Role and Responsibilities:
- Led and manage a small team of incident managers and Triage associates.
- Ensure that all incoming P1 and P2 incidents are responded, resolved within SLA defined.
- Drive service improvement and efficiency in the teams handled with an eye for automation and quality.
- Assess the impact and severity of incidents, making real-time decisions to escalate as necessary based on predefined procedures.
- Lead and manage "Bridge Calls", guiding the team to implement appropriate actions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams towards incident resolution, permanent fix via problem management and service improvement.
- Maintain clear and constant communication throughout the incident lifecycle, providing updates and status reports to stakeholders, leadership, and users.
- Timely communication on Major Incidents communication to the IT leadership and business users as agreed with the client.
- Facilitate post-incident reviews to identify root causes and contributing factors of incidents, ensuring that corrective and preventive actions are implemented.
- Document incident details, response actions, and resolutions for reference and reporting purposes.
- Generate comprehensive incident reports, highlighting key findings, outcomes, and recommendations for improvement.
- Ensure alignment with ITIL or other industry-standard frameworks to optimize incident management procedures.
- Identify training needs, skill and capability estimation, people management, performance appraisals, shift roster, ensure effective shift handover and
- timely reporting to higher management and other stakeholders
Key Skills:
- 8+ to 10 years total IT experience in the Incident Management role, with 5+ years in leading the team.
- Strong understanding of IT infrastructure, systems, and applications.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills in interacting with associates across the regions, this is non-negotiable.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to make sound decisions under pressure.
- Familiarity with ITIL or other IT service management frameworks such as Incident Management, Problem Management and Change Management and experience in ServiceNow, Jira,
- Experience with Service Now dashboards, JIRA, Operations Support, ITSI monitoring tools.
- Leadership qualities and the ability to lead and coordinate teams during incident response.
- Certifications such as ITIL, Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), or Certified Incident Manager (CIM) are a plus.
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, or related field;
Education & Certifications: B Tech, BE, MCA, MSC