This is an excellent opportunity to prove your Major Incident Management skills in a truly challenging and complex environment. In order to be successful in securing this role, candidates will need to demonstrate previous experience of managing Major Incidents using in-house and vendor-based support teams.
In this role, you will be responsible for coordinating the recovery of all Major Incidents to resolution and assisting the IT Major Incident / Problem Manager in the analysis and long-term resolution of issues. The successful candidate must have the ability to have challenging conversations with clients, customers, and key stakeholders, chair meetings, and drive action plans whilst being proactive and reactive towards problem management.
Responsibilities
* Manage rapid response to major incidents and problems, ensuring that appropriate action is taken to investigate and resolve them, with minimal downtime to systems and services.
* Motivate, influence, and support the response team to deliver rapid responses to major incidents as they occur.
* Ensure effective investigation of all incidents in line with service level agreements, providing a high level of customer contact/communication for critical incidents.
* Conduct post-incident review meetings.
* Own the investigation of resolved critical incidents to determine root cause.
* Provision of Major Incident reports to customers and the business.
* Utilise problem management processes and procedures to analyse system failures and provide resolutions to reduce future incidents.
* Record problem records, ensuring workarounds for recurring problems are added to the knowledge base and communicated to the Help Desk.
* Maintain known error records.
* Manage business communications for IT change activity outside of core hours.
* Where necessary, support the functional testing of IT change activity outside of core hours.
* Proactively monitor IT systems and services.
* Support the wider team with IT Operations activities as required.
A bit about you
* Ability to influence key stakeholders in achieving minimum disruption to the Stores & Web site IT infrastructure.
* Excellent communication and organisation skills.
* Proven track record in Incident and Problem Management.
* Ability to effectively challenge when appropriate.
* Self-motivated achiever who gains satisfaction from providing excellent customer service.
* Substantial proven experience of successfully managing major incidents.
* Ability to work well under pressure and lead a team to resolve major incidents.
* Ability to think logically, analyse situations and problem-solve.
* Proficient knowledge of IT Infrastructure (hardware, databases, operating systems, local area networks, etc.).
* Broad knowledge and understanding of IT concepts and architectures.
* Aptitude for analysing and managing problems arising from incidents.
* Substantial experience in a complex airport environment is highly desirable.
* Relevant ITIL qualifications, ITIL foundation as a minimum.
* Experience of using ServiceNow/Jira is highly desirable.
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