Senior Incident Manager

Senior Incident Manager (NOC)

Location: Salt Lake City, UT

The Senior Incident Manager coordinates incident responses across all functional and virtual groups. The position is a 24/7/365 role with primary hours between 7am-5pm MST. You will lead the end-to-end process for incident resolution and ensure that the right groups are involved in the mitigation /resolution of incidents. This position will communicate incident information and impact to customers, business partners and senior management. Upon resolution of the incident, you will ensure that the correct follow up actions are identified and assigned by working with the appropriate teams. This position also participates in projects to improve the current incident management process.
​Major Functions/Responsibility

• Assesses impact and progress during major and minor incidents to ensure escalation is timely and appropriate.
• Enter incident details and keep information updated in the incident management tool in a timely manner with accurate information.
• Provides accurate and timely communications on impact to the appropriate distribution lists and senior management.
• Drives governance around incident management, for example, ensures an incident ticket is opened, escalated, updates and closed according to proper procedure and protocol.
• Establishes regular communication with IT management the business and the customer regarding the status of incident tickets and adherence to the incident management process.
• Contributes to evolving and maturing the incident management process so it integrates with other processes, problem management, change management, and tools.
• May need to facilitate regular meetings with customers, the business and IT incident management stakeholders to prioritize and resolve important incident related issues.
• Leverage incident management best practices and process frameworks, such as, ITIL methodology, to drive continual process improvement.
• May participate in the incident management technology evaluations and decisions as well as the day-to-day use of incident management tools.
• Participate in special projects as assigned.

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Required Education, Experience, and Specific Job-Related Skills

Education Requirement:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Information Systems or related field or equivalent work experience required.​

Experience Requirement:

• 5 + years of experience in incident management position directly leading incident resolution activities. Problem, and change processes and tools experiences is a desired plus.  
• 2+ years of demonstrated leadership experience building consensus
• Experience in incident, problem, and change processes and tools
• Working knowledge of IT operations and support organizations
• ITIL V3 Foundation level certification or desire to obtain with 180 days
• Knowledge of problem and incident management tools and best practices
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Proven ability to build and manage relationships effectively
• Strong organizational skills; ability to manage multiple projects with competing demands for resources.
• A focus on business satisfaction, with strong interpersonal skills and responsiveness
• Ability to communicate with all levels of technical and management staff
• Strong Writing Skills
• Customer Service
• IT-Infrastructure Background
• Prior knowledge of cloud services

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