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Senior AIOps and Incident Management / Site Reliability Engineering

Sovereign TechnologiesFort Mill, SC🇺🇸United StatesPosted 17 Jul 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Senior AIOps and Incident Management / Site Reliability Engineering

We are seeking a Senior AIOps Incident Manager & Site Reliability Engineer to lead incident management, operational resilience, and intelligent automation initiatives across enterprise technology environments. This role will partner with Network Operations Center (NOC), Infrastructure Operations, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, and Application Support teams to proactively detect, respond to, and prevent technology incidents.

The ideal candidate combines hands-on incident management expertise with experience implementing observability, automation, and AI-driven operational solutions to improve system reliability, reduce operational overhead, and enhance customer experience. The candidate should possess deep expertise in AIOps, ITSM, ITIL, SRE, Incident Management, Cloud Operations, and Enterprise Infrastructure.

This is a hybrid role requiring on-site attendance up to three days per week. Candidates must reside within approximately one hour commuting distance of one of the following office locations:

  • Fort Mill, SC
  • Austin, TX
  • Boston, MA
  • New York, NY
  • Tempe, AZ
  • San Diego, CA

Incident & Recovery Management

  • Monitor, document, and analyze major incident response efforts and service recovery activities.
  • Serve as a senior escalation point for Tier 1 and Tier 2 operational incidents.
  • Conduct incident reviews, root cause analysis, and corrective action planning.
  • Improve Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR).

Site Reliability Engineering

  • Implement SRE practices to improve platform reliability, scalability, and resiliency.
  • Define and monitor SLAs, SLOs, and operational KPIs.
  • Develop proactive reliability and availability strategies.

AIOps & Automation

  • Implement AIOps solutions to automate incident detection, diagnosis, remediation, and prevention.
  • Build and optimize AI-powered operational agents and self-healing workflows.
  • Reduce operational effort through intelligent automation.

Observability & Monitoring

  • Lead enterprise monitoring initiatives using Dynatrace and related observability platforms.
  • Improve visibility across cloud, infrastructure, applications, and user experiences.
  • Enable predictive monitoring and anomaly detection.

ITSM & Service Operations

  • Develop and enhance incident, problem, change, and event management frameworks aligned with ITIL and ITSM best practices.
  • Leverage ServiceNow workflow automation to improve service delivery.

Cross-Functional Leadership

  • Partner with Infrastructure, DevOps, Cloud, Security, Application Development, and NOC teams.
  • Mentor operational teams and promote an automation-first culture.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor''s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 8+ years of experience in IT Operations, Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Operations, Network Operations, or Production Support environments.
  • 5+ years of experience leading incident management, operational transformation, or reliability engineering initiatives.

Strong experience with:

  • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
  • IT Service Management (ITSM)
  • ITIL Framework
  • Incident, Problem, Change, and Event Management
  • Network Operations Center (NOC)
  • Infrastructure Operations
  • Service Desk Operations
  • Application Production Support
  • Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform)
  • DevOps practices and toolchains

Preferred Experience

  • Hands-on experience with Dynatrace, monitoring platforms, and observability solutions.
  • Experience using ServiceNow for ticketing, workflow automation, and service management.
  • Strong understanding of infrastructure, networking, cloud architecture, and enterprise application ecosystems.
  • Proven experience conducting root cause analysis and implementing preventive controls.
  • Experience leading enterprise AIOps implementations.
  • Experience building AI-powered operational agents and intelligent automation solutions.

Preferred Certifications

  • ITIL Foundation or ITIL Managing Professional
  • Certified Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
  • AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud certifications
  • ServiceNow certifications

Nice to Have

  • Experience with workflow orchestration and enterprise automation platforms.
  • Familiarity with predictive analytics, machine learning operations, and autonomous operations frameworks.

 

Skills

AWS
Machine Learning
Azure
Google Cloud

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