Incident Director (R-16041)

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The Role:

Will oversee all aspects of the day-to-day Command Center & incident management process and guide a team of ECC Analysts. The leaders will coordinate technical trouble shooting calls and guide teams with focus on restoring service and reducing impact to the business and clients. Incident Management will play a major role in post incident reviews and will transition client impacting incidents to the Problem Management team.

The Team:

This position will work with the Incident Director to lead our Enterprise Command Center & Incident Management team. The leader will work in a highly collaborative manner with Service Management and other Engineering and Operational counterparts.

“Success” is viewed as a team accomplishment and not just as individuals. There is strong emphasis on collaboration, common vision, and ownership. All team members are expected to be active participants in the envisioning, design, and development process – this includes proactively suggesting improvements and alternatives along with keeping an open mind to the suggestions offered by other team members.

Key Responsibilities:

• Reporting to the Incident Director the Incident Manager will co-ordinate the investigation of major incidents and ensure resolution by driving analysis on Priority Issue Bridges to ensure service disruptions are resolved as quickly as possible.
• Seasoned people leader who drives constant improvements to guide & mentor a team of ECC analysts on incident management best practices as well as Operational monitoring.
• Assign tasks to team members to investigate and resolve.
• Manage communication during major incidents to both business and IT stakeholders.
• Verify service is restored and impact accurately assessed.
• Create procedures to deal with problems and prevent recurrence.
• Will manage staff in day-to-day roles of operations & incident management.
• Work with the Incident Director to monitor workload of staff.
• Performs quarterly and annual performance reviews.
• Implement Incident Director aligned process improvements for Operations (alert handling / recovery) & Incident Management (command & control).

Key Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of experience. Preferable 7+ years in production support for an enterprise-level platform with high-availability requirements along with a strong understanding of concept pertaining command center operations and incident management.
• Experience with ServiceNow Splunk and system monitoring tools.
• Working knowledge DevOps responsibilities: infrastructure-as-software tools (Terraform experience is a strong plus) along with CI/CD implementation best practices.
• Ability to thrive in a high energy, high growth, fast paced, entrepreneurial environment. Willing to learn new skills and implement new technologies.
• Strong organizational skills with high attention to detail and the able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Highly-collaborate team player who can build strong relationships at all levels of the technology and business organizations.

Benefits We Offer

· Generous paid time off in your first year, increasing with tenure.

· Up to 16 weeks 100% paid parental leave after one year of employment.

· Paid sick time to care for yourself or family members. 

· Education assistance and extensive training resources.

· Do Good Program: Paid volunteer days & donation matching.

· Competitive 401k & Employee Stock Purchase Plan with company matching. 

· Health & wellness benefits, including discounted Gympass membership rates.

· Medical, dental & vision insurance for you, spouse/partner & dependents.

· Learn more about our benefits: http://bit.ly/41Yyc3d.

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