IT Engineer I (Incident Management)

About Kueski

Founded in 2012 with the mission to improve the financial lives of people in Mexico Kueski is the leading buy now pay later (BNPL) and online consumer credit platform in Latin America known for its innovative financial services. Its flagship product Kueski Pay allows customers to make purchases and pay later both online and in physical stores and has become the payment choice for a quarter of Mexico's leading e-commerce merchants. Notably it stands out as the first buy now pay later (BNPL) option accessible to Mexican consumers on Amazon.com.mx .

Kueski is frequently recognized for its strong diverse and inclusive company culture. In 2022 Kueski was named one of the most ethical companies in Mexico by AMITAI and one of the best companies for both young professionals and female talent in Mexico by EFY. The company has also been named to CB Insights’ Fintech 250 list.

Purpose

As a Incident Management will contribute as part of continuous improvement generating suggestions changes and initiatives focused on improving our current process aligned with best IT practices.

Our Incident Management team is at the forefront of how Kueski handles urgent problems. When you're not putting out one of our biggest fires you'll procure preventative solutions to address future escalations and help assess the risk of the Kueski platform.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-end responsibility for managing communicating escalating investigating and resolving critical issues on Kueski ensuring Business updates are timely of sufficient quality and updated as required

• Responsible for writing validating and triggering official Incident Communication using our Incident Report (IR) format

• Working on incident resolution aligned with defined SLAs to get resolved any issue as soon as possible

• Lead technical calls (War Rooms) with a high sense of urgency to resolve issues and escalate high-impact incidents to the IT Incident  Manager lead

• Executing local escalation matrix focusing on identifying and resolving conflicts and bottlenecks

• Ability to evaluate clarify and confirm Business Impact for any major incident by participating in the  Triage sessions with solving teams.

• Categorize and classify major incidents

• Document incident recovery details in any major Incident ticket as in our Post-Mortem document used by Problem Management

• Supporting Network Operation Center (NOC) team in Monitoring

• Supporting Change and Problem management functions

Position Requirements

• To have experience in an Incident management role preferably in Fintech and financial companies

• Strong understanding of ITIL Incident Management principles and other Service Management functions as Change & Problem Management

• Excellent English communication skills - able to write and establish an oral conversation

• Good communication skills verbal and written. Ability to communicate technical updates to non-technical stakeholders

• Able to provide after-hours/on-call incident management support

• Ability to create update and manage reports and KPIs that allow us to measure the Incident Management process effectiveness

• A good candidate must have a high sense of urgency to attend critical incidents (P1 & P2)

• Strong leadership abilities; must have a customer focus and commitment to quality

• Experience working within a pressured environment often to tight deadlines

• Experience and knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS Azure Google)

• Strong analytical problem-solving and documentation skills

• Be proactive instead of reactive

You’ll love working at Kueski because:

• We have a mission-driven culture focused on customer value teamwork humility  and integrity.

• Everyone is expected to have role clarity career growth and a personal development plan. Feedback and recognition  is embedded in our company processes systems and practices.

• We ensure competitive salary medical insurance and wellbeing through ample and flexible time off as well as mental healthcare benefits. Everyone is an owner and eligible for competitive stock options with a company poised for success.

• We´re committed to building an inclusive and diverse team and we know this leads to incredible work.

Kueski: Where talent excellence improves Mexican lives

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