Engineer-Incident Manager

  • $100,000–$150,000 Per Year

Highlights

Convene and drive cross-functional incident bridges and war rooms, coordinating engineering, infrastructure, product, and operations teams to achieve rapid service restoration and minimize MTTR. Craft and deliver clear, timely, and actionable communications to senior leadership, technical teams, and business stakeholders during active outages.

Numbers & Facts

LocationCary, NC
Salary$100,000–$150,000 Per Year

Description

Role: Senior Engineer

Required Skills: Incident Management

Experience: 2 - 4 Years

Function: TECHNOLOGY

Apply By: 2026-12-21

We are looking for a Major Incident Manager to drive rapid restoration of business-critical, customer-facing applications during high-severity production disruptions. In this role, you will lead end-to-end incident command for P0/P1 outages across digital wallet, payments, commerce, and financial services platforms, partner

with engineering teams on Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and champion ITIL-aligned continuous service improvement.

Key Responsibilities

  1. Major Incident Command & Restoration
  • Own and facilitate end-to-end Major Incident Management (MIM) processes for critical P0 and P1 production disruptions.
  • Convene and drive cross-functional incident bridges and war rooms, coordinating engineering, infrastructure, product, and operations teams to achieve rapid service restoration and minimize MTTR.
  • Act as the technical and operational escalation point, managing situational command until service stability is verified.
  1. Crisis Communication & Stakeholder Engagement
  • Craft and deliver clear, timely, and actionable communications to senior leadership, technical teams, and business stakeholders during active outages.
  • Manage operational escalation paths, providing transparent impact assessments, restoration ETAs, and technical status updates.
  1. Problem Management, RCA & PIR
  • Lead structured Post-Incident Reviews (PIRs) and drive cross-team investigations to establish definitive Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
  • Collaborate with engineering leads to define, track, and verify corrective and preventive action items (CAPA) to eliminate repeat failures.
  • Maintain accurate incident records, runbooks, and operational knowledge repositories.
  1. Service Operations & Continuous Improvement
  • Review operational metrics to identify trends, repeat incidents, and systemic weaknesses across platforms.
  • Optimize incident management workflows, escalation thresholds, playbooks, and operational tooling across distributed support teams.
  • Provide operational support and oversight for integrated platforms including Order Management Systems (OMS), MuleSoft integration layers, and APM tools like Dynatrace.

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

  • Project Management certifications (PMP, CAPM, Prince2).

Salary Range: $100,000-$150,000 a year

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