Senior Engineer- Alerting & Incident Management

First Abu Dhabi Bank; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Abu Dhabi is seeking an Incident Management Specialist to oversee and improve incident response processes. The role demands expertise in alert management platforms and the ability to lead teams during critical incidents. Ideal candidates will possess strong communication skills and a calm demeanor in high-pressure situations. This is an opportunity to grow within one of the world's largest banks.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in managing incident response processes.
• Ability to document timelines and lead incident reviews.
• Calm and assertive approach in high-pressure situations.

Responsibilities

• Manage and improve the incident response process.
• Act as incident commander during major outages.
• Integrate observability tools with incident management platforms.

Skills

Strong experience with alert management platforms

Familiarity with routing rules and escalation policies

Understanding of incident management processes

Ability to coordinate during high-pressure incidents

Excellent communication skills

Job description

Overview

Join the UAE’s largest bank and one of the world’s largest and safest financial institutions. Our focus is to create value for our employees, customers, shareholders and communities to grow through differentiation, agility and innovation. We are looking for top talent and your success is our success. Accelerate your growth as you help us reach our goals and advance your career. Be ready to make your mark a top company, in an exciting and dynamic industry.

Overall objectives

• To establish and maintain an effective, intelligent, and timely alerting framework across infrastructure, application, and business services.
• To coordinate and continuously improve the incident management lifecycle with a focus on early detection, rapid response, and root cause accountability.
• To integrate observability data (logs, metrics, traces) into a unified alerting and incident response workflow.
• To reduce Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR) through automation, clear escalation paths, and operational discipline.

Role specific responsibilities

• Manage and continuously improve the incident response process, including triage, escalation, status communications, and resolution tracking.
• Act as the incident commander during major outages or high-severity issues, coordinating technical teams toward resolution.
• Maintain and govern on-call schedules, escalation paths, and responder playbooks.
• Integrate observability tools with incident management platforms to enable real-time, contextual alerting.
• Lead and document root cause analysis (RCA) and ensure completion of follow-up actions and preventive measures.
• Report on incident metrics and trends, identifying areas for resilience and process improvement.

General functional responsibilities

• Maintain detailed documentation on alert rules, incident workflows, contact rosters, and escalation trees.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, audit, and risk management requirements related to incident response and system availability.
• Collaborate with monitoring, logging, and APM peers to align telemetry signals with operational response.
• Work with development, infrastructure, and support teams to embed alert and incident management best practices in SDLC and change management.
• Participate in regular incident simulations and on-call readiness drills.
• Drive continuous improvement through retrospective reviews, blameless post-mortems, and incident automation.

Qualifications

• Core competencies required
• Strong experience with alert management platforms such as Opsgenie , Splunk On-Call, ServiceNow Event Management, or VictorOps.
• Familiarity with routing rules, escalation policies, noise suppression, on-call schedules, and alert deduplication.
• Deep understanding of the end-to-end incident management process—detection, triage, escalation, communication, and closure.
• Proficient in running major incident bridges, documenting timelines, and leading post-incident reviews (PIRs/RCAs).
• Calm and assertive in high-pressure incident scenarios.
• Excellent communicator—able to coordinate with technical and business stakeholders during incidents.