
Senior Incident Manager
About the role
Senior Incident Manager
Role Overview
Senior Incident Manager
high-availability infrastructure, large-scale GPU clusters, networking, and cloud platforms
Incident Leadership
• Lead the response to
critical (SEV-1 / SEV-2) incidents
impacting AI infrastructure, GPU clusters, networking, storage, and data center operations.
• Serve as the
Incident Commander
during major outages, coordinating engineering, networking, facilities, and vendor teams.
• Act as the liaison between leadership and external teams during incidents / post-incidents to provide updates and status summaries.
• Establish clear incident timelines, triage actions, and resolution plans.
Incident Management Operations
• Own the
incident response lifecycle
including:
• Assisting Technical Triage
• Escalation
• Coordination
• Resolution Post-incident review
• Ensure
timely and accurate communication
with internal stakeholders and leadership.
• Maintain incident response documentation and operational playbooks.
• Conduct analysis on incidents and identify patterns / trends for improvement in response and systems reliability.
• Work in an On-Call Rotation to respond to, lead, and coordinate incidents
Cross-Functional Coordination
• Work closely with:
• Data center operations
• Infrastructure engineering & operations
• Network engineering
• Platform reliability engineering
• Security operations
• Hardware and facility vendors
• Drive alignment during outages involving multiple infrastructure layers.
Post-Incident Analysis & Continuous Improvement
• Lead
post-incident reviews (PIRs)
and root cause analysis. Identify systemic reliability gaps and implement corrective actions.
• Track incident metrics including
MTTR, MTTD, and incident recurrence rates
Operational Excellence
• Improve incident response processes, escalation paths, and tooling by working with technical support and engineering teams..
• Contribute to
runbooks, operational standards, and reliability frameworks
.
• Support implementation of
automation and observability improvements
Communication & Reporting
• Provide executive-level incident summaries and reports.
• Deliver clear, concise updates during active incidents.
• Maintain incident dashboards and operational health reporting.
You
8+ years
incident management, site reliability engineering, or infrastructure operations
• Experience managing incidents in
large-scale distributed infrastructure environments
• Strong understanding of:
• Data center operations
• GPU compute clusters Networking and storage infrastructure
• Cloud or hybrid infrastructure platforms
• Proven ability to
lead high-pressure incident response situations
• Experience with incident management frameworks (ITIL, SRE, or equivalent)
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience with incident tracking and monitoring tools such as:
• PagerDuty
• ServiceNow
• Jira
• Datadog
• Prometheus / Grafana
Nice to Have
• Experience operating
AI or HPC infrastructure
• Background in
SRE, infrastructure engineering, or data center operations
• Familiarity with
high-density GPU environments (NVIDIA clusters, InfiniBand networks)
• Experience with
hyperscale or colocation data center environments
• Knowledge of
automation and incident response tooling
• Knowledge of and experience with Incident command system (ICS)
• Experience in leading and developing incident command from stractch
Key Competencies
• Incident Command & Leadership
• Operational Decision Making
• Cross-Team Coordination
• Root Cause Analysis
• Crisis Communication
• Infrastructure Reliability
What Success Looks Like in This Role
• Reduced
Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR)
for critical incidents
• Improved cross-team incident coordination
• High-quality post-incident reviews and corrective actions
• Increased infrastructure reliability and operational maturity
Salary Range Information
About Lambda
• Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast
• Our investors notably include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove
• We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG
• Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers
• We offer generous cash & equity compensation
• Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
• 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
• Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use
Equal Opportunity Employer
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