The Role
IT Technology Services Expert – Availability Management
Responsibilities:
- Drive technical resolution of long running outages
- Drive technical resolution of outages related to critical and escalated customers
- Preparation and driving of action plan to de-escalate situation related to Outages and RCAs
- Drive action plans to prevent recurring outages
- Support complex RCAs
- Improve the utilization of colleagues (Problem Coordinators & CIMs) in their respective regions.
- Exceptional RCA request approval.
- Take necessary steps to address the Global escalations.
- Drive internal initiatives or projects or reporting (Delivery KPI, review TSM feedback, GCS collaboration etc).
- Outage and RCA review
- Support leadership team with outage and RCA related info specific to customers and regions
Tasks
- Validate action plans for long running outages and outages for critical / escalated customers
- Review Find & Fix guides and ensure it remains up to date
- Join bridge calls for long running and critical outages
- Review RCAs for critical / escalated customers
- Facilitate ZOR and CIM lessons learnt meetings
- Supervise and prepare report creation for ZOR and CIM
- Participate in regular regional cadence
- Resolve critical incidents and RCAs
- Ensure standardization of processes followed by CIM and ZOR across regions
- Analyze customer, TSM / CDM feedback and define action plans
- Own continuous improvement framework for Availability Management and drive resolution of impediments by defining suitable countermeasures
- Presentation to senior management on incident trend, analysis and action plan
- Coordination of international teams in global projects / crisis handling / de-escalation initiatives
- The expectation is that the role does not only concentrate on Basis / application issues but can own incident resolution and RCA end-to-end and work together with other teams and functions to resolve incident
Experience and Educational Requirements
- DB expert. Specializes in ABAP, JAVA, Business object and HANA DB.
- Experience in a Senior or Expert position in the operational business
- Solid knowledge in IT and solution
- Experience in customer interaction
- Experience in working in a virtual set-up involving teams spread across globally
- Experience in decision making within own area of responsibility / project
- Expert level verbal and written English communication
- Experience of coordination across teams and lines of business to solve problems
- Being data driven and expert level working knowledge on SAP Analytics Cloud Reports and Cloud Reporting
- Experience with Service Now will be an added advantage
ITIL Foundation Certification, cloud operations / hyperscaler related certification, project management certification will be added advantage