Senior Manager – Real Time Monitoring, Incident Management

Posted 58mins ago

Employment Information

Industry
Education
Salary
Experience
Job Type

Report this job

Job expired or something wrong with this job?

Job Description

Senior manager leading 24x7 monitoring and incident management for EPI’s Wero European digital payment platform. Directing major incidents, DORA compliance, observability, automation, and operational teams.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop, coach, and organize the Real Time Monitoring & Incident Management team
  • Structure roles, sustainable rotations, and on-call coverage
  • Partner with the Head of Support on operational support strategy, budget planning, capacity forecasting, and platform roadmap reviews
  • Architect and steer monitoring strategy across applications, cloud infrastructure, networks, data flows, APIs, and business-critical payment transactions
  • Direct P1/P2 incident responses and coordinate internal engineering squads and banking members
  • Lead crisis war rooms and manage communications during and outside business hours
  • Oversee payment and security incident management, classification, and reporting under DORA
  • Deliver root cause analyses and post-mortems and track remediation actions to completion
  • Optimize alerting thresholds, automate operational workflows, and integrate monitoring services into the service catalogue
  • Establish and report operational KPIs including MTTA, MTTR, SLA/SLO adherence, capacity, and platform availability
  • Act as deputy to the Head of Monitoring and Customer Support
  • Report directly to the Head of Monitoring and Customer Support

Requirements:

  • 10+ years of professional experience in IT operations, technical support, or monitoring
  • At least 5 years of experience in financial services, fintech, or payment systems
  • 5+ years of experience in a people management role
  • Proven ability to build, lead, and retain high-performing 24x7 operational teams
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Fluent in English (CEFR C1 or C2)
  • Proven ability to thrive in a remote-first, multicultural European environment
  • Proven composure and track record managing critical P1/P2 incidents under pressure, including out-of-hours escalations and executive stakeholder communication
  • In-depth experience designing alert thresholds and monitoring complex distributed environments, including cloud micro-services, networks, APIs, and schedulers
  • Practical expertise running blameless post-mortems, driving corrective actions, and establishing operational KPIs
  • Knowledge of DORA and regulatory standards for payment and security incident reporting
  • ITIL or PMP certifications and hands-on administrative familiarity with Datadog, PagerDuty, Jira, or ServiceNow are nice to have
  • French, German, Dutch, or another European language is an asset

Benefits:

  • Remote-first culture with quarterly and annual all-staff in-person meetups
  • Possibility to work from another EU country for up to 3 months per year
  • Competitive compensation package featuring salary and performance-based bonus
  • High-quality benefits program
  • Learning & development budget of €5,000 training budget per year
  • Opportunity to be part of a multicultural European company