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The Manager, Incident Management will be part of the ITSM Platform Operations team supporting ongoing operations of the streaming service.  The Manager will oversee a team of Incident Managers who are responsible for the 24x7x365 monitoring of the end-to-end services that power NBC’s Direct-to-Consumer platforms.  The role will manage the coordination and communication for all service-impacting outages to ensure minimal impact to customers and issues are resolved as quickly as possible.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to

• Manage a team of Incident Managers who provide 24x7x365 monitoring of the end-to-end systems used in the delivery of NBC’s Direct-to-Consumer platform
• Drive the incident management process, ensuring that all systems are documented in the CMDB with properly described resiliency and escalation processes.
• Quickly assess the severity of an outage related to the business impact.
• Create run books for Platform Operations Analysts to follow during production incidents.
• Act as an escalation for any major production incident, leading the incident response in real-time and coordinating with the Site Reliability and Delivery teams to ensure proper resolution.
• Produce Root Cause Analyses to be shared with senior executive management for all major and high incidents and work with the Problem Management team to ensure that long-term remediation's are tracked.
• Coordinate the investigations and drive the incidents to resolution/remediation.

Salary Range:  $120,000-150,000

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a relevant field
• Minimum 2 years management experience
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a Service Management role overseeing the needs of a large digital system
• Experience using ServiceNow or similar ITIL tool to manage change and incidents.
• Expertise in creating run books and other process documentation.
• Understanding of DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, and CI/CD pipelines
• Available to support live events on nights and weekends as required.
• ITIL Service Support knowledge

Desired Characteristics

• Experience with streaming in a direct-to-consumer video business highly preferred.
• Passionate about leading a team of Incident Managers committed to ensuring 99.999% availability.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, comfortable communicating with technical and non-technical colleagues and executives.
• High attention to detail and accuracy.
• Exceptional organization skills and excel at multitasking with the ability to pivot during major outages.
• Strong customer service orientation.
• Ability to understand large complex software systems and their interdependencies.
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to develop strong relationships with service owners.
• Knowledge of video streaming platforms and cloud computing providers a plus
• Availability to travel as required

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