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Technical Service Operations Lead TSO Lead

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You will lead responses to major incidents, coordinate cross-functional investigations, make escalation decisions, and help ensure resolution within SLA targets. You will manage stakeholder and customer communications, maintain status-page updates, facilitate blameless post-incident reviews, track corrective actions, analyze operational trends, and improve incident-management processes. You will also mentor Operations Engineers, produce operational reports, govern service-management workflows, provide operational coverage when needed, and participate in a rotating weekend on-call schedule.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as Incident Commander for major incidents and coordinate cross-functional response teams.
  • Drive incident investigations, escalation decisions, and resolution within SLA targets.
  • Own incident communications for leadership, Customer Success, partners, and customers.
  • Manage customer-facing status page updates.
  • Facilitate blameless post-incident reviews and track corrective actions to closure.
  • Analyze incident trends, recurring issues, and production bugs.
  • Create Problem tickets and report recommendations to product and engineering teams.
  • Enforce the incident management framework, including severity, priority, SLA, escalation, and deployment-readiness processes.
  • Mentor Operations Engineers on triage, investigation, runbooks, and documentation.
  • Produce shift handoff reports and operational KPI reporting.
  • Audit service catalogue completeness and govern JIRA Service Management workflows.
  • Cover Operations Engineer duties during absences or surge incidents.
  • Participate in a rotating weekend on-call schedule for major incidents.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in incident management, SRE, NOC leadership, or technical operations supporting high-availability and high-transaction production systems.
  • Incident management experience coordinating multi-team responses, making escalation decisions, and communicating with executive stakeholders.
  • Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
  • Strong ITIL knowledge across incident, problem, and change management.
  • Observability expertise, including logs, traces, metrics, APM, SLOs, error budgets, burn-rate alerting, and synthetic monitoring.
  • Hands-on experience with Datadog, PagerDuty or OpsGenie, JIRA or JIRA Service Management, Slack, and Confluence.
  • Ability to analyze incident data and provide actionable recommendations.
  • Experience with SLA/SLO-driven operations and MTTD, MTTA, and MTTR metrics.
  • Experience with or strong interest in AI/ML-assisted operations.
  • Ability to work in 24x7 shift-based operations and participate in rotating weekend on-call.

Benefits

  • Mac workstation and additional hardware.
  • Health insurance covering medical, dental, and optical care for employees and dependants.
  • Flexible working hours.
  • No dress code.
  • New office environment.

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