Coordinate efforts to resolve critical customer issues, major interruptions, and client-impacting events
Collaborate with Snowflake on-call engineers, and monitor online activity data for multiple Snowflake Services to identify service disruptions
Develop strong partnerships internally with Sales, Services, Support, and Engineering
Work with a global mindset as part of a team of Cloud Service Management team (Problem Mgmt, Escalation Mgmt, Major Incident Mgmt)
Demonstrate strong judgment regarding incident management and problem mitigation, as well as the ability to make timely decisions from both business and technical perspectives
Partnering with Engineering and Product Management on the resolution of major incidents that impact our customers
Effectively drive for required solutions to provide the best customer experience
Understand major incident practices and how to analyze and apply data to a decision-making process
Understand proactive and reactive data points to develop a plan of action for our customers
View problems and solutions holistically, from multiple viewpoints, and create a plan of action to best satisfy the needs of all stakeholders
Manage customer-facing communications for incidents, explaining the details of disruption, the impact on customer applications, and how we are working towards a resolution
Maintain disciplined and regular communications while building credibility through timely action and responsiveness during the major incident
Effectively communicate critical issue status (both verbally and written) to executive staff, sales teams, and other involved parties
Utilize your contextual interpretation and writing skills to effectively summarize pages of information into concise and readable paragraphs
Understand and translate technical information and issues into business cases, impacts, and risks that can easily be interpreted by the customer
Meet deliverable timelines based on prescheduled activities and events, such as customer, team, and executive updates
Utilize business and technical skills to effectively manage customer impact, coordinate meetings, calls, and deliverables, and interpret trend/regression patterns
Participate in on-call rotation as needed, potentially including occasional evenings and weekends
OUR IDEAL SENIOR INCIDENT MANAGER WILL HAVE:
B.S. or M.S. degree in CS, MIS, or equivalent discipline
Technical competency in cloud environments, data warehouse architectures, and software development methods
4+ years of Support and/or Support Services related experience with a proven track record of delivering business value and improvement
4+ years of experience working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or a private cloud environment
Excellent abilities in business productivity applications (Google Workspace preferred) for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations
Previous experience in writing customer-facing root cause analysis or postmortem reports
Experience with ServiceNow
The ability to communicate the impact of the service incident with ease by shifting levels of communication between technical and non-technical
Technical understanding of software/platform/infrastructure (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS) architectures, application, use, and management
Excellent verbal, written, communication, and receptive listening skills.
High levels of emotional intelligence (EQ), empathy, proactivity, and the ability to advocate for both clients and internal teams alike, continuously striving for mutually-beneficial solutions
Successful experience working, collaborating, and establishing relationships with leadership, colleagues, and clients
The ability to adapt, be flexible, and learn quickly in a dynamic environment
Excellent teaming skills, able to work with virtual and global cross-functional teams
The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:
The estimated base salary range for this role is $95,000 - $140,300.
Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.