We have an urgent requirement for Monitoring & Incidents Analyst for our banking client in Muscat, Oman

candidate is required work on shift to perform 24x7 command center duties ---Must

Experience as an Incident or Problem Manager in an IT Application Operations environment. ---Must

Experience in performance monitoring and observability tools like Dynatrace, Riverbed NPM, SolarWinds, Grafana ,---Must

SRE certification is an added advantage.--

Overall Accountability

The command centre is used for end-to-end monitoring and observing all IT services using the relevant monitoring and observability tools implemented or being implemented at bank side. The candidate will be part of the

team responsible for operating the round clock command centre and monitoring the entire

bank IT assets using the monitoring capabilities applied within the command centre. This

will involve working on shifts as per the shift roster prepared by the supervisors.

• This candidate is required work on shift to perform 24x7 command centre duties and ensure all monitoring and observability tools are working in an uninterrupted manner.
• This role shall entail contributing to our command centre work activities involving monitoring of all 24x7 critical systems operation, following up service requests for all requests initiated from monitoring tools, and perform emergency escalation and reporting management.
• Liaise with on-site shift technical team to perform system inspection, emergency repair and emergency management with an aim to achieve a 100% facility uptime for our IT Services operations.
• Perform emergency escalation and reporting when systems abnormality occurs.
• Perform proper handover and takeover of daily duties to next shift co-worker by clearly indicating all task or work duties to follow-up by next shift co-worker, this include prepare daily 24x7 shift handover report and work activities summary.
• Provide incident report details information to Command Centre Leadership for preparation of Incident report and ready to issue within SLA.
• Assist in preparation of historical data log from the monitoring tools whenever required.
• Be part of a Command Centre team to handle Incident and Problem Management
• Assess and validate major incidents.
• Manage notifications and escalations as defined in the major incident management process.
• Help in coordinating recovery actions and plans for major incidents to resolution with the respective applications owners.
• Provide timely and informative updates to management, stakeholders, and users until incident closure.
• Participate in post-incident root cause analysis (RCA) as required and follow up on improvement plans.
• Understand and track outstanding actions, improvement plans for incidents escalated to Command Centre until closure.
• Provide monthly incidents trend updates to management.
• Work in close collaboration with internal teams throughout the life cycle to ensure cross-team alignment.
• Contact right support & vendors team(s) on time in case of incident (after scrutinizing the event/alert with the subject matter experts)
• Arrange triage in case of crisis
• Monitoring using existing tools & new EPM Perform pre-defined recovery process (following the runbooks).
• Create & Maintain knowledge library for Command center team to operate and detect
• Manage and follow-up on the incidents created by the monitoring tools/team
• Follow-up (RCA, Problem Calls, Implementation)
• Lead crisis calls and manage the war-room.
• Classify incidents based on priority (e.g., critical, high, medium, low)
• Coordinate between various IT teams & vendors to ensure swift resolution of incidents.
• Escalate incidents that require additional resources or senior management intervention.
• Maintain detailed records of incidents, actions taken, and resolution processes.
• Generate reports on incident management performance and incident trends.
• Conduct post-incident reviews to assess the effectiveness of the crisis response.
• Update crisis management plans based on lessons learned from the incident
• Act as the primary point of contact for all IT-related major incidents and crises.
• Ensure all issues are logged in appropriate internal and vendors tracking tools.
• Must make sure that regular updates on progress are conveyed to line managers.
• Ensure that appropriate corrective and preventive actions are undertaken and resolve problems as soon as they arise.
• Must ensure compliance to Risk Management and Audit standards.
• Must contribute ideas to help the support team to become more effective and seek
  
  

ideas from other team members.

Specific Responsibilities

• System Maintenance
• Ensure that a detailed impact analysis of any issue is carried out and viable solution
  
  

is recommended with the help of the respective application custodians.

• 24/7 shift availability
• System Enhancements
• Must ensure to use the Bank’s methodology for any enhancements undertaken.
• Come up with appropriate solutions to support line managers in making decisions and using right methodology during any development or issue resolution.
• Research and evaluate emerging technologies and trends and suggest course of action to line managers.
  
  

Key Skills

• Bachelor degree in IT or any related discipline.
• At least 3 years’ experience as an Incident or Problem Manager in an IT Application Operations environment.
• 3+ years’ experience in performance monitoring and observability tools like Dynatrace, Riverbed NPM, SolarWinds, Grafana, etc.
• Proven Techno-functional knowledge in performance and observability tools.
• Proven Techno-functional knowledge in IT related fields.
• SRE certification is an added advantage.
• Good understanding of the market trends and current technology.
• Good presentation skills, ability to express complex technical and business topics
• work experience in the banking industry is considered as a competitive advantage
  
  

The candidate should also have thorough knowledge of the following:

• Ready to work on shifts.
• Good level of programming knowledge in various languages.
• Good level of knowledge in database management systems and SQL.
• Solid knowledge in system design using Structured and Object-Oriented
  
  

methodology and good knowledge of SDLC.

• Good knowledge of current technology in the IT industry.
• Documentation & Report/MIS Preparation
• Good communication, presentation skills with good command of written English.
• Good Interpersonal relations with pleasing personality
  
  

Skills: presentation skills,grafana,incident,communication,sre certification,24x7,solarwinds,system design,problem management,documentation,monitoring,incident management,observability tools,24x7 command center duties,riverbed npm,dynatrace,sdlc,sql,performance monitoring tools

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