Incident Manager

ASM Research; Manassas (GA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

ASM Research is seeking an Incident Manager to own the end-to-end incident management process for the Service Desk, ensuring disruptions are identified, prioritized, escalated, and resolved within SLA. You will drive cross-functional coordination during major incidents and lead post-incident reviews to prevent recurrence.

The role requires ITIL expertise, ServiceNow/Jira Service Management experience, and a Secret Clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, CS, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 2+ years in ITSM, Service Desk, or Incident Management.
• ITIL Foundation certification required; Intermediate/Practitioner preferred.
• Experience with ITSM platforms (ServiceNow, Remedy, Jira Service Management).
• Strong incident triage, prioritization, and escalation judgment under pressure.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with executive stakeholders.
• Experience establishing, reporting KPIs, SLAs, and XLAs with dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute the Incident Management process per ITIL best practices.
• Coordinate during major incidents, drive bridge calls and resource coordination.
• Classify, prioritize, and assign incidents based on severity and impact.
• Monitor queues and KPI thresholds; develop remediation plans for breaches.
• Communicate status and timelines to stakeholders and leadership.
• Lead post-incident reviews (RCA) and corrective action plans.
• Maintain and improve incident management processes and documentation.

Skills

ITIL knowledge

Incident triage

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Service Desk

Analytics & reporting

KPIs & SLAs

Clear escalation

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS

Associate degree +2 years experience

Tools

ServiceNow

BMC Remedy

Jira Service Management

SolarWinds

Datadog

Splunk

Job description

Position Summary

The Incident Manager owns the end-to-end incident management process for the Service Desk, ensuring service disruptions are identified, prioritized, escalated, and resolved within SLA. This role drives cross-functional coordination during major incidents, minimizes business impact, and leads post-incident reviews to prevent recurrence.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and execute the Incident Management process in alignment with ITIL best practices.
• Serve as the primary point of coordination during major/critical incidents, driving bridge calls and coordinating technical resources across teams until resolution, including Tier IV/OEM vendor escalation and 24/7/365 emergency response for declared Critical (PL1) incidents
• Classify, prioritize, and assign incoming incidents based on severity, business impact, and urgency using defined priority levels (P1-4).
• Monitor incident queues and escalation breaches or at-risk tickets per SLA thresholds; flag any KPIs consistently above threshold and produce a remediation plan.
• Communicate incident status, impact, and resolution timelines to stakeholders and leadership.
• Lead post-incident reviews (root cause analysis / RCA) and drive corrective After-Action Reviews and Problem Resolution Action Plans for high-impact or recurring issues
• Maintain and continuously improve incident management processes, workflows, and documentation.
• Partner with Problem, Change, and Service Level Management to reduce repeat incidents.
• Produce and present incident metrics/KPIs (MTTR, SLA compliance, incident volume/trends) to leadership.
• Ensure accurate incident logging, categorization, and closure in the ITSM tool (e.g., ServiceNow, Remedy, Jira Service Management).
• Mentor and provide direction to Service Desk analysts on incident handling and escalation procedures.
• Maintain and test the major incident response plan/runbook.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience). Associate degree +2 years additional relevant experience, or 4 years additional relevant experience can be substituted.
• 2+ years of experience in IT Service Management, Service Desk, or Incident Management role.
• Solid understanding of ITIL framework (ITIL Foundation certification required; Intermediate/Practitioner preferred).
• Experience with ITSM platforms (e.g., ServiceNow, BMC Remedy, Jira Service Management).
• Strong incident triage, prioritization, and escalation judgment under pressure.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including experience communicating with executive stakeholders.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams during high-pressure, time-sensitive situations.
• Strong analytical skills with experience in root cause analysis and reporting.
• Must have experience establishing, managing, and reporting Performance Measures (KPIs, SLAs, and XLAs) in support of government defined Performance Requirements. These Performance measures include SLAs that measure operational performance such as system availability, response times, and resolution times, based on the priority level of the service request, and XLAs that measure the quality of the end-user experience, including Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) and Customer Effort Score (CES). Ideal candidates have experience inestablishing baselines for SLAs and XLAs producing automated reports, and dashboard capabilities/technologies with near real-time visibility into all KPIs, SLAs, and XLAs.
• Familiarity with ISO/IEC 20000-1 service management alignment.
• Secret Clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting federal government clients/contracts.
• Familiarity with monitoring/alerting tools (e.g., SolarWinds, Datadog, Splunk).
• Experience with Problem and Change Management processes.

Qualifications

Compensation Ranges

Compensation ranges for ASM Research positions vary depending on multiple factors; including but not limited to, location, skill set, level of education, certifications, client requirements, contract-specific affordability, government clearance and investigation level, and years of experience. The compensation displayed for this role is a general guideline based on these factors and is unique to each role. Monetary compensation is one component of ASM's overall compensation and benefits package for employees.

EEO Requirements

It is the policy of ASM that an individual's race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation or national origin are not and will not be considered in any personnel or management decisions. We affirm our commitment to these fundamental policies.

All recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting for all job classifications is done without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, or age. All decisions on employment are made to abide by the principle of equal employment.

Physical Requirements

The physical requirements described in "Knowledge, Skills and Abilities" above are representative of those which must be met by an employee to successfully perform the primary functions of this job. (For example, "light office duties' or "lifting up to 50 pounds" or "some travel" required.) Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with qualifying disabilities, who are otherwise qualified, to perform the primary functions.

Disclaimer

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Compensation Range

$75,000 - $120,000