Technical Account Manager (TAM)

A qualified Technical Account Manager TAM is assigned on a non-exclusive basis to provide remote technical support during standard business hours, Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM local time, excluding holidays, and to serve as the primary escalation point for the MOC.

Services include:

• Developing and maintaining a thorough understanding of the IT environment, business operations, and technology standards to help align Managed Services with business objectives and constraints
• Serving as the primary escalation point for complex or cross functional technical issues and supporting timely resolution through coordination with appropriate internal teams and specialists
• Leading regular service review meetings, monthly, quarterly, or as otherwise agreed, to discuss service performance, review recent tickets and incidents, address ongoing concerns, and maintain open communication
• Conducting Quarterly Business Reviews QBRs with senior stakeholders, including presentation of support trends, incident root causes, performance and availability statistics, security events, and identified risks, along with review of evolving business objectives and recommendations for adjustments or additional services as needed
• Assistance with strategic IT planning and continual service improvement, including maintenance of an IT roadmap aligned with business goals, identification of opportunities for technology upgrades or new solutions such as cloud migrations, infrastructure improvements, or security enhancements, and guidance on prioritization and projected impact of proposed projects
• Performance of ongoing account optimization tasks, including tuning monitoring and alert thresholds, reviewing firewall rules, security settings, and configurations, auditing patch compliance and remediating deficiencies, maintaining the integrity of monitoring and management tools, analyzing recurring incidents to identify root causes, and proactively identifying inefficiencies or opportunities to improve service delivery
• High level oversight to help ensure Services are delivered in accordance with the Agreement and service expectations, including monitoring key service metrics, advocating internally on behalf of the account, escalating significant issues to management as needed, and communicating new service offerings or changes that may benefit operations
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