Incident Manager (Global SaaS Operations)
ABB
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Digital Platform Operations SpecialistPosition Overview
We are seeking an experienced Incident Manager to lead end-to-end response for high-severity incidents across our global SaaS platforms. This role acts as the single point of coordination during outages, ensuring timely triage, clear stakeholder communication, rapid service restoration, and strong post-incident governance aligned to ITIL. The ideal candidate combines calm, decisive leadership with solid technical acumen in cloud-native environments.
Work Model:- #LI-Hybrid
This role belongs to ABB Process Automaton Digital Division based out at ABB Innovation Center, Brigade Southfield- Bangalore- India.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as Incident Commander for Sev‑1/Sev‑2 events; run bridges/war rooms, drive parallel workstreams, and ensure clear decision logs and ownership.
- Assess business impact, prioritize recovery actions, and coordinate across Dev/SRE, Platform, Security, and Vendor teams.
- Issue timely internal/external communications (initial, updates, RCA/PIR) and maintain executive‑ready status dashboards during incidents.
- Define and maintain Incident, Change, and Problem workflows, SOPs, and runbooks; ensure ITIL alignment and continuous improvement.
- Partner with Change Management to review risk, quality gates, and change freezes; reduce repeat incidents and change‑related failures.
- Oversee access management during incidents (break‑glass, least privilege) and conduct post‑event access reviews.
- Own weekly/monthly reporting (KPIs/SLAs/SLOs, trend analysis, recurring faults) and drive corrective actions with owners and deadlines.
- Manage stakeholders and customers with calm, credible updates, action plans, and clear expectations.
- Capture lessons learned, update knowledge articles/runbooks, and coach teams on best practices.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, or related field.
- 6+ years in Incident Management within 24×7 global operations.
- ITIL Foundation certification (required); ITIL Intermediate/Managing Professional is a plus.
- Proven experience leading major incidents with multi‑team coordination and executive communication.
- Excellent written and verbal communication; able to articulate complex issues to technical and non‑technical audiences.
- Strong analysis, prioritization, and decision‑making under pressure.
Must‑Have Technical Knowledge
- Microsoft Azure (Monitor, Log Analytics/App Insights, core compute/networking).
- Kubernetes / AKS operations fundamentals.
- Windows & Linux operational basics.
- ServiceNow (Incident/Change/Problem) for ITSM processes.
- PagerDuty for on‑call management and escalation policies.
- Salesforce for customer case and communication workflows.
Key Skills & Competencies
- Customer‑centric, process‑driven, and results‑oriented.
- Strong stakeholder management; ability to influence without authority.
- Structured, detail‑oriented, and excellent facilitation/bridge leadership.
- Comfortable working across time zones in a fast‑moving environment.
KPIs Owned
- MTTA/MTTR; incident volume and severity distribution.
- SLA/SLO adherence; repeat incident rate; problem backlog burn‑down.
- Change failure rate linked to incidents; time‑to‑RCA/PIR closure.
- Timeliness and quality of communications; runbook coverage and freshness.
Desirable
- Deeper Azure/Kubernetes/SRE experience (scaling, resiliency, observability).
- Advanced ITIL certifications (Change, Problem, Service Operations).
- Familiarity with monitoring/observability stacks (Prometheus/Grafana, Azure Monitor).
Additional Information
- Weekend and on-call support may be required on a rotational basis.
- Coordination with customers and teams across multiple regions/time zones.
More about us:-
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The group will accelerate digital capabilities through a Horizontal, reusable and still Industry Rich Analytics Platform to excel in IoT and system integration, coupled with Predictive modeling and Transformative Analytics Apps and Solutions Machine Learning enabled Analytics Platform
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