Incident Manager

Job Description

Incident Manager

The Big Picture

Sysco LABS is the Global In-House Center of Sysco Corporation (NYSE: SYY), the world’s largest foodservice company. Sysco ranks 56th in the Fortune 500 list and is the global leader in the trillion-dollar foodservice industry.    

Sysco employs over 75,000 associates, has 337 smart distribution facilities worldwide and over 14,000 IoT-enabled trucks serving 730,000 customer locations. For fiscal year 2025 that ended June 29, 2025, the company generated sales of more than $81.4 billion.    

Sysco LABS Sri Lanka delivers the technology that powers Sysco’s end-to-end operations.      

Sysco LABS’ enterprise technology is present in the end-to-end foodservice journey, enabling the sourcing of food products, merchandising, storage and warehouse operations, order placement and pricing algorithms, the delivery of food and supplies to Sysco’s global network and the in-restaurant dining experience of the end-customer.  

The Opportunity

As an Incident Manager, you will be a part of the Sysco Incident management team based in Sri Lanka. You will be responsible for the Sysco Incident Management process and work with your incident management team to assess the severity of reported incidents, identify relevant service owners, initiate and lead incident management calls with relevant parties, communicate the progress of the incidents via relevant communication channels, ensure proper closure of those incidents, and carry out continuous auditing and improvements to the Incident Management process.  Using incident related data, you will drive further improvements into our automation, tooling, and processes so that the next event is shorter or avoided entirely. 

The Role:

• Ability to effectively communicate and facilitate identification, handling, and status reporting, offer solution options and alternatives, and change the implementation of various critical incidents and problems that have been reactively or proactively identified in the IT environment, effectively bringing them to resolution and/or closure. 
• Understanding Service Levels, determining the criticality of incidents, ensuring incidents are addressed within agreed SLAs by the service owners, and taking follow-up actions until incidents are resolved. 
• Initiating and leading the incident management calls with various stakeholders, providing progress updates via relevant channels until the incident is resolved for active critical incidents. 
• Ensuring the correct resources are working on the resolution of major incidents appropriate to their severity, and identifying when escalation is required, triggering such escalation accordingly. 
• Working closely with service owners to deliver a clear, concise picture of incidents and the short-term remediation applied, and making recommendations on long-term solutions. 
• Effectively documenting root cause analysis, business cases, solution strategies, incident and problem tracking, processes, and knowledge articles associated with implementing fixes and solutions to existing or predicted IT incidents and problems. 
• Building and maintaining an intermediate level of understanding of the industry, business, internal processes and products, and applying this knowledge to incidents as they are reported to determine next steps and make recommendations. 
• Leading the support shifts and managing and mentoring Incident Analysts to help them effectively perform their job.   
• Working with Support Knowledge Managers to build and maintain the team knowledge database. 
• Facilitating routine root cause analysis and problem review meetings and providing recommendations to service owners to improve service availability. 
• Ability to work scheduled shifts including mornings, weekends, and nights on a 24x7 roster basis. 

The Profile:

• 6+ years of experience in IT Support handling emails, incidents, and support calls for technology products (10+ years of experience for Lead Incident Manager). 
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Information Technology or an equivalent qualification 
• 2+ years of experience in the role of Incident Manager and leading a support team. 
• ITIL Foundations certification recommended; higher ITIL certifications will be an added advantage. 
• Superior English language and communication skills - both written and verbal. 
• The ability to articulate technical solutions for both technical and non-technical audiences. 
• Highly motivated, self-directed, and responsible contributor. 
• Ability to direct cross-functional resources through incident closure with proper RCA and through the problem management lifecycle. 
• Must be able to understand and determine the right course of action based on the nature and criticality of the issue. 
• Proven ability to prioritize according to level of urgency. 
• Knowledge of IT Service Management practices and working experience in Incident Management Systems such as ServiceNow. 

• Technical Knowledge And Experience In:

• Windows/Linux Environments

• SQL, Active Directory, Scripting, etc. 
• Network troubleshooting knowledge including LAN/WAN, DHCP, TCP/IP, Firewalls, and Routing 

• Aws/Azure

• Monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, New Relic, DataDog, Nagios and Splunk 

Benefits:

• Us Dollar-Linked Compensation

• Performance-Based Annual Bonus

• Performance rewards and recognition    
• Agile Benefits - special allowances for Health, Wellness & Academic purposes    

• Paid Birthday Leave

• Team Engagement Allowance

• Comprehensive Health & Life Insurance Cover - extendable to parents and in-laws    
• Overseas travel opportunities and exposure to client environments    

• Hybrid Work Arrangement

Sysco LABS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.