Senior Incident Manager - Act

This highly visible Senior Incident Manager role provides an exciting opportunity to join high performing, very experienced team of IT professionals. The team is focused on delivering value to our customers and enjoys a high level of autonomy.
Our Why
Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.
About the Role (your why)
Our IT Service Operations team are a passionate bunch, and we genuinely care about maximising the value and service we deliver to our clients. If you get a real kick out of positively impacting some of Australasia’s brightest organisations, read on!
Our offices are based in Canberra or Sydney, we like to bring people together in person when we can, but we are mindful of the benefits of working from home for work/ life balance. We therefore leave it to you and the team you join to figure out what works best!
To be successful in this role, you will require Australian Citizenship due to customer requirements and existing Baseline or NV1 Clearances will be highly regarded.
What you’ll do
As a Senior Incident Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring that all Incidents are carefully managed. This includes collaboration and coordination across technical teams to ensure customer expectations are met, and information needs of decision makers are achieved. The role is outcome oriented and requires engagement with other process managers such as Event and Problem to ensure early identification and reduced likelihood of repeat incidents.
You will work closely with technical specialists across several technologies in a multi-vendor environment. Additionally, you will have responsibility for identification of improvement opportunities, including maintenance and improvement of Incident Management, policies, processes, and procedures, with a focus on continual service improvement.
We are a pretty agile company, and are keen to respond to customer, technology and internal stakeholders’ changing requirements and this can mean we evolve in our roles to meet those needs.
What you’ll bring
We are looking for someone who is proficient in leading efficient resolution of incidents using process to solve technical issues and develop a strong cross-functional team cooperation. You will need excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, ITIL Foundation accreditation and a solid understanding of IT Service Management. You will have demonstratable experience as an Incident Manager in large and complex IT and business environments, preferably within managed services.
The following will be highly desirable:

• Extensive years of experience in the IT industry or bachelor's degree in IT
• Minimum ITIL v4 Foundation accreditation
• Current or recent experience in major incident management role
• Excellent communication & time management skills
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Ability to work well within a multi-geographical distributed and diverse team.

Why join us here at Datacom?
Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. We have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.
We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few. You’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect and bring your true self to work. You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment.
We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.
We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken and continue to take to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported.