Command Centre Major Incident Manager

Position Title: Incident Manager
Location: San Diego CA office 3 days a week hybrid
Duration: Long term position
Contract to hire in 6 months.

Job Description
Major Incident management team is a support team established to ensure resolution of major incidents impacting business units.
Goal: Accurately identify a major incident promptly engage technical resources effectively communicate to the customers affected and drive the appropriate resources & partners to restore service.

Responsibilities
Manage incident management bridge calls with support teams oncall support application teams and management. Manage escalate status and assist coordinating repair efforts for nonmajor and major incidents (P1 P4).
Regular communication updates to the Customer EndUsers and other Stakeholders during the entire Incident Management cycle
Track and document incident updates in real time
Since Major incidents are highly escalated cases handling with presence of mind and innovation.
Experience in handling multiple monitoring tools like Service now Pager duty etc.
Perform quality audits and data analytics on incident tickets to ensure quality and uncover new trends.
Meet the SLAs and other KPIs agreed and produce the Process Performance Reports
Provides documentation for Known Error Data Base (KEDB) or similar depository
Develop process and procedures that ensure Incident Management and Service Desk related action items are tracked and completed
Ensuring the Process adherence meeting the Quality norms
Provide Management reporting on Incident Metrics and Incident Management performance
Problem Management Activities: Responsible for reviewing Incident tickets to identify common issues indicative of a Problem working all levels of Problem tickets and as a process owner enforcing Problem Management processes across the full ITIL problem lifecycle from detection to major problem review & to identify Continual Service Improvement
Change Management Activities: Audit all change records including confirming the accuracy of the data ensuring the details of the change are understood and well documented hosting Change Advisory Board meetings when required and ensuring approvers and other stakeholders are included as needed.


Qualifications
Bachelors degree in computer science Information Technology or related field.
10 years of experience in incident management or related field.
Knowledge of incident management processes and procedures.
Excellent problemsolving and analytical skills.
Excellent verbal & written communication and interpersonal skills.
Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
Certifications: ITIL
Work Location:
Canada (Toronto / Ottawa): Hybrid Work Model 23 days in office

Working Day / Working Hours:
All times are in Pacific Standard Time
Team will support activities from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm in a roster with engineers working in 8hour shifts. Example 7:00 am 4:00 pm / 9:00 am to 6:00 pm / 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
Support days include Weekends with team members taking over weekend support roles alternately managed through a roster. Every member will have balanced weekday & weekend work for over a quarter.
In short In a week a team member is expected to work for 5 days in an 8hour shift/day.

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