Response Manager Jobs

Wavelo is a new software business that’s on a mission to make telecom a breeze.
We provide flexible software that modernizes how communication service providers (CSPs) do business, helping them drive more value, focus on customer experience, and scale their operations faster.
As part of Tucows (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC) —a global leader in internet services and SaaS platforms— Wavelo is backed by outstanding resources and talent. We embrace a people-first philosophy that is rooted in respect, trust, and flexibility. We believe that whatever works for our employees is what works best for us.
The work we do genuinely changes lives. If this sounds exciting, we’d love to hear from you!
About the opportunity:
As a Response Manager, you are responsible for optimally leading the incident management process to its resolution and restoring our company's IT service operations with minimal disruption. In this role, you will log and categorize recurring incidents to develop ways to improve incident management protocols.
The Response Manager will focus on planning for incident prevention, prediction, and management with the goal of maintaining service availability and performance at the highest possible levels before, during, and after any disaster-level incidents.
To succeed in this position, you ideally have an aptitude for picking up new technologies, are a strong problem-solver and can keep a cool head and steady hand during significant incidents.
This is a part-time position requiring 20 hours per week.
What you'll be doing:

• Conduct learning review meetings and create root cause analysis documents for internal and customer-facing incidents.
• Oversee and maintain the incident management process.
• Enable continual refinement of the incident process as needed to optimize efficiency.
• Respond to a reported service incident, identify the cause, and initiate the process on a 24/7 on-call basis.
• Prioritize incidents according to their level of urgency and impact on the business.
• Take charge of communications to executive leadership regarding significant issues in Wavelo’s system.
• Log all incidents and their resolution to identify recurring incidents.
• Collaborate with the Response team to ensure that all incident protocols are diligently followed.

What you bring:

• Excellent written communication skills, able to distill complex technology scenarios into clear and easy-to-understand decisions, actions and consequences.
• Technical knowledge of supporting systems built in Linux/Unix operating systems, Cloud (public and private) environments and technologies.
• Strong Documentation skills to create standard operating procedures and incident reports.
• 2 to 4 years of demonstrated ability working in IT service management, or a similar role.
• A strong problem solver who effectively applies problem analysis methodologies.
• Experience supporting highly available and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Experience working with IT monitoring systems and software such as Grafana, Zabbix, etc.
• Strong knowledge of IT Service Management Practices.
• Willingness to embrace DevOps practices & methodologies.

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