II - Incident Excellence (Hybrid)
II - Incident Excellence (Hybrid)
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About HashiCorp
HashiCorp solves development operations and security challenges in infrastructure so organizations can focus on business-critical tasks. We build products to give organizations a consistent way to manage their move to cloud-based IT infrastructures for running their applications. Our products enable companies large and small to mix and match AWS Microsoft Azure Google Cloud and other clouds as well as on-premises environments easing their ability to deliver new applications.
We use the Tao of HashiCorp as our guiding principles for product development and operate according to a strong set of company principles for how we interact with each other. We value top-notch collaboration and communication skills both among internal teams and in how we interact with our users.
Our Team
The HashiCorp Incident Excellence team is responsible for improving HashiCorps incident response while maximizing learning from incidents. Our focus is on helping all engineers feel confident when they are on-call and improving communication to efficiently resolve incidents and build trust in our brand. We partner closely with teams to drive a holistic incident management strategy and share learnings to help our business continuously improve.
About this Role
This engineering role is on a nascent engineering team. The team is responsible for products that touch many areas of engineering organizations at HashiCorp so applicants will need to excel at collaboration have product-focused mindsets and be comfortable iterating in an agile manner towards solutions.
You will provide expert execution of the incident command process including running and managing high-severity incident bridges and driving transparent communication that promotes maximum levels of internal and external customer satisfaction.
Collaborate with an array of technical stakeholders and executives to drive resolution during incidents and improve overall response for future incidents and technical escalations.
Utilize top-notch troubleshooting techniques to identify organize and advocate for novel solutions to remediate customer impact on complex interconnected systems.
Participate in a closed-loop post-incident learning process driving insights and meaningful action
Iterative improvements in response through consistent drills tabletops and game-day exercises
Push the boundaries of innovation in incident management to deliver best-in-class incident response.
In this role you can expect to:
- Be responsible for and drive incident management capabilities and culture.
- Contribute to incident command on-call
- Build technical skills and relationships within a team of engineers and SREs.
- Lead and refine our incident response strategy ensuring rapid and effective response to operational disruptions.
- Analyze incident trends and root causes to drive continuous improvements in system reliability and response processes.
- Develop and maintain tools for incident detection analysis and resolution automating responses where possible to minimize human intervention.
- Create comprehensive incident response documentation and conduct training sessions to prepare all relevant teams for effective incident handling.
- Work closely with development operations and security teams to coordinate incident response efforts and post-incident analyses.
You may be a good fit for our team if:
- Minimum 10 - 12 years of experience in site reliability engineering systems administration or software engineering with a significant focus on incident response and operational reliability.
- 8 years managing coordinating and ensuring resolution of major incidents.
- Professional experience with incident management in cloud environments.
- Enjoy working on a variety of scopes spanning software engineering cloud infrastructure and SRE.
- Proven track record of managing and resolving incidents in cloud-based environments with expertise in major public cloud platforms (AWS GCP Azure).
- Understanding of fundamental network technologies like DNS Load Balancing SSL TCP/IP HTTP
- Strong understanding of monitoring and alerting systems with the ability to develop metrics and alarms that accurately reflect system health and operational risks.
- Experience with incident management tools and practices including post-mortem analysis and root cause investigation.
- Passion for consistently responding to and leading complex incidents in a 24x7x365 environment utilizing a globalized follow-the-sun model.
- Customer-centric attitude with a focus on providing best-in-class incident response for customers and stakeholders
- Familiarity with HashiCorps product suite and infrastructure automation tools is a plus.
- Demonstrate strong leadership skills during periods of significant business impact remaining calm and professional during high-pressure situations
- A strong desire to drive customer success with partner teams and management on high-profile issues critical to the long-term success of the business
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills with the ability to convey information in a meaningful way to both engineers and executive-level management during and outside of incidents
- Adaptable to a wide variety of technologies and capable of incident response and troubleshooting activities in complex interconnected environments
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Employment Type
Full Time
