production Support Incident Manager, ITSM, ITIL, ServiceNow

Key Responsibilities:
* Own end-to-end incident management: Lead detection, triage, impact assessment, prioritization, and resolution of production incidents within agreed SLAs and OLAs.
* Coordinate major incident handling: Act as the primary point of contact during high-severity incidents, driving technical bridges/war rooms and ensuring timely stakeholder communication.
* ITIL/ITSM process execution: Apply ITIL-aligned practices for incident, problem, and change management, ensuring adherence to organizational standards and governance.
* Root cause analysis: Perform thorough post-incident reviews, document root causes, and define corrective and preventive actions to avoid recurrence.
* Service stability and continuous improvement: Identify recurring issues and operational gaps, propose process and tooling improvements, and contribute to reliability and performance enhancements.
* Collaboration with engineering and operations: Work closely with development, infrastructure, and QA teams to understand system behavior, dependencies, and release impacts on production.
* Monitoring and alert optimization: Review alerts, refine thresholds, and help optimize monitoring dashboards to reduce noise and improve early detection of issues.
* Knowledge management: Create and maintain runbooks, standard operating procedures, and knowledge base articles to improve first-time-right resolutions and reduce MTTR.
* Risk and change assessment: Participate in change advisory processes, assess production risks, and ensure appropriate validations and rollback plans are in place.
* Mentoring and guidance: Support junior team members in incident handling best practices, communication, and adherence to ITSM processes.
Minimum Qualifications:
* Education: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, preferably B.Tech or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
* Experience: 8-15 years of hands-on experience in production support and incident management in enterprise or large-scale environments.
Good to have skills:
ServiceNow, BMC Remedy, Problem Management, Change Management, Monitoring and Alerting Tools

* Project Management fundamentals
* Project Lifecycles on development & maintenance projects, estimation methodologies, quality processes.
* Knowledge of one or more programming languages; knowledge of architecture frameworks, and design principles; ability to comprehend & manage technology, performance engineering.
* Domain - Basic domain knowledge in order to understand the business requirements / functionality.
* Ability to perform project planning and scheduling, manage tasks and coordinate project resources to meet objectives and timelines
* Ability to work with business and technology subject matter experts to assess requirements, define scope, create estimates, and produce project charters
* Good understanding of SDLC and agile methodologies is a pre-requisite
* Awareness of latest technologies and trends
* Logical thinking and problem solving skills along with an ability to collaborate