EOC Incident Manager - Watch Officer

Dunhill Professional Search & Government Solutions; Ashburn (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Dunhill Professional Search & Government Solutions is seeking an Incident Manager to oversee incident resolution across production, development, and test environments within a government-focused enterprise. You will orchestrate bridge calls, coordinate incident response, and drive restoration of services with a customer-centric mindset.

Ideal candidates bring 3+ years in incident management and fault monitoring tools, ITIL familiarity, and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience and a BS degree; BS can be substituted with 4 additional years of related experience.
• 3 years of strong experience with fault and performance monitoring tools such as IBM Netcool Omnibus, AppDynamics, HP Operations Manager.
• 3 years of experience with incident management tools such as BMC Remedy.
• 3 years engineering experience in large-scale MoM monitoring environments.
• 3 years exposure to ITIL framework and concepts (incident, problem, change, RCA).
• 2+ years proven troubleshooting skills with distributed applications.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with technical and senior leadership.
• US Citizenship; no dual citizens.

Responsibilities

• Performs all functional duties independently.
• Manages incidents in production, development, and test environments across data centers.
• Provides central coordination for incidents and restores service quickly.
• Coordinates events with emphasis on availability and resolution.
• Defines metrics to judge incident management efficiency (MTTR, MTBF).
• Creates and maintains SOPs, guides, and customer contact database; quarterly reviews.
• Populates knowledge base; documents lessons learned from escalations.
• Escalates incidents per established procedures.
• Reports daily on call volume and SLAs for CIO Morning Meeting.
• Reports monthly on outstanding tickets requiring third-party action.
• Identifies opportunities for process and documentation improvements.
• Supports monthly Enterprise Operations Center reporting for SLAs and KPIs.

Skills

Incident management

Communication

Problem solving

US Citizenship

Education

Bachelor of Science

Tools

IBM Netcool Omnibus

AppDynamics

HP Operations Manager

BMC Remedy

Job description

The Incident Manager will have experience managing incidents in a Network Operations Center or equivalent 24x7x365 operations center supporting the resolution of Major Incidents for an enterprise or Government agency. This position supports evenings and weekend as needed.

1. Performs all functional duties independently.
2. Possesses and applies expertise on multiple complex work assignments. Assignments may be broad in nature, requiring originality and innovation in determining how to accomplish tasks. Operates with appreciable latitude in developing methodology and presenting solutions to problems. Contributes to deliverables and performance metrics where applicable.
3. Monitor and support Incident management in production, development, and test environments in all data centers used by the client.
4. Provide a central point for coordination of incidents that arise in all environments. Establish and orchestrate bridge calls with emphasis on restoring service to users as quickly as possible, facilitate and troubleshoot toward resolution of incidents, and manage incidents to completion.
5. Coordinate, elevate, and/or resolve operational system/application/network events that have the potential of negatively impacting system and application availability to the user community.
6. Define and document metrics to judge efficiency and effectiveness of Incident Management Process. Examples: Mean Time to Repair, Mean Time Between Failures, Repeat Incidents
7. Create, update and maintain Standard Operating Procedures, Technical User Guides, Troubleshooting Guides, and Customer Contact Database. Conduct quarterly reviews of all documents.
8. Populate Knowledge Management Database with known troubleshooting procedures. Develop "lessons learned" on all escalated incidents.
9. Escalate incidents in accordance with established escalation procedures.
10. Report on previous business day's Enterprise Operations Center call volume and SLAs to be incorporated into the CIO Morning Meeting report slides. Content may change as the Government reporting requirements change over time. Due daily by 7:30am.
11. Report monthly on outstanding tickets dependent on third party action. Report to include ticket, item awaiting action, third party, duration and if known estimated resolution time.
12. Proactively identifies opportunities for process and/or documentation improvement.
13. Supports the development of monthly Enterprise Operations Center reporting for SLAs and KPIs.

Minimum Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience and a B.S. degree. Bachelor of Science (BS) can be substituted with an additional 4 years of related experience.
• 3 years of strong experience with Fault and Performance monitoring and reporting tools such as: IBM Netcool Omnibus, AppDynamics, HP Operations Manager
• 3 years of experience with working with incident management tools such as BMC Remedy
• 3 years engineering experience within a large-scale, complex Manager of Manager (MoM) type monitoring environment
• 3 years exposure to Service Management/ITIL framework and concepts (incident, problem, change management, RCA)
• 2+ years of proven demonstrated troubleshooting skills; highly skilled in the implementation, integration, testing and support of distributed applications
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills: experience working with technical and functional resources; experience presenting information to client / senior leadership
• Excellent problem solving skills: proven ability to resolve issues and explain complex problems
• US Citizenship, no dual citizens

Candidates must be US citizens and will be required to undergo a background investigation in order to be granted access to sensitive information.