Incident Manager - Senior [Customer IT Support] at Plata Card · Mexico

The Customer IT Support team is responsible for leading and coordinating critical outages and engaging technical and other specialists across the company to keep the incident moving toward resolution.

Short Summary:

As an Incident Manager, you will lead response initiatives for pivotal incidents impacting customers and Plata products, ensuring swift resolution and championing continuous growth and refinement of our IT environment.

Challenges that await you:

• Lead our incident response from detection to resolution and retrospective analysis, ensuring minimal impact on our clients by making critical decisions quickly
• Take personal ownership of critical Incidents
• Demonstrate leadership and seamless coordination with global teams, both technical and business
• Assign incident roles and delegate tasks to the incident’s participants
• Organize post-incident recovery actions and customer communication
• Participate in post-incident reviews to identify root causes and improve future responses
• Mentor and develop the IT Support Duty Team members
• Train incident participants on how to act during critical incidents
• Take part in the company-wide improvements in terms of monitoring, alerting, and incident management processes

What makes you a great fit:

• 3+ years' experience in handling significant incidents in a 24/7 high-load environment
• 5+ years in roles in engineering, product, or service delivery
• Clear, structured communication (including C-suite executives) under high pressure
• Ability to coordinate multiple teams simultaneously
• Strong decision-making in uncertain conditions
• Experience in Public Cloud, Microservices, and monitoring systems
• The technical aptitude to understand our technology stack and incident response protocols
• Ability to size up a situation, assess the effectiveness of various tactics/strategies, and make rapid decisions on appropriate courses of action
• Has flexibility and ability to listen to expert feedback, modifying plans on the fly as necessary

Your Bonus Skills:

• Experience in Fintech in a similar role, SRE, or other technical roles
• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, and Kafka
• Experience working with http://incidents.io, Rootly, FireHydrant, or similar Incident Management Systems
• Experience coordinating with Legal, Communications, Privacy, and other non-technical stakeholders

Our ways of working:

• Innovative Spirit: A commitment to creativity and groundbreaking solutions
• Honest Feedback: valuing open, transparent communication
• Supportive Team: a strong, collaborative community
• Celebrating Achievements: recognizing our wins together
• High-Tech Environment: a team full of smart and revolutionary people who date to challenge the status quo of incumbent finances

Our benefits:

• Relocation support to Mexico with assistance for the employee and their family
• Flexible work: hybrid or full-time from our office in Mexico or or remotely within time zones from GMT-8 to GMT-3
• Healthcare Coverage
• Education Budget: Language lessons, professional training and certifications
• Wellness Budget: Mental health and fitness activity reimbursements
• Vacation policy: 20 days of annual leave and paid sick leave