Incident Management Reliability Engineer

Job title: Incident Management Reliability Engineer

• Location: Budapest

• Hybrid working

Our Team: 

Service Quality cultivates a culture of service excellence where quality is more than a benchmark – it's a shared purpose. Through synergistic collaboration, advanced monitoring, and empathetic customer advocacy, we strive to elevate every interaction and transform challenges into opportunities for growth. 

Main responsibilities: 

The Incident Management Reliability Engineer is responsible for ensuring the stability, resilience, and reliability of critical IT services. This role combines strong incident management expertise with reliability engineering principles to minimize disruptions, drive rapid recovery from major incidents, and continuously improve system performance and availability. 

Incident Management 

• Lead the end-to-end management of Major Incidents (P1/P2), ensuring timely resolution and effective stakeholder communication. 

• Act as command centre lead during critical outages, coordinating across technical and business teams. 

• Ensure accurate and detailed incident documentation, including root cause, timeline and resolution steps. 

• Drive post-incident-reviews and ensure action items are implemented to prevent recurrence. 

• Maintain consistent communication and escalation processes aligned with ITSM best practices (e.g. ITIL) 

Reliability Engineering 

• Collaborate with service owners and platform teams to enhance service reliability, observability, and fault tolerance. 

• Implement proactive monitoring, alerting, and automated recovery mechanisms. 

• Analyse incident trends and develop reliability improvement plans. 

• Participate in capacity planning, change reviews, and failure mode analysis to anticipate and mitigate risks. 

• Develop and track SLOs/SLIs/SLAs to measure service health and performance. 

Continuous Improvement 

• Partner with problem management to identify recurring issues and lead root cause elimination initiatives. 

• Automate operational tasks and enhance service recovery using scripts, runbooks, and AIOps tools. 

• Contribute to the evolution of the Major Incident Process, ensuring best practices are embedded across the organization. 

Key Performance Indicators 

• Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR) and Mean Time to Detect (MTTD). 

• Reduction in number and impact of recurring incidents. 

• Adherence to SLA/SLO targets. 

• Completion rate of post-incident actions. 

• Stakeholder satisfaction and transparency during incidents. 

About you 

Experience: 

• 8+ years' experience. 

Preferred Certifications: 

• ITIL v4 or Service Operations certification. 

• SRE Foundation / Practitioner certification. 

• Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, or GCP). 

• Incident Command System (ICS) or equivalent leadership training in crisis response. 

Soft skills: 

• Communication (verbal and written). 

Essential Technical skills: 

• Networking

Technical skills (nice to have): 

• Virtualization 

• Cloud Technologies 

• Database 

• Containerization 

• Automation 

• Middleware/Scheduling 

• Infrastructure as code 

Languages:  

• English 

Why choose us?

• An international work environment, in which you can develop your talent and realize ideas and innovations within a competent team

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team

• An environment based on last technologies and frequent training to reinforce your profile

• Be part of a simpler, digital- and AI-powered business that’s rethinking how we work and engage with the world

Join an Award-Winning Team at Sanofi Budapest Hub!

Be part of something exceptional. Our Budapest Hub has been recognized for workplace excellence, innovation, and our commitment to putting people first. See the full list of our awards at the end of this posting.

Office of the Year 2025 – Evolution Award
Our most recent award – Sanofi is recognized for creating an innovative workspace that supports collaboration and adaptability.

Marketing Diamond Award 2026 – Employer Branding
One of the highest honours at Hungary's prestigious Marketing Diamond Awards, recognizing excellence in employer branding.

BSC Investor of the Year 2025
Awarded by HIPA, ABSL Hungary, and AmCham Hungary for our contribution to Hungary's business services sector.

PwC Workforce Preference Survey 2025 – Top 3 Most Attractive Employers
Ranked 3rd among the most attractive employers in Hungary.

Hungarian Employer Branding Awards 2025 – Gold & Silver
Best Strategic Employer Branding Campaign (Gold) and Best Employer Branding Campaign in the Pharma Sector (Silver).

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Final compensation will be determined based on demonstrated experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs.