DMOC Team Lead

Relha LLC; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental insurance

401k matching

Tuition assistance program

Employee volunteer program

Wellness program

Job summary

Western Alliance Bank, a Western Alliance Bancorporation, seeks a Distributed and Middleware Operations Center Lead - Staff Engineer II to provide technical leadership across server, database, middleware, and identity services. You will drive incident response, service restoration, and operational readiness while partnering with engineering, security, and automation teams.

You will mentor staff, manage shift execution, and develop guidance on monitoring, recovery, and escalation.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of related experience IT App Support, IT Development, IT Networking, or similar field.
• Bachelor's degree in related field required.
• Previous leadership experience preferred.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of general Financial Services or Banking is preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices.
• Advanced proven experience leading operational support teams through incident response, break/fix troubleshooting, production escalations, service restoration, and recurring issue remediation.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day technical leadership for IT Operations Center staff across distributed shifts.
• Lead operational support planning for production environments, including break/fix response and service restoration.
• Coordinate with engineering, observability, security, automation, and service management teams to identify recurring issues and improve monitoring quality.
• Coach analysts and engineers on troubleshooting approach, ticket hygiene, escalation standards, and operational accountability.
• Prepare clear operational updates and leadership summaries, post-incident notes and improvement recommendations.
• Mentor ITOC L1 and L2 staff in their responsibilities.

Skills

Leadership

Incident response

Communication

Governance

ITIL

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

ITIL

Incident management tools

Change management systems

Job description

As a Distributed and Middleware Operations Center Lead - Staff Engineer II you'll provide expertise in a suite of technical tools and products across server, database, middleware, active directory and M365 operations to ensure production services are safe, secure, compliant, stable, and reliable. You'll identify operational support needs, break/fix gaps, service restoration improvements, and production readiness risks while leading day-to-day technical execution across incidents, requests, escalations, and recurring operational issues. You'll facilitate dialogue across IT Operations Center staff and engineering teams. As the DMOC Lead, you'll provide day-to-day technical leadership for shift execution, queue health, escalation quality, operational readiness, and incident response while developing effective presentations and narratives for technical teams and leadership.

Lead operational support planning for production environments, including break/fix response, service restoration, escalation readiness, and technical recovery execution.

Design and implement engineering principles aimed at reliability practices and sound recovery procedures.

Design transaction specific application performance monitoring metrics that can be captured and passed to business partners.

Develop and maintain technical documentation, including system configurations and procedures while also ensuring compliance with IT policies, procedures, and industry standards. Develop desktop procedures when needed that others follow.

Provide day-to-day technical leadership for IT Operations Center staff across distributed shifts.

Drive queue discipline, shift handoff quality, escalation quality, and follow-through for incidents, service requests, operational tasks, and aging work.

Serve as an escalation point for server, database, middleware, active directory and M365 incidents, service degradation, monitoring gaps, and high-impact operational issues.

Coordinate with Critical Response Coordinators during major incidents by providing technical triage, impact clarity, remediation status, and next-step ownership.

Partner with engineering, observability, security, automation, and service management teams to identify recurring issues, reduce alert noise, improve monitoring quality, and strengthen operational readiness.

Coach analysts and engineers on troubleshooting approach, documentation expectations, ticket hygiene, escalation standards, and operational accountability.

Support operational readiness activities including health checks, patching, vulnerability remediation, disaster recovery exercises, and operational validation for server, database, middleware, active directory and M365.

Prepare clear operational updates, leadership summaries, post-incident notes, and improvement recommendations that explain risk, progress, constraints, and decisions.

Mentor and support ITOC L1 and L2 Staff in their responsibilities.

Complete work in a timely and accurate manner while providing exceptional customer service.

What you'll need:

7+ years of related experience IT App Support, IT Development, IT Networking, or similar field.

Bachelor's degree in related field required.

Previous leadership experience preferred.

Intermediate to advanced knowledge of general Financial Services or Banking is preferred.

Advanced knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices.

Advanced proven experience leading operational support teams through incident response, break/fix troubleshooting, production escalations, service restoration, and recurring issue remediation. Additional experience coordinating operational work across ticket queues, monitoring alerts, change activity, vulnerability remediation, and platform support responsibilities.

Advanced ability to understand the operational impact of production issues and align break/fix priorities with service stability, customer impact, risk reduction, and business continuity. Capable of leading and motivating cross-functional operational teams during escalations, resolving support conflicts, driving technical follow-through, and identifying risks that affect service reliability, recovery readiness, and operational execution. Proficient in governance patterns tied to incident handling, escalation quality, operational validation, change readiness, and technical support standards.

Working knowledge of ITIL practices including incident, request, change, problem, and knowledge management.

Advanced speaking and writing communication skills.

Benefits you’ll love:

We offer all the important things you'd want — like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!

About the company:

Western Alliance Bank, Member FDIC, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Serving clients nationwide, Western Alliance Bank includes six legacy bank brands — Alliance Association Bank, Alliance Bank of Arizona, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank and Torrey Pines Bank — that remain part of the company’s heritage, as well as AmeriHome Mortgage, a Western Alliance Bank Company.

Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email [emailprotected] or call 602-386-2488. When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.