Problem Management Specialist

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Problem Management Specialist coordinating root-cause investigations and corrective actions. Improving reliability across Vantage’s hyperscale data center operations.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage the end-to-end Problem Management lifecycle for qualifying Site Operations incidents
  • Facilitate structured root cause analysis with Site Operations and technical stakeholders
  • Coordinate corrective and preventive actions across Site Operations, Reliability Engineering, the Operations Management Center, Automation Systems, Security, vendors, and support teams
  • Maintain accurate and auditable Problem, task, known-error, workaround, outage, work order, and change information in ServiceNow
  • Support post-incident follow-up for Site Operations P1 and P2 events
  • Analyze recurring incidents, failure modes, cause codes, and cross-site trends to identify systemic risks
  • Publish lessons learned, known errors, workarounds, and validated corrective actions
  • Participate in process improvement, automation, tools implementation, and QA testing
  • Review incidents and initiate Problem records when root cause analysis or recurrence prevention is required
  • Plan and facilitate root cause analysis sessions
  • Document problem statements, impacts, contributing factors, root causes, cause codes, workarounds, known errors, lessons learned, and recommended actions
  • Create, assign, and track problem tasks, corrective and preventive actions, work orders, and change requests through closure
  • Monitor records and actions for aging, service-level performance, overdue commitments, dependencies, and risks
  • Prepare internal, executive, and customer-facing RCA reports, status updates, governance metrics, and trend summaries
  • Develop and maintain Problem Management procedures, templates, quality standards, dashboards, training materials, and governance routines
  • Define reporting, workflow, automation, and data-quality requirements and support testing and implementation improvements in ServiceNow and related tools

Requirements:

  • Demonstrated experience applying ITIL Problem Management principles, including problem identification, root cause analysis, known-error management, corrective-action tracking, and formal closure
  • Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology, Business Management, related field, or equivalent experience
  • 3 years of experience in Problem Management or equivalent supporting function
  • Hands-on experience managing Problem records, problem tasks, known errors, workarounds, and related incident and change records in ServiceNow or a comparable IT service management platform or CMMS
  • Ability to facilitate structured investigations with technical and operational teams
  • Working knowledge of root cause analysis methods such as the 5 Whys, causal-factor analysis, fault-tree analysis, and fishbone diagrams
  • Strong organizational, written, and verbal communication skills
  • Experience coordinating multiple action owners, dependencies, due dates, service-level commitments, and escalations across concurrent investigations
  • Ability to translate complex technical findings into concise root cause analysis reports, executive updates, customer communications, and lessons learned
  • Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, engineering, service management, vendors, and business stakeholders
  • Advanced skills in Microsoft Office 365: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, and Visio
  • Data Center, high-tech, or rapid-growth industry experience strongly preferred but not required
  • Up to 5% travel required

Benefits:

  • Bonus eligibility
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Life and AD&D coverage
  • Short- and long-term disability coverage
  • Paid time off
  • Employee assistance program
  • 401(k) program with company match
  • Additional voluntary benefits
  • Above-market total compensation package
  • Recognition, training, and development opportunities