Sr Incident Manager (REMOTE)
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Job description
- Lead the incident management lifecycle from detection to resolution
· Facilitate incident response calls, ensuring:
o The right teams are engaged
o Clear ownership and escalation
o Accurate, real-time communication
· Use AI prompts and tools during incident calls to:
o Capture timelines, actions, decisions, and impact
o Improve data quality and reporting
· Provide ongoing status updates to stakeholders and leadership during incidents
· Coordinate with IT teams, business partners, and vendors to resolve issues quickly
· Conduct post-incident reviews, documenting lessons learned and action items
· Analyze incident trends and drive improvements to prevent recurrence
· Create and present incident reports and metrics to senior leadership
· Mentor and support incident management team members
· Participate in scheduled overnight on-call support during assigned weeks
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in incident management, IT service management, or a closely related field
· Hands-on experience leading live incidents in a large, complex enterprise environment
· Strong understanding of IT infrastructure, applications, and service operations
· Proven ability to lead high-pressure incident calls and drive teams to resolution
· Experience with incident management tools (e.g., ServiceNow, Jira, or similar)
· Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills (technical and non-technical audiences)
· Strong problem-solving and root cause analysis skills
· Ability to analyze incident data and trends to reduce repeat incidents
· Willingness to participate in on-call rotation
o One week every six weeks
o 6:00 PM - 6:00 AM
· Ability to develop and implement AI prompts to capture and structure incident information during live incident calls
Bachelor's degree in IT, Business, or a related field (or equivalent experience) · ITIL certification
· Advanced certifications such as CISM, CISSP, or crisis management credentials
· Experience building or improving incident response frameworks or crisis playbooks
· Prior people-leadership or mentoring experience
· Experience creating dashboards, KPIs, or executive-level reporting
· Master's degree in a related field
Exposure to automation or AI-enabled incident management beyond basic tooling