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Major Incident Manager

Salesforce

Salesforce

Sydney, NSW, Australia
Posted on Monday, November 20, 2023

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Job Category

Operations

Job Details

About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

Major Incident Manager is an individual contributor role, highly customer-focused, operational leader that is responsible for detailed execution Salesforce’s existing, best-in-class, critical incident response operation, with a high sense of urgency. You will have strong technical knowledge of sophisticated SaaS systems and deep experience leading the rapid response to complex incidents. The Major Incident Manager is a key driver for high-severity incident management, security incident management. This responsibility includes collaborating and partnering with the entire organization to drive action and foster growth. As a member of the Global Support management team, this role is customer-focused, technically competent, and business-oriented.
Salesforce, leading provider of cloud computing, uses a global network of internal and outsourced technical support engineers to deliver best in class, multi-language technical support to over 1 million subscribers. With our continued rapid growth, we are searching for a strong incident leader to join our Global Critical Incident Center.
Key Responsibilities:
  • Ensure detailed execution of the incident resolution process, including running and leading incident bridges and drive transparent communication that promotes very high levels of internal/external customer satisfaction,
  • Work directly with stakeholders and executives to drive resolution during incidents and improve overall response for future incidents,
  • Leading multi-functional post-incident process reviews to ensure continuous improvement of operations and execution,
  • Leading enterprise-wide drills to ensure excellent response posture,
  • Closely partnering and collaborating with Infrastructure, Engineering, Operations, Technical Support, Customer Success and Sales Leadership to ensure alignment across the business.
  • Ability to perform a flexible schedule, including weekend and overnight shifts.
Minimum Requirements:
  • Demonstrated ability in a global application delivery/SaaS environment, handling highly complex issues,
  • Technical working knowledge of network infrastructure (Load balancer, firewalls, CDNs etc)
  • Solid experience handling, coordinating, and ensuring resolution on major incidents,
  • Outstanding communication skills at the C-Level: Both written and verbal Communications,
  • Deep experience responding to and leading complex incident response in a 24/7/365 environment,
  • Strong operational and services experience in a cloud services delivery environment
  • Providing mission-critical support to large enterprise customers.
  • Previous experience directing and maximizing the benefits of collaborating with global teams.
Specific Skills:
  • Customer-centric attitude and focus on providing best-in-class service for customers and collaborators.
  • Familiarity with incident management frameworks (IMS, ITIL, NIMS, NIST, SANS, etc.)
  • Executes with an operational urgency with an ability to maintain calm, and work closely with a team and partners during a critical situation.
  • Lead and drive resolution via an audio bridge as an incident commander with excellent executive communications and multi-functional collaboration.
  • Ability to handle conflict during impactful and stressful incident events.
  • Must have expertise in running enterprise-level escalations, including leading, prioritizing, and delegating multiple critical issues at once.
  • Has experience collaborating and communicating on an executive-level.
  • Flexibility, integrity and creative problem-solving skills are prerequisites to success in this role.
  • Must be technically literate and be able to articulate technical issues in a meaningful way to both engineers and executive-level management. Deep technical knowledge of multi-tenant, Cloud systems and/or highly complex infrastructure is highly desirable.
  • A great teammate who is influential and builds good working relationships across all functions, with demonstrable experience developing and maintaining productive relationships across organizations to ensure that business initiatives are completed and business objectives are achieved.
  • Excellent project management skills, including demonstrated ability to lead projects across teams where influencing skills are required.

At Salesforce we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people of all ages, people living with a disability, LGBTIQ+ candidates, and people from multi-cultural backgrounds. Salesforce Australia is committed to walking together with the Traditional Custodians of this land, Australia’s First Nations peoples, as we forge a path to reconciliation. Please see our Reconciliation
Action Plan for more information.

Join us in crafting the future of customer experiences with Salesforce!
Our team values are Trust, Winning as a Team, Equality, Growth, Curiosity and Transparency. We work in a close-knit team environment with a great culture, good sense of humour and a strong dedication to helping one another grow and succeed. This is a great opportunity for someone wanting to get deep exposure to the backbone of Salesforce organisation, drive significant impact that is highly valued by executive leadership, and continuously learn and solve new challenges!

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Posting Statement

At Salesforce we believe that the business of business is to improve the state of our world. Each of us has a responsibility to drive Equality in our communities and workplaces. We are committed to creating a workforce that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives such as equal pay, employee resource groups, inclusive benefits, and more. Learn more about Equality at www.equality.com and explore our company benefits at www.salesforcebenefits.com.

Salesforce is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Salesforce does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Salesforce will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Salesforce.

Salesforce welcomes all.