Senior Engineer- Alerting & Incident Management

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  • Date posted

    August 7, 2025

  • Hiring location

    Abu Dhabi UAE

  • Career level

    Middle

  • Qualification

    Degree

Description

Job Objectives

  • Build and maintain a robust and intelligent alerting framework
  • Ensure effective incident response: fast detection, quick recovery, and root cause resolution
  • Unify observability data (logs, metrics, traces) into a cohesive incident response workflow
  • Drive automation and process discipline to reduce MTTD & MTTR

Role-Specific Responsibilities

  • Lead and continuously improve the incident management lifecycle
  • Act as incident commander for major outages
  • Manage on-call schedules, playbooks, and escalation paths
  • Integrate observability platforms with incident response tools
  • Conduct and document Root Cause Analyses (RCAs) and post-incident reviews
  • Track and report incident metrics and suggest resilience strategies

General Functional Duties

  • Maintain documentation on alert rules, workflows, escalation trees, and contact rosters
  • Ensure compliance with audit, risk, and regulatory frameworks
  • Align incident response processes with monitoring/APM/logging tools
  • Integrate best practices in SDLC and change management
  • Conduct regular incident simulations and drills
  • Promote a culture of blameless post-mortems and continuous improvement

Qualifications & Competencies

Core Technical Competencies
  • Strong experience in tools such as:
    • Opsgenie
    • Splunk On-Call
    • VictorOps
    • ServiceNow Event Management
  • Knowledge of:
    • Alert routing rules, deduplication, and escalation policies
    • On-call scheduling and noise suppression
    • Leading major incident bridges and stakeholder communication
    • Post-incident reviews (PIRs/RCAs)
Soft Skills
  • Calm under pressure and assertive during crises
  • Excellent coordination and communication skills with both technical and business teams
  • Strong documentation and analytical mindset

🚀 Why Apply?

  • Top financial brand with global recognition
  • High-growth, high-impact role in critical infrastructure
  • Exposure to cutting-edge observability and incident tooling
  • Strong focus on automation, agility, and operational excellence

Country

United Arab Emirates

Region

Abu Dhabi

Locality

Abu Dhabi

Company

Fisrt Abu Dhabi Bank

Valid Through

2025-11-20

select-type

Full Time

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