Incident & Escalation Manager

Incident & Escalation Manager

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in incident management, SRE, or operations roles within SaaS or cloud-native environments.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, high-severity incident response efforts across global teams.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to stay composed under pressure.
• Experience with observability and incident tooling (e.g., PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Datadog, Splunk, Jira).
• Deep understanding of service reliability principles, escalation strategies, and root cause analysis methodologies.
• Comfortable working across time zones and in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary incident commander for high-severity incidents across our production environment.
• Coordinate real-time troubleshooting efforts across globally distributed engineering and operations teams.
• Provide timely, accurate updates to stakeholders, customers (as needed), and executive leadership.
• Determine appropriate escalation paths and timing to drive fast resolution.
• Collaborate across Engineering, SRE, Product, and Support functions to ensure rapid alignment and resource mobilization.
• Facilitate post-incident reviews for high severity events, ensuring root cause analysis and comprehensive documentation.
• Promote a blameless culture and drive learning-focused retrospectives.
• Ensure follow-up action items are clearly defined, assigned, and completed on schedule.
• Maintain visibility into resolution progress and escalate blockers as needed.
• Enhance incident response practices through process development, tooling improvements, and knowledge sharing.
• Partner with global SRE and Engineering teams to improve observability, monitoring, alerting, and runbook quality.
• Participate in a rotating on-call schedule as a designated incident commander for major incidents.
• Be available during your on-call shift to lead incident calls, coordinate cross-functional teams, and drive resolution.
• Ensure smooth handoffs between on-call rotations and maintain accurate status documentation.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.