Incident Response Lead

Your Role

Incident & Problem Management

• Lead end-to-end incident response, triage, communication, and resolution in real time.
• Act as Incident Commander for high-impact events across a global environment.
• Track and improve metrics like MTTD, MTTM, and MTTR.
• Champion blameless Post-Incident Reviews (PIRs) and translate learnings into long-term system and process improvements.

Service Operations & Reliability

• Oversee daily service health, capacity, and reliability across all supported environments.
• Ensure compliance with operational KPIs through proactive planning and improvement.
• Balance demand vs. capacity and manage shift coverage to prevent burnout.
• Partner with engineering teams to maintain runbooks, knowledge bases, and escalation paths.
• Drive automation and workflow optimization to reduce manual overhead.
• Use data insights to guide decisions and improvements.

Strategic & Cross-Functional Impact

• Represent in customer reviews, operational syncs, and briefings.
• Collaborate with SREs, product owners, and partner engineers to align priorities and reliability goals.
• Contribute to frameworks and governance initiatives.
• Lead service onboarding/off-boarding and strengthen operational readiness checkpoints.
• Identify and close systemic operational gaps through process and tool improvements.

Your Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 3+ years in Service Delivery, Incident Response, or Operations Leadership within enterprise-scale, 24×7 environments.
• Proven experience managing technical teams, driving performance, and leading through critical situations.
• Strong grounding in ITSM / ITIL principles (Incident & Problem Management).
• Familiarity with cloud, distributed systems, or enterprise infrastructure.
• Skilled in monitoring, alerting, and ticketing tools (e.g., PagerDuty, Datadog, Grafana, Splunk, ServiceNow).

Core Competencies

• Incident Command and Escalation Management
• Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills
• Communication and Decision-Making Under Pressure
• Root Cause and Post-Incident Analysis
• Operational Planning and Service Governance
• Stakeholder and Partner Management
• IT Service Management (Incident & Problem Management)
• Observability, Monitoring, and Automation Tools

Plus points if you have:

• ITIL V3 or V4 certification or Incident Management Certifications
• Familiarity in SRE practices and operational frameworks that promote reliability and automation