He honestly sounded very experienced in this. If management doesn't care you shouldn't more than them to a point where you become a bigger problem. Take your

He honestly sounded very experienced in this. If management doesn't care you shouldn't more than them to a point where you become a bigger problem. Take your 6 months grace time and listen to both sides. Try to boost your team's image to management by removing things that lead to negatives feeling (outages are caused by something, fix that something and put new process in place). Involve the team in the plan, create road map and go. The worst thing you can do is try to throw in 10 new best practices in 2 months.