# Major Incident Manager — DXC Technology

Canonical: https://jobxdubai.com/jobs/li-4468223506-major-incident-manager
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Type: full_time · Level: lead
Monthly salary: AED 5,880 to 9,800 per month (estimated, not employer-stated) (UAE salaries are tax-free)
Posted: 2026-10-13
Apply: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/major-incident-manager-at-dxc-technology-4468223506?_l=en

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## Description

Key Responsibilities

• Perform 24x7 incident management activities to minimize service disruption and business impact.

• Register and manage incidents resulting from service degradation, outages, or operational alerts.

• Establish and manage communication, Incident Bridges for critical incidents.

• Coordinate technical troubleshooting, restoration activities, and stakeholder engagement.

• Ensure rapid decision-making and removal of operational roadblocks during incident resolution.

• Drive service restoration efforts while maintaining adherence to Incident Management processes

• Schedule and facilitate Major Incident Review meetings following incident resolution.

• Document incident timelines, triage activities, recovery actions, lessons learned, and improvement opportunities.

• Coordinate stakeholder participation during review sessions.

• Finalize and publish MIR reports.

• Coordinate Root Cause Analysis (RCA) activities for major incidents and recurring operational issues across internal technical teams, OEMs, third-party vendors, and stakeholders.

• Proactively identify and register problem records based on incident trends and potential service risks.

• Perform detailed problem determination and impact assessment activities.

• Create and manage problem records for all major incidents and significant service-impacting events.

• Ensure all problem records contain documented root causes, workarounds, corrective actions, and permanent resolutions.

• Track open problems and monitor progress toward resolution within agreed service levels.

• Facilitate investigation activities to determine underlying causes of incidents.

• Coordinate with technical teams, vendors, OEMs, and stakeholders to implement permanent fixes.

• Drive proactive remediation initiatives to eliminate recurring issues before they become service-affecting trends.

• Ensure corrective and preventive actions are implemented and validated.

• Coordinate implementation of temporary fixes to restore service continuity while permanent solutions are developed.

• Validate effectiveness of workarounds and permanent resolutions.

• Produce regular reports as agreed KPI like problem trends, RCA status, resolution timelines, reoccurring problems, incidents, SLA compliance etc.

• Ensure compliance with Incident and Problem Management policies, operational procedures, and regulatory requirements.

• Identify opportunities to enhance the Incident and Problem Management process.

• Provide recommendations to the CSI team regarding process improvements and automation opportunities.

• Drive initiatives aimed at reducing incident recurrence and improving service availability.

• Update knowledge repositories with verified root causes, known errors, workaround procedures, and permanent resolutions.

• Ensure lessons learned from major incidents are documented and communicated across support teams.

Technical Skills

• Major Incident Management

• Strong Root Cause Analysis (RCA) methodologies.

• Incident and Problem Management practices.

• Knowledge of ITIL Service Management framework.

• Trend analysis, reporting, and operational analytics.

• Knowledge of infrastructure, applications, cloud services, networks, databases, and security operations.

• SLAs, KPIs, and service performance management.

KPIs

• Reduction in recurring incidents.

• Percentage of Major Incidents with complete RCA.

• Problem and Major incident closure within SLA targets.

• Mean Time to Identify Root Cause (MTTRCA).

• Number of proactive problems identified and resolved.

Reduction in incident volume through permanent fixes

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