IT Incident, Problem and Change Manager

Probe Group; Quezon City; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Probe Group in the Philippines is seeking an IT Operations Manager to drive operational stability and ensure IT changes align with business risk and KPIs. You will oversee scheduled changes, outages, and business-continuity planning across the enterprise.

The ideal candidate will have 3–5+ years in IT operations/ITSM, expertise in ITIL, and experience in leading CAB/ECAB and Major Incident responses, with strong business-focused communication for executive stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, CS or business or equivalent.
• 3–5+ years in IT operations/ITSM with proven risk mitigation during high-risk activities.
• Strong understanding of ITIL processes and governance.

Responsibilities

• Map IT infrastructure to core business processes and KPIs.
• Schedule deployments around operational cadence to minimize downtime.
• Lead CAB/ECAB meetings to assess change viability.
• Assess risks and plan rollback strategies for changes.
• Lead major incident management and crisis bridge leadership.
• Communicate outage impacts to executives in business terms.
• Lead post-incident reviews to drive preventive actions.

Skills

Business Operations

Risk Management

Executive Communication

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Crisis Bridge Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT, CS or Business

Tools

ITIL Frameworks

ITSM Platforms

AWS/Azure

Job description

At Probe Group, we're powered by passion, driven by curiosity, enriched by a purpose to do it better. We work hard and love a good challenge (or multiple). With clients spanning across the Pacific, Asia and North America, we’re no stranger to thinking big and working with innovative minds to achieve great success. We are dedicated to doing things better than the day before, and our exponential growth is living proof that we have stayed true to this ethos. At Probe, expect to think differently, challenge the norm and find your purpose.

Responsible for:

The IPC Manager drives operational stability, high service availability, and business continuity across the enterprise. Actively bridging technical operations with real-world business activities, this role ensures scheduled IT changes and unexpected outages are managed through the lens of business risk, operational schedules, and company KPIs.

The ideal candidate leads swift restoration during Major Incidents while governing the IT Change Management lifecycle—safeguarding revenue-generating systems, critical business workflows, and customer service delivery from IT-driven disruption.

Main Activities and Responsibilities:

Business Protection & Operational Alignment

• Business Impact Mapping: Map technical infrastructure and software dependencies directly to core business processes, key operational schedules (e.g., month-end financial closes, peak trading hours, critical dispatch windows), and business KPIs.

• Business-Centric Scheduling: Align deployment maintenance windows around the business’s operational cadence to actively avoid high-risk operational periods and minimize revenue or productivity loss.

• KPI Impact Mitigation: Evaluate both emergency incidents and planned changes against non-IT performance metrics (e.g., SLA compliance, customer experience scores, order processing throughput) to prioritize IT actions based on true business severity.

IT Change Management

• CAB Facilitation: Chair the Change Advisory Board (CAB) and Emergency CAB (ECAB), ensuring representatives from affected business units are present to evaluate change viability.
• Business Risk & Conflict Assessment: Scrutinize change requests for potential system collisions, poor rollback strategies, or hidden operational risks prior to authorizing implementation.
• Change Governance & Compliance: Maintain robust governance, ensure standard operating procedures are followed, and track the overall Change Success Rate.

Major Incident Management

• Crisis Bridge Leadership: Lead resolver teams, key stakeholders and third-party vendors during P1/Major Incidents to drive swift resolution.
• On-Call Escalation Management: Participate in an on-call rotation to handle Major Incident Management (MIM) escalations, ensuring immediate response, structured leadership, and swift resolution during critical outages.

• Business-Focused Communication: Translate complex technical issues into clear, business-impact language for executive leadership and operational stakeholders during active outages.

• Post-Incident Reviews (PIR): Lead post-mortem analyses following outages, measuring the total business downtime and operational cost to drive preventive actions with Problem Management.

Core Competencies:

Systems Processes & Policy

Ensure all policies & procedures are adhered to, including compliance obligations

Ensure key function policies are in place & are current

Drive & implement operational excellence in function/line of business

Ensure compliance within function/line of business & industry associations, managers, peers & direct reports

Establish & manage effective relationships with key stakeholders, internal & external,

including with functional & industry associations, vendors, Board & Executive team

Key Skills and Capabilities:

Business Operations & Risk Acumen

• Deep understanding of how enterprise IT services power front-line operations, financial reporting, supply chain, or customer-facing channels.
• Ability to negotiate change timing based on business priorities, critical operational peaks, and seasonal workload shifts.
• Competency in assessing how IT downtime or degraded performance directly impacts wider corporate metrics (e.g., CSAT, daily transaction volumes, SLA penalties).

Technical & ITSM Expertise

• IT Service Management (ITSM): Expert knowledge of ITIL frameworks (Change, Incident, Problem, and Service Level Management) and ITSM platforms.
• Technical Breadth: Functional awareness of cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure), hybrid networks, databases, and enterprise software architecture to realistically gauge technical scope.

Soft Skills & Leadership

• Crisis & Bridge Management: Calm, decisive leadership capability during high-pressure system outages.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Strong diplomatic, negotiation, and influence skills to balance technical team deployment goals with operational business protections.
• Executive Communication: High proficiency in translating technical jargon into clear, actionable updates for executive leadership.

Qualifications and Typical Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Business Administration, or equivalent practical experience
• 3–5+ years in IT operations/ITSM with demonstrated success in safeguarding business operations during high-risk IT activities.

Certifications (Preferred):

• ITIL v3 / ITIL 4 Foundation or Managing Professional Certification
• Certified Business Process Associate (CBPA) or equivalent project management credentials (e.g., PMP, Agile)