Synopsis of the role :

A Technical Service Management Career is responsible for managing all customer impacting incidents involving the services provided by Equifax. The team’s primary responsibility is to analyze and resolve incidents that arise in our environments ensuring the impact to our customers are minimized. Proactive responsibilities include the building of Incident Trend and Analysis to identify vulnerabilities, change review to minimize customer impacts, and involvement in operational readiness procedures. This team is also responsible for maintaining the Incident Communications process to ensure on-time and accurate notifications are being sent to internal partners and external customers.

What you will do

Using your experience and understanding of the ITIL Incident Management processes, you will work in an IT Service Management environment to support a large IT company's ITIL Incident Management Process.  

Frequently communicate with internal and external senior level executives; Major Incident communications are required to be submitted within strict SLA guidelines so the ability to quickly understand technical information and be able to translate to non-technical updates are a must.

Responsible for managing major incidents impacting a large number of external customers or internal employees.  Must have the ability to perform well under stressful conditions and provide leadership to a large number of technicians to resolve issues in a timely manner.  Diligence and attention to detail are key skills along with the ability to multitask and prioritize work appropriately.

Provide oversight of the environment to quickly identify correlating incidents that could evolve to larger events.  Provide guidance and leadership to the other members of the TOC team helping to direct an efficient and highly productive Incident Management team.

Troubleshoot IT services and identify opportunities for improvement as well as document preventive measures to ensure issues do not recur; share and discuss these findings with Leadership and the Problem Management team to ensure corrective actions or documented and followed through.

What experience you need

Bachelor’s Degree or Associate's Degree/Technical Certification or equivalent job experience required

Minimum 5 years Incident Management experience working on a technical triage team to remediate customer impacting incidents 

Work experience in an enterprise 24/7 production environment supporting critical, real-time applications

You've worked in an enterprise 24/7 production environment supporting critical, real-time applications

You possess excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with team members at various levels, including business leaders; providing end-to-end incident communications, both internally and externally

You're experienced working with one or more of the following tools/technologies: ServiceNow, App Dynamics, Apica, Extra Hop, Slack, Pager Duty, or similar tools

What could set you apart

You're capable of assessing business impact and urgency, declaring major incident and trigger business continuity and/or disaster recovery procedures

You've collaborated with Business Services and Change Managers to review change requests, and assist with decisioning and scheduling to minimize the risk of customer impact

You've led and participated in problem management meetings with focus on recent major incidents, Root Cause Analysis, incident trending, and operational issues

You've collaborated with multi-functional teams to ensure new applications and services are in compliance with Technology Operations Center standards, prior to deploying them into production

You have a real passion for and the ability to learn new technologies

Primary Location:

CAN-Toronto-5700 Yonge

Function:

Function - Tech Engineering and Service Ops

Schedule:

Full time