technical strategy and operational standards for all service-aligned technical teams
- Partner with the Sr. Manager of Technical Services to translate technical capabilities into service-ready features
- Oversee engineering best practices, standards, and documentation discipline across all service lines
- Provide senior technical leadership on complex challenges and architecture decisions that affect service delivery
Service Development & Continuous Improvement
- Partner with Product/Service to evaluate and prioritize new service features and capabilities
- Integrate learnings from client feedback, incident data, and market trends into ongoing service improvements
- Champion a culture of data-driven decision-making, engineering excellence, and continuous improvement
People Leadership & Team Development
- Lead, develop, and retain Senior Manager of Technical Services and their extended teams.
- Set clear performance expectations, provide regular coaching, and conduct structured performance reviews
- Partner with P&C and VP to recruit top technical and operational talent as the organization scales
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, client focus, and continuous improvement across all teams
- Support career development and succession planning across the managed services leadership team
Skills and Abilities
- Demonstrated ability to lead multi-functional teams spanning both technical SME and operations disciplines
- Strong SLA management, escalation handling, and operational metrics expertise
- Excellent written and verbal communication, comfortable engaging with client C-Suite and internal executive stakeholders
- Commercially astute, able to manage delivery P&L and understand the financial drivers of managed services
- Strong strategic thinking combined with hands-on operational discipline
- Ability to build cross-functional alignment across delivery, technical, and sales teams
Qualifications
Required
- 7+ years of experience in managed services, IT operations, or technology service delivery
- 3+ years in a senior leadership role managing managers and multi-functional teams
- Proven track record of managing enterprise client relationships and delivery P&L
- Strong operational background, SLA management, service metrics, escalation handling
- Experience spanning both NOC/operations and technical service delivery disciplines
Preferred
- Experience in an MSP environment, particularly at scale with enterprise clients
- Familiarity with Managed Backup, Identity (Entra ID / Active Directory), Endpoint, and/or Network/Firewall services
- Experience with NOC operations, shift management, and tiered escalation models
- Exposure to pre-sales, RFP processes, and commercial deal structuring
- ITIL, PMP, or equivalent service/project management certification
Why work with us?
We offer a dynamic, innovative work environment with rewarding work - help save our clients from disaster!
We truly value our employees and provide an extraordinary package to prove it, including:
· Internal and external learning & development opportunities, including career advancement.
· Competitive compensation & benefits.
· Scheduled & flexible PTO programs.
· Fully remote work options.
· Family friendly programs
· Care packages
· Regular team building events.
Join the world's first Civilian Cybersecurity Force and take your career to the next level!