Datacenter Operations Incident Manager

Job Description

Who You’ll Work With

The Cloud and Managed Services (CMS) team provides second/third level technical support for Cloud/Hybrid solutions and cloud enabled end point products on a worldwide basis via inbound/outbound phone calls, email, web and remote access. Provide consultation to independently solve and debug solutions for Cisco customers, partners, account teams along with collaborating with other technical support engineers to resolve issues.

What You’ll Do

AS a CMS team member you will contribute in the following areas:

• Understand and meet customer agreements (SLO/SLA/commitments)
• Follow and participate in the improvement of established team processes
• Identify and adhere to cost reduction measures
• Understand ITIL framework (Event, Incident, Change & Problem Management)
• Collaborate with peers and multi-functional teams
• Maintaining knowledge required to perform role effectively
• Participate in regular synch ups
• Actively share / develop innovation and automations for continued improvement
• Specific to the role of Incident Manager, responsibilities may include:
• Provide management coverage and guidance on all P1, P2, and other high visibility incidents:
• Notify the management team through an e-page or appropriate mailer with the incident number and bridge information within xx minutes
• Provide internal and external executive level updates to all stakeholders
• Ensure incident team has an active voice and is driving the troubleshooting
• Assign tasks and track follow-up actions
• Engage additional resources as needed
• Collaborate with cross functional teams (Professional Services, Technical Services etc.) to ensure unified messaging to customer
• Assist with the development and delivery of RCA through collaboration with cross functional teams when necessary
• Proactively identify and collaborate on issues that need to be escalated to Problem Management
• Works on complex problems where analysis of situations requires in-depth evaluation of factors
• Participate in an on-call rotation with other Incident Managers
• Act as queue manager to ensure incidents have an owner as needed
• Assist Operation Managers with daily management tasks
• Review operational metrics and drive team performance
• Refine/Improve Incident processes to drive team towards SLO goals and to ensure repeatable customer experience
• Participate in incident ticket reviews to provide ongoing feedback to the Incident Team
• Mentor and coach Incident Team
• Support and backup other Incident Managers
• Maintain productive customer relationships
• Assist with new customer onboarding to establish process
• Participate in the development and delivery of regular service reviews
• Serve as an escalation point for both technical and political customer escalations

Who You Are

You are a self-starter who requires little oversight to achieve your goals and meet your objectives. You work well with others and are truly a great teammate. Customer satisfaction is in your DNA. You have excellent verbal and written communication skills. You are able to see the big picture even when analyzing multiple complex factors under pressure. You have a technical background and understand the fundamentals of troubleshooting.

Required Skillset:

• AA/BA in a technical discipline plus 5-10 years of experience in a Network Operations Centre or Technical Assistance Centre
• Foundational knowledge on routing and switching protocols
• Foundational knowledge on Cisco Data Center Compute platforms like UCS Blade & Rack Servers
• Foundational knowledge on Cisco Data Center platforms including Cisco nexus, catalyst switches, ASR routers
• Foundational knowledge of Cisco and Industry Cloud computing (i.e. Openstack, VMWare and AWS), Data Center, Virtualization, Storage and Networking solutions is desirable.
• Deep understanding of Incident & Change Management process
• Great teammate with good communication skills in both written and spoken format
• Good organizational skills.
• Ability to prioritize workload while handling customer commitments.
• Strong written/verbal communications skillset.
• Good social and collaboration skills.
• Able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Ability to motivate teams and have positive impact to overall morale.

Desired Skills

• Working knowledge of Cisco ACI & General Database Solutions.
• Strong experience in managing critical situations
• 2-5 years’ experience in a team leadership role while acting as a liaison with external/internal customers

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