Program Manager - Incident Coordinator
Employer: GitHub
Location: In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom
Working hours: Full time
Salary: Not listed
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Job Description
About GitHub
As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 150+ million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate and experiment across 420+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.
Locations
In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom
OverviewGitHub is seeking a dynamic and passionate Incident Coordinator who is customer focused and enjoys working in a fast paced environment with an amazing team of Incident Coordinators.
The primary responsibilities for an Incident Coordinator is to lead the internal technical coordination for urgent issues that are impacting GitHub customers.
This role requires the ability to manage and oversee multiple internal work streams with the sole focus of getting the customer back up and operational in the least amount of time as well as articulate in writing complex technical status updates that may be shared with senior management and the customer.
ResponsibilitiesEngage on escalations that are of an “urgent” nature that are impacting customer’s ability to use and access their GitHub environment.
Work with support, and engineering to ensure that the right internal technical resources are engaged and actively working to restore service
Provide internal updates to GitHub leadership on progress that is being made on restoring service
Conduct Retrospectives when needed to address any gaps in support process or to ensure that any found bugs are addressed by engineering in a timely manner
Work with both support and engineering teams to assign and follow up on any action items that might have come about during a Retrospective
Various project work that aligns with the vision and goals of the Incident Coordination team.
Attend any customer facing calls when necessary to ensure that that customer’s expectations are being met as much as possible and realign expectations if you are unable to meet the customers expectations.
Manage difficult conversations with the customer and work to realign expectations and try and de-escalate the situation as much as possible.
QualificationsRequired Qualifications:
Minimum of 5 years experience in technical customer support, technical writing, system administration, or related roles
OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 3+ years experience in technical customer support, technical writing, system administration, or related roles
OR equivalent experience
Minimum of 3 years of experience managing critical incidents with high levels of responsibility and ownership
Minimum of 3 years of experience providing direct customer facing support (video/phone)
Must be able to work async and rotating on-call weekends
Preferred Qualifications:
ITIL V3 certified or later
Experience partnering with product and engineering teams, public relations and communications professionals, account teams, and security incident response teams
Experience working with the Linux CLI
Experience working with the GitHub platform including GitHub Foundations certified and/or GitHub Administration certified
Experience working in a fully remote environment
GitHub values
Customer-obsessed
Ship to learn
Growth mindset
Own the outcome
Better together
Diverse and inclusive
Manager fundamentals
Model
Coach
Care
Leadership principles
Create clarity
Generate energy
Deliver success
Who We Are
GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.
Equal Employment Opportunity
GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!
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