She works closely with the finance department in forecasting her budget. She ensures that she is within budget at all times.

Reporting and balancing the team's budget is another responsibility of a technical manager. The technical manager also posts job openings, conducts interviews and hires and fires employees.Ī technical manager meets with his senior management regularly and gives them his monthly and annual reports, which include his team's performance, budgets and project status. He then conducts performance reviews of team members and gives them feedback, as well as makes promotion recommendations or salary increases if and when applicable. He provides each team member an objective or goal that he will monitor progress or status on throughout the year. He conducts regular meetings with his teams, whether as a whole or through one-on-one discussions. He may also meet with his counterparts, technical partners and customers. He makes sure that they are current on their licensing and certifications.Ī technical manager meets with his senior management regularly and gives them his monthly and annual reports, which include his team's performance, budgets and project status. He ensures that there is enough coverage, whether during normal hours or 24/7 on call rotation.Ī technical manager sends his team to technical trainings and boot camps. Scheduling work and break hours is another of his responsibilities. He also assigns each team member specific tasks and oversees their performance. ManagementĪ technical manager ensures that his team performs within set technical guidelines by providing or co-authoring standard operating procedures. The technical manager also implements hardware standardization, clustering and capacity planning for high availability of equipment and applications. She oversees that the data center equipment such as servers and network equipment are current on firmware, patches and codes and implements safety and security of the systems the team supports by applying firewall, host intrusion detection sensor (HIDS) and anti-virus software.

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