Incident Manager

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Incident Manager

• Oversee the triage, investigation and resolution of production issues, ensuring timely communication and status updates
• Manage incident response efforts, including documentation and root cause analysis and post-incident reviews to identify preventative actions
• Establish clear escalation protocols and ensure adherence to serve level agreements (SLAs)
• Coordinate resolution and follow ups with dependencies outside immediate team
• Coordinate KTs between development teams and L1/L2 triage to establish runbooks and knowledge base

Team Leadership and Coordination:

• Coordinate with development, QA, and infrastructure teams to ensure seamless issue resolution and knowledge sharing
• Foster a strong ownership mindset within the team, ensuring accountability for system health and stability

Monitoring and Alerting

• Define and maintain effective monitoring solutions in partnership with development teams to proactively identify and address potential issues
• Continuously improve observability by implementing dashboards, alerts and automated health checks in partnership with development teams

Process and Documentation

• Develop and maintain detailed runbooks, SOPs and knowledge base articles to ensure consistent response procedures
• Establish best practices for incident response, including communication templates and decision frameworks

Qualifications and Skills:

• Proven experience in a production support leadership role for client facing applications
• Strong understanding of incident management frameworks
• Proficiency in troubleshooting application, database, and infrastructure issues
• Familiarity with monitoring tools such Dynatrace, Datadog , Splunk etc
• Familiarity with incident management platforms such as ServiceNow
• Ability to prioritize tasks effectively, and communicate technical concepts to non technical stakeholders
• Excellent problem solving skills and a calm, solution-focused approach under pressure
• Experience working in AWS
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and release management processes