Incident Manager
Required skills: Prior development background will be a plus.
ITIL certification (preferably)
Strong oral and written communication skills to communicate and discuss with client teams and CXOs.
Responsibilities:
- Owning and overseeing the incident management process and team members involved in resolving the incident
- Responding to a production incident, identifying the cause, and initiating the incident management process.
- Prioritizing incidents according to their urgency and influence on the business.
- Liaise with Tech and Product units to ensure there are learning from previous incidents [Critical - preventive measures]
- Producing documents that outline incident protocols such as how to handle infrastructure related incidents and how to correct application failures including an optimum server set up (e.g., DR set up)
- Conduct regular review and be the POC for AM/Clients while ensuring the incident management team meets the objectives and follows the process diligently.
- Maintaining a record of all incidents, updating all the relevant fields and their resolution to see if there are recurring malfunctions.
- Communicating with all stakeholders on major issues and resolutions.
- Ensure that team reflects the sense of urgency on production issues
- RCAs are conducted where applicable and the action items are taken to closure with the highest sense of urgency.
- Managing the Production support team and creating Team Roaster to make sure all the shifts are equipped with the right people
- Make sure the Support Team OKR are met and designing the OKRs for the individuals.
- Creating processes to make sure the knowledge base is up to date
- Fire Cheif for all Action Items of the permanent fixes for the incidents and make sure they are getting closed on time
- Be a fire warden available 247 and personally lead P1/P2 production issues on ground, to get them resolved promptly
The position is based in Hyderabad and requires working from the office.