Incident Response Analyst

at  Amach

ABOUT US:

Amach is an industry-leading technology driven company with headquarters located in Dublin and remote teams in UK and Europe.
Our blended teams of local and nearshore talent are optimised to deliver high quality and collaborative solutions.
Established in 2013, we specialise in cloud migration and development, digital transformation including agile software development, DevOps, automation, data and machine learning…
As a member of the technology incident response team, the Incident Response Analyst contributes to the process of identifying, containing, analyzing, and recovering from incidents that impact business critical processes. They are responsible for contributing to the policies that facilitate activities within the Incident framework, the incident playbooks and decision trees, running tabletop incident exercises, running incident retrospectives, and contributing to the incident knowledge process within and outside the team.
They require a combination of technical and interpersonal skills, as well as certain qualities, such as proactivity, adaptability, responsibility, accountability, confidence, assertiveness, curiosity, eagerness, ethics, and trustworthiness.

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT:

• Captures and shares knowledge about incidents to prevent future occurrences
• Creates knowledge base articles and best practices

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• At least 3 or more years’ practical experience of Incident Management Frameworks in methodologies like ITIL, COBIT or DevOps-style incident and problem management processes
• Knowledge of configuration management processes
• Experience with incident and problem management tools, including ServiceNow and monitoring tools such as Cloudwatch, and alerting tools like OpsGenie, PagerDuty or similar
• Experience with knowledge supporting tools including SharePoint, JIRA and Confluence or similar, with the ability to learn new skills quickly
• Data analysis and reporting skills, with experience in tools such as PowerBI an advantage
• Broad experience of modern IT infrastructure and applications
• Strong conflict resolution skills, to resolve disagreements efficiently without damaging relationships
• Analytical and critical thinking, emotional intelligence, and strong stress management, necessary for assessing a situation, making informed decisions, and handling the pressure of incidents
• Strong conflict resolution skills, to resolve disagreements efficiently without damaging relationships
• Experience in stakeholder management, with an ability to communicate across levels of an organisation
• Good understanding of the purpose and function of SLAs, to allow you to evaluate a team’s performance and identify areas for improvement
• Proactive and adaptable to changing scenarios and requirements, and responsible and accountable for their actions and results
• Experience contributing to incident and problem management strategies, identifying opportunities for improvement

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