Incident Management Lead

Employment: Full-time Experience: Mid-Senior level Education: Bachelor's Degree What's the Short Version? The Team Lead, Incident Manager is responsible for leading the end-to-end Incident Management process to ensure the timely restoration of IT services while minimizing business impact. This role coordinates cross-functional technical teams during major and high-priority incidents, driving effective triage, escalation, communication, and resolution efforts. The role serves as the primary liaison between technical teams, business stakeholders, and leadership, ensuring clear communication throughout the incident lifecycle. What Will You Be Doing? Lead the end-to-end management of major and high-priority IT incidents. Coordinate technical teams to restore services as quickly as possible. Facilitate incident triage, prioritization, escalation, and resolution. Provide timely and accurate communications to business stakeholders and leadership. Ensure compliance with Incident Management processes and SLAs. Conduct post-incident reviews and coordinate root cause analysis (RCA). Identify trends, recurring issues, and opportunities for process improvement. Produce incident reports, dashboards, and operational metrics for leadership. Collaborate with Problem, Change, Infrastructure, Security, and Service Desk teams to improve service stability. Perform other duties as assigned. Comply with all policies and standards. Requirements What Are We Looking For? Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field (or equivalent work experience). 1-3 years of experience in incident management, IT operations or cybersecurity, with a focus on leading or coordinating incident response efforts. Fluent in written and spoken English, including ability to communicate technical details to non-technical people. Working knowledge of incident and major incident management processes Ability to communicate incident status, business impact, and resolution updates to stakeholders Demonstrated ability to coordinate activities across multiple technical teams during service disruptions Sound judgment and the ability to prioritize actions in a fast-paced operational environment Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and risk assessment skills Knowledge of continuous service improvement practices, including incident reviews and trend analysis Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, and Visio Ability to create and maintain process documentation, procedures, workflows, and operational playbooks Working knowledge of project planning and tracking tools, including Microsoft Project and Gantt charts Ability to prepare reports, presentations, and dashboards for stakeholders