Graduate
Delivery Manager

Reports to Andrew Philips, COO
Hiring Now Graduate Programme UK Remote / Cardiff Full-Time
Certified Partner
⬡ Powered by Datadog
Salary
£25–30k
Location
UK Remote
Level
Graduate
About the Role
Critical Support is our flagship managed service. This role owns the delivery of it — keeping customers informed, SLAs on track, and the operational engine running smoothly. It's the connective tissue between our SRE team and the customers they serve.

We are the world's first "Powered by Datadog" certified partner — a Datadog-native cloud managed service provider built for European tech-led SMBs. Our founders previously built and exited DevOpsGroup to Amdocs. We operate lean, move fast, and take observability seriously.

This is a graduate-entry delivery management role working directly under Andrew Philips, COO. You'll own the customer-facing side of service delivery — onboarding, reporting, service reviews, escalation management, and the processes that hold everything together. You won't be writing Terraform, but you'll need to understand what our engineers are doing well enough to represent it to customers and flag when something's off.

What You're Delivering
Datadog-Native Monitoring
24/7 observability across customer infrastructure. Alerts, dashboards, and SLOs configured and maintained by our SRE team.
Cloud Operations
Managed AWS and Azure environments. Incident response, change management, and infrastructure operations on behalf of the customer.
Incident Management
Structured SEV-based incident response with postmortem discipline, customer communications, and SLA accountability under our IMS framework.
What You'll Do
Service Lifecycle Ownership

Highlighted stages are where you have primary ownership.

01
Customer Onboarding
02
Service Governance
03
Incident Response
04
Customer Comms & Escalation
05
Reporting & Reviews
06
Renewal & Growth
Metrics You'll Own
SLA Adherence
Response & Resolution
Per customer, per SEV tier
Customer Health
CSAT & NPS
Post-incident, quarterly
Onboarding
Time to Live
Days from contract to monitored
Retention
Net Revenue Retention
Renewals & expansions
Requirements
Must Have
  • A degree in any discipline — Business, Management, Engineering, or Computer Science all fit well
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication — you'll be in front of customer CTOs and technical teams
  • Natural organisational instinct: you track things, follow up without being chased, and hate loose ends
  • Comfortable working with data: producing reports, spotting trends, and presenting findings clearly
  • Tech-literate enough to understand what our SREs are doing — curiosity matters more than deep knowledge
  • Right to work in the UK without sponsorship
Nice to Have
  • Placement year or internship in a technical or IT services environment
  • Awareness of ITIL, service management, or structured delivery frameworks
  • Experience with project or service management tooling (Jira, Linear, Notion, or similar)
  • Familiarity with cloud concepts — AWS, Azure, or basic infrastructure principles
  • Exposure to ISO 27001 or similar compliance/governance frameworks
  • Any customer-facing work experience — even outside tech
Who Thrives Here

The best delivery managers we've worked with share one trait: they make complexity invisible to customers. When something goes wrong, the customer hears from you before they notice. When something's at risk, you've already escalated internally. You're not a gatekeeper — you're the person who makes sure both sides of the relationship get what they need.

You'll be working directly with Andrew Philips, COO — someone who has built and scaled a managed service before. You'll get real exposure to how a cloud MSP operates commercially and operationally, not a training programme or a shadow role. Expect to be given genuine ownership fast.

This isn't a purely administrative role. You'll be expected to develop a real working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, Datadog, and SRE practice over time — not to become an engineer, but to be a credible partner to the customers and technical teams you're working with every day.

Career Path
Start
Graduate
Delivery Manager
Year 1–2
Delivery Manager
Critical Support
Year 2–3
Senior DM or
Head of Delivery
Year 3+
VP Delivery or
Customer Success
Compensation & Benefits
£25–30k
Base salary DOE
EMI options
Employee share scheme
Remote-first
UK-based, async-friendly
ITIL funded
Training & certification support

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