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Manager – Engineering, Managed Services

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree required and 7 years of experience with 1 year of managerial experience
  • Previous consulting, managed services, cloud operations, infrastructure operations, or engineering leadership experience
  • Experience with ITIL-based process management, service delivery frameworks, operational governance, and continuous improvement
  • Ability to travel up to 25% as needed

Responsibilities

  • Lead a Managed Services Engineering team responsible for delivering cloud, automation, observability, security, and managed operations services
  • Own end-to-end service delivery and operational performance for assigned government customer environments
  • Drive continuous service improvement across processes, tooling, automation, service health, and operational resilience
  • Identify opportunities to automate operational processes and improve service reliability

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Team Leadership
  • Governance
  • Consulting
  • Communication
  • Teamwork
  • Problem Solving
  • Curiosity

About the company

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CDW UK

IT Services & IT Consulting

CDW delivers high-performance commercial services and solutions across both the private and public sector. With extensive experience in the public sector and a position on all relevant frameworks, we help customers minimise risk, working consultatively with them to maximise quality of service delivery and deliver real value against savings targets.Operating from 4 international hubs, CDW delivers the same high standards of service and solutions across the globe. We help our clients achieve their goals by delivering integrated solutions and services that maximise their technology investment. Integrating new technologies into your organisation demands a careful balancing act; cost, security and competitive advantage all need to be considered as part of a forward-thinking IT strategy. At CDW we are recipients of the industry’s highest achievable accreditations. Our IT solutions and services are designed to offer you strategic advantages over your competitors, helping you to attract and retain more customers, while increasing your market share. At CDW we are People Who Get IT.

Company details

IndustryIT Services & IT Consulting
Company size1001-5000

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Job description

Job Summary:


The Manager – Engineering, Managed Services leads a cloud-focused, platform-agnostic Managed Services Engineering team to achieve operational excellence, customer satisfaction, service quality, and financial performance. This role is accountable for service delivery outcomes, resource management, continuous service improvement, and team development while serving as a product owner for assigned cloud, hybrid infrastructure, automation, observability, and managed operations offerings.


What You Will Do:


  • Lead a Managed Services Engineering team responsible for delivering assigned cloud, automation, observability, security, infrastructure, and managed operations services in alignment with service strategy, customer requirements, contracts, and statements of work.
  • Own end-to-end service delivery and operational performance for assigned government customer environments, ensuring compliance with contractual commitments, SLAs, SLOs, operational standards, and applicable government requirements.
  • Execute service level agreements using established operational frameworks, standard operating procedures, runbooks, service management practices, and governance processes.
  • Drive continuous service improvement across processes, tooling, automation, service health, operational resilience, customer experience, security, and team performance.
  • Allocate engineering resources to support, maintain, modernize, secure, and optimize assigned cloud and hybrid technology services.
  • Establish effective on-call and escalation practices to ensure appropriate coverage, timely response, and operational continuity for critical government services.
  • Identify opportunities to automate operational processes, reduce manual effort, improve service reliability, and increase scalability across the managed services portfolio.

What We Expect of You:


  • Bachelor’s degree required and 7 years of experience with 1 year of managerial experience, OR 11 years of work experience required with 1 year of managerial experience.
  • Previous consulting, managed services, cloud operations, infrastructure operations, or engineering leadership experience, a plus.
  • Experience with ITIL-based process management, service delivery frameworks, operational governance, and continuous improvement, a plus.
  • Ability to lead teams, gain consensus, prioritize work, and drive measurable results, a plus.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, a plus.
  • Experience working with enterprise technology vendors, cloud providers, managed service platforms, or service management tools, a plus.
  • Ability to travel up to 25% as needed, a plus.

Pay range: $117,000 - $177,000 depending on experience and skill set

Annual bonus target of 20% subject to terms and conditions of plan

Benefits overview: https://cdw.benefit-info.com/

Salary ranges may be subject to geographic differentials

CDW is committed to being an AI-fluent organization

As a leader, you will champion and be accountable for our vision of becoming an AI-fluent organization. We expect leaders to model curiosity, encourage responsible AI adoption, and foster a culture of continuous learning. You don’t need deep technical expertise, but you should be comfortable exploring how AI can enhance strategy, decision-making, and team performance. Your role includes guiding others in building confidence and capability with AI tools and practices, while promoting openness to experimentation and shared learning.

Additionally, CDW is committed to fostering an equitable, transparent, and respectful hiring process for all applicants. During our application process, our goal is to understand your experience, strengths, skills, and qualifications. As an AI forward company, we see AI not just as a tool, but as a catalyst for new ways of thinking, creating, and communicating. We encourage candidates to embrace an AI mindset, one that’s curious, adaptive, and ready to explore what’s possible. We welcome thoughtful use of AI to expand your perspective and elevate how you share your story, while ensuring your application remains rooted in your own background, judgment, and voice.

About Us

CDW is a Fortune 500 technology solutions provider that helps businesses, government, education, and healthcare organizations achieve what’s possible through technology. What makes CDW different isn’t just what we do—it’s how we do it. At CDW we act as one—building trust, speaking candidly, and working together to achieve more. We play to win—focusing on what matters most and delivering for our customers. And we think forward—staying curious, moving fast, and continuously learning. We believe meaningful work happens when people feel supported, heard, and empowered to contribute. That’s why we think of ourselves as coworkers, not just employees—working together to solve complex challenges and deliver real impact for our customers and communities.

As a full‑stack, full‑lifecycle technology partner, CDW brings deep expertise, strong relationships, and broad industry knowledge to help turn ideas into outcomes. When you join CDW, you become part of a collaborative environment where your work matters, your growth is supported, and your contributions help shape what’s next.

Together, we deliver the full promise of what technology can do. Together, we Make Amazing Happen.

CDW is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by state and local law.       

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