Senior Cloud Monitoring Administrator (Incident Management)

Senior Cloud Monitoring Administrator

What Youll Do:

• Own and lead

  high-impact incident management (P1/P2)

  processes end-to-end.
• Facilitate incident bridges and war rooms with cross-functional teams (Cloud Compute, Network, Security, Cloud Ops).
• Coordinate with global stakeholders, vendors, and leadership for real-time updates and escalations.
• Maintain real-time communication on Team/ServiceNow and through structured email updates.
• Conduct in-depth

  Post-Incident Reviews (PIR)

  and ensure follow-ups via Problem Management.
• Track incident metrics (MTTR, SLA breaches, recurrence), analyze trends, and recommend improvements.
• Partner with engineering and automation teams to enhance observability and proactive detection.
• Standardize and enhance ITOCs incident response processes based on ITIL best practices.
• Drive improvements in

  incident communication protocols

  , documentation, and playbooks.
• Mentor junior engineers (L1/L2) in handling escalations and developing response skills.
• Partner with Observability Team,Cloud Compute, Network, Security and Cloud Ops to enable integrated monitoring and alerting.
• Collaborate with application and business teams to minimize business disruption and align resolution priorities.
• Participate in Change Advisory Board (CAB) to mitigate incident risks from changes.

What Youll Bring:

• 4+ years of experience in IT Operations/Incident Management roles, with at least 23 years handling global environments.
• Prior experience in a Consultant/L3 capacity in a matrixed or client-facing IT environment.
• Strong expertise in handling

  hybrid infrastructure (AWS + On-prem)

  incidents.
• Proven success in independently leading major incidents and stakeholder management.
• Tools: ServiceNow, JIRA, SolarWinds, Splunk, AWS CloudWatch, PagerDuty/Uptrends, Teams.
• Cloud: Working knowledge of Networking technologies, VMWare, AWS (EC2, RDS, Route 53, ELB, VPC, etc.)
• Concepts: ITIL (Incident, Problem, Change), Monitoring & Alerting, Automation basics (preferred)
• Certifications: ITIL v4 Foundation (required); AWS Cloud Practitioner or higher (preferred)
• Clear and timely communication during critical scenarios.
• Strong decision-making and accountability under pressure.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Structured thinking with an eye for continuous service improvement.
• Willingness to work in 24x7 support environment (via on-call rotation).