ITSM Incident & Problem Manager

at Convera

Pune- WFH

• Maintain high service availability and reliability across customer-facing and critical internal services.
• Lead major incidents with clarity, structure, and urgency
• Ensure consistent execution of ITSM processes, particularly Incident and Problem Management
• Provide real-time operational visibility and executive-ready communications
• Drive continuous improvement in operational KPIs and service stability

• Serve as the Incident Manager / Major Incident Manager for high-severity and business-impacting incidents by organizing incident bridges and war rooms, driving Rapid triage / Clear ownership / Timely decision-making.
• Ensure incidents are properly classified, prioritized, and escalated based on impact and urgency.

• Enforce ITIL-aligned Incident and Problem Management practices 

• Ensure accurate and complete documentation within ServiceNow, including Impact and affected services / Incident timelines / Root cause summaries and follow-ups 
• Play the role of Problem Manager to Identify recurring issues and systemic risks / Ensure RCAs are completed with actionable outcomes 
• Act as a process authority during incidents, ensuring teams adhere to defined ITSM standards 

• Own operational oversight of service availability and reliability - Monitor and manage key service health indicators, including Service availability and uptime / Incident volumes and severity trends / MTTR and MTTD / SLA and OLA adherence 

• Use observability data to proactively identify service degradation and emerging risks 
• Escalate systemic availability or reliability concerns to leadership with data-backed insights 

• Actively leverage observability platforms (e.g., Grafana, Datadog)  
• Partner with engineering and SRE teams to improve Monitoring coverage / Alert quality and signal-to-noise ratio 
• Ensure alerting and escalation via PagerDuty aligns with service criticality.

• Serve as the primary communication lead during incidents - Deliver concise, executive-level updates that articulate Business impact / Current status / Mitigation steps / Next milestones 
• Translate complex technical details into clear business language 
• Maintain confidence and composure while engaging senior leaders during high-pressure events

• Facilitate or support post-incident reviews - Identify trends, gaps, and opportunities for Process improvement / Tooling enhancement / Better operational readiness 
• Contribute to the evolution of Command Center playbooks, runbooks, and response standards 

• 3–6 years of experience in: 
• Incident Management 
• Major Incident / Command Center operations 
• Production operations or site reliability support 
• Proven experience managing high-severity incidents in 24×7 environments 
• Demonstrated ownership of service reliability and operational KPIs 

• Strong working knowledge of ITIL / ITSM frameworks 

• Deep hands-on experience with: 
• Incident Management 
• Major Incident workflows 
• Problem Management  
• Experience enforcing ITSM discipline across distributed technology teams 

• Exceptional communication and facilitation skills 
• Strong analytical mindset with comfort using metrics and dashboards 
• Ability to operate decisively in high-pressure situations 
• Influences outcomes without formal authority 
• Comfortable interfacing with executive leadership 

• Experience in regulated or customer-critical environments (FinTech, Payments, SaaS) 
• Exposure to ITSM tools like ServiceNow, PagerDuty etc. 
• Exposure to monitoring tools like Datadog, Grafana, Dynatrace etc.