We are looking for Incident Management Engineers to support a global engagement focused on incident handling, communication, and post-incident reviews. The role requires strong analytical thinking, composure under pressure, and excellent communication skills to manage critical incidents effectively.
Responsibilities- Own the end-to-end lifecycle of all major P1 and P2 incidents within our 16x7 shift window, ensuring response and resolution milestones strictly adhere to corporate SLAs.
- Root Cause Analysis: Drive rapid technical triage by analyzing telemetry data, system metrics, monitors and logs to isolate the root cause of complex infrastructure and application failures.
- Data-Driven Troubleshooting: Proven ability to quickly interpret telemetry data, consumer lags, and pipeline bottlenecks under high-pressure scenarios to guide engineering teams toward a fix.
- Anomaly Mitigation: Actively monitor for performance anomalies, queue lags, and throughput drops to proactively mitigate downstream service degradation.
- Tool Proficiency: Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Datadog, Grafana
Assertive Communication & Stakeholder Alignment
- Maintain clear, concise, and assertive communication under pressure, cutting through technical noise to extract actionable statuses.
- Formulate and broadcast timely business-focused impact statements and progress metrics to executive leadership and client-facing teams.
- Isolate technical internal chat channels from high-level notification streams to keep critical updates data-rich and highly orderly.
Post-Incident Evolution & Continuous Improvement
- Perform rigorous Root Cause Analysis (RCA) once an incident is safely stood down. Facilitate and contribute to blameless Post-Incident Reviews (PIR) to track down systematic process or system vulnerabilities.
- Actively isolate operational bottlenecks and optimize playbooks to continuously improve Mean Time to Mitigate (MTTM) across critical systems
- Maintain structured handoffs between regions (EMEA & APAC)
- Experience in SRE / Incident Management / Production Support
- Strong communication & negotiation skills (must-have)
- Ability to manage high-pressure situations confidently
- Strong problem-solving and analytical mindset
- Technical knowledge on task execution.
- Good eye for details and understanding of workflows
Technical Skills:
- Ability to proactively identify risks using monitoring tools such as DataDog and Grafana dashboards
- Experience in incident response with capability to quickly restore services (restart, patch, or remediate live issues)
- Strong focus on minimizing service downtime across environments
- Hands-on experience supporting both on-premises (Linux environments) and cloud platforms (primarily Azure, with some exposure to GCP)
- Solid understanding of networking concepts and system architecture
- Understanding incident impact and skills to analyze and take decisions based on them.
- Good understanding of Service now, PagerDuty, JIRA, Databricks, Github actions and basics of Docker and Kubernetes.
- Understanding monitoring systems and able to troubleshoot the root cause of issue.
Skills Required
- Experience in SRE, incident management, or production support
- Strong communication and negotiation skills
- Ability to manage high-pressure situations confidently
- Strong problem-solving and analytical mindset
- Technical knowledge of task execution
- Attention to detail and understanding of workflows
- Experience using monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog and Grafana
- Incident response experience, including restarting, patching, or remediating live issues
- Experience supporting on-premises Linux environments and cloud platforms, primarily Azure with some GCP exposure
- Understanding of networking concepts and system architecture
- Understanding of ServiceNow, PagerDuty, Jira, Databricks, GitHub Actions, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Ability to analyze incident impact, identify risks, and make timely decisions
- Understanding of monitoring systems and root cause troubleshooting
EXL Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about EXL and has not been reviewed or approved by EXL.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical plan options include HSA, HRA, and PPO choices, with additional health-related programs such as disability coverage and an employee assistance program. Feedback suggests these options provide meaningful flexibility and coverage breadth for many roles.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Up to 20 days of paid time off, plus federal holidays and paid sick and safe time, are highlighted. Feedback suggests this leave structure is a notable benefit alongside core compensation.
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Retirement Support — A traditional and Roth 401(k) with up to a 3% company match and full vesting after one year is described. Feedback suggests this match and vesting timeline help bolster long-term savings.
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