Incident Manager Job at Sysco (Houston)

Job Description

As an Incident Manager, you will be a part of the Sysco Information Technology Service Management team based in Houston, Texas, and responsible for the Sysco Incident Management process. You will be working with your global incident management team to assess the severity of reported incidents, identify relevant service owners, initiate, and lead incident management calls with relevant parties, communicate the progress of the incidents via relevant communication channels, ensure proper closure of those incidents and continuous auditing and improvements to Incident Management process. Using data learned from those incidents you will drive further improvements into our automation, monitoring, and processes to proactively identify and resolve critical incidents.

Job Responsibility

Lead, own and drive incident management bridge calls and chats with support teams, application development teams, infrastructure teams’ business teams, and senior leadership with the purpose of remediating major incidents
Establishing strong command and control of an incident, establishing clear accountability/ownership and methodical evaluation of complex issue scenarios
Applying technical/environmental knowledge and experience to develop and drive appropriate tasks, forming paths to resolution
Effectively verbalize, document, communicate and facilitate the identification, handling, status reporting, solution options and alternatives, change implementation of various incidents and problems reactively and proactively identified in the IT environment, and effectively bring them to resolution and/or closure
Understand the Service Levels, determine the criticality of incidents, ensure incidents are addressed within agreed SLAs by the service owners, and taking follow-up actions until incidents are resolved
Ensure the correct resources are working on the resolution of major incidents appropriate to the severity and identify when escalation is required and trigger such escalation accordingly
Work closely with Service Owners to deliver a clear, concise picture of incidents and the short-term remediation applied
ensure problem prevention methods and mitigation strategies are continually applied to improve application availability and make recommendations on long-term solutions
Effectively document analysis, business cases, solution strategies, incident and problem tracking, processes, procedures, and knowledge articles associated with implementing fixes and solutions to existing or predicted IT incidents and problems
Facilitate analysis and review meetings and provide recommendations to service owners and platform owners to improve practices, service availability and IT services
Build and maintain an intermediate level of understanding of the industry, business, internal processes and products, and apply this knowledge to incidents as they are reported to determine best course of action
Work with Support Knowledge Managers to build the team knowledge database
Work as part of a global team, providing 24 x coverage on a rotating basis on weekdays and weekends
Maintains an analytical perspective during a crisis and supports crisis resolution
Holds self and others accountable for measurable high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results
Takes ownership of and is accountable for one or more complex products, features, components, or solutions and associated performance metrics
Ensures team level decisions align with priorities and strategic agenda for project/product
Leverages budget and other financial information to support staffing and business planning efforts
Identifies risks and their potential outcomes and proposes possible solutions to meet business objectives
Fosters an inclusive workplace where diversity and individual differences are valued
Participate in process analysis to determine areas of improvement using Lean and Agile methodologies
Presents results and/or demos with appropriate complexity for different audiences

Requirements

5+ years of experience in IT Support handling emails, incidents and phone calls supporting technology products
3+ years of experience in playing the role of an Incident Manager and/or leading a support team
Superior English language and communication skills - both written and verbal
Skills with the ability to articulate technical solutions for both technical and non-technical audiences
Highly motivated, self-directed and responsible contributor
Ability to direct cross-functional resources through incident life cycle
Technical knowledge and experience working with Windows/Linux environments, Cloud environments, SQL, Active Directory, Scripting, etc.
Network troubleshooting knowledge including LAN/WAN, DHCP, TCP/IP, Firewalls, and Routing Cloud Services/Platforms
Monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, New Relic, DataDog, Nagios and Splunk
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology or equivalent

Nice to have

ITIL Foundations certification recommended
Higher ITIL certifications will be an added advantage

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