Role: ServiceNow Production Support Manager
Location: Bangalore/Hyderabad
Experience: 10+ years
Employment Type: Full-Time
Role Summary
We are seeking an experienced ServiceNow Production Support Manager to lead and manage 24x7 production support operations for a large-scale ServiceNow environment supporting critical business services. This role is responsible for ensuring platform stability, operational excellence, service availability, incident reduction, and continuous improvement across multiple ServiceNow applications and modules.
The ideal candidate will have strong ServiceNow platform knowledge, proven leadership experience managing global support teams, and the ability to work in rotational shifts to support business-critical operations across multiple time zones.
Key Responsibilities
ServiceNow Platform Management
- Support ServiceNow ITSM, ITOM, CMDB, Discovery, Service Catalog, Integration Hub, and custom applications.
- Coordinate platform upgrades, patching, maintenance activities, and releases.
- Review platform risks and implement mitigation strategies.
- Ensure compliance with security, audit, and governance requirements.
Production Operations Management
- Lead end-to-end production support for ServiceNow platform and associated applications.
- Manage day-to-day operations, incident queues, escalations, and operational governance.
- Ensure adherence to SLAs, OLAs, and operational KPIs.
- Drive continuous service improvement and operational excellence initiatives.
- Monitor platform health, availability, performance, and capacity.
Incident & Problem Management
- Act as escalation manager for critical incidents and service disruptions.
- Lead Major Incident Management (MIM) activities and stakeholder communications.
- Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and drive preventive action plans.
- Ensure timely resolution of incidents and reduce recurring issues.
Team Leadership
- Manage and mentor ServiceNow production support engineers across multiple shifts.
- Oversee workforce planning, shift scheduling, and on-call coverage.
- Drive team performance, knowledge management, and professional development.
- Establish operational standards, SOPs, and support playbooks.
Transition & Vendor Management
- Lead knowledge transfer and transition activities from vendors or managed service providers.
- Coordinate with engineering, development, infrastructure, and business teams.
- Track deliverables, risks, dependencies, and operational readiness.
Reporting & Governance
- Present operational metrics and service health updates to leadership.
- Track KPIs include:
- SLA compliance
- MTTR
- Incident volumes
- Change success rate
- Problem backlog
- Service availability
- Drive executive reviews and operational governance meetings.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
- 10+ years of IT operations and production support experience in ServiceNow Platform.
- 5+ years of experience managing ServiceNow production support teams.
- Strong knowledge of ITIL processes and service management practices.
- Experience supporting large enterprise ServiceNow environments.
- Experience leading global teams in a 24x7 operational model.
Preferred Skills
- ServiceNow Certified System Administrator (CSA).
- ServiceNow Certified Implementation Specialist (CIS).
- ITIL Foundation or ITIL Intermediate certification.
- Knowledge of SRE principles, automation, monitoring, and platform reliability.
- Experience with Agile, DevOps, and Continual Service Improvement (CSI).
- Telecom industry experience preferred.
Key Competencies
- Leadership and people management
- Stakeholder management
- Crisis management and decision making
- Operational strategy and execution
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
Shift Requirement
- Must be willing to work in rotational shifts supporting a global 24x7 environment.
- Participate in on-call rotations and major incident bridges as required.
- Ability to support weekend releases, maintenance windows, and critical business events.
Weekly Hours:
40Time Type:
RegularLocation:
IND:AP:Hyderabad / Argus Bldg 4f & 5f, Sattva, Knowledge City- Adm: Argus Building, Sattva, Knowledge City, IND:KA:Bengaluru / Innovator Building, Itpb, Whitefield Rd - Adm: Intl Tech Park, Innovator BldgIt is the policy of AT&T to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, AT&T will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. AT&T is a fair chance employer and does not initiate a background check until an offer is made.
Skills Required
- Hands-on experience supporting the ServiceNow platform
- ServiceNow Certified System Administrator (CSA)
- Understanding of Incident Management
- Understanding of Problem Management
- Understanding of Change Management
- Understanding of Service Catalog
- Familiarity with Business Rules
- Familiarity with Workflows / Flow Designer
- Integration troubleshooting experience
- Experience with system monitoring tools
- Experience managing production support operations and shift-based environments
- Strong knowledge of SLA and escalation management
- Experience handling Major Incident processes
- Team supervision, mentoring, and task assignment experience
- Excellent communication and stakeholder coordination skills
- ITIL Foundation Certification
- Experience managing support teams
- Experience with enterprise-level production environments
- Exposure to multi-instance ServiceNow environments
AT&T Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about AT&T and has not been reviewed or approved by AT&T.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage spans medical, dental, vision, and mental health services, plus a personal healthcare team, wellness apps, and supplemental options such as fertility care, cancer support, doula services, and wigs for chemotherapy. These comprehensive offerings are portrayed as supporting a wide range of employee needs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off includes vacation, holidays, sick days, caregiver time, parental leave, and adoption assistance, with some roles reaching about 23 days of PTO after several years. Community volunteer days and flexible time off options add further support for work-life balance.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Employees receive sizable service discounts like 50% off most wireless plans and broadband, along with savings on travel, event tickets, and insurance. Additional workplace perks such as hybrid work models and relocation assistance contribute to overall value.
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