Hybrid Lead, IT Service Operations

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About the role

  • Service Management professional providing technical application support and Cloud Infrastructure Management for S&P Global's Markets group. Leading service excellence culture and major incident management.

Responsibilities

  • Provide end-to-end ownership of Incident, Problem, Change, and Business Continuity processes, ensuring predictable, high-quality service delivery to internal and external customers.
  • Operate as the primary escalation authority for complex, high-impact production issues, coordinating across engineering, cloud, security, and vendor teams.
  • Partner closely with Product, Architecture, and Delivery teams to ensure operational readiness for releases, embedding reliability, supportability, and resilience early in the design lifecycle.
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives across monitoring, alerting, reporting, automation, and operational maturity.
  • Embed AI/ML-driven operations (AIOps) to enhance anomaly detection, predictive alerting, intelligent noise reduction, and proactive incident prevention.
  • Influence and support technology governance, risk management, compliance, and audit activities related to service reliability.
  • Ensure 24x7 proactive monitoring and management of business-critical platforms, restoring service rapidly and minimizing customer impact.
  • Define and enforce incident severity models, ensuring accurate impact assessment, prioritization, and stakeholder communication.
  • Maintain end-to-end ownership of incidents, including those requiring third-line engineering or formal change execution.
  • Provide clear, consistent, and executive-level communication during incidents, outages, and service degradation.
  • Oversee application support spanning infrastructure, data remediation, user queries, education, and deep-dive incident investigations.
  • Drive observability across events, alerts, batch jobs, capacity planning, and performance KPIs, translating insights into actionable change.
  • Collaborate with functional and technical teams to ensure future deliverables (functional and non-functional) are operationally viable.
  • Champion knowledge management, ensuring high-quality runbooks, SOPs, and operational documentation in Confluence.
  • Deliver against SLA, OLA, and SLO commitments, with transparent reporting and corrective actions.
  • Leverage AIOps and reliability analytics to identify trends, systemic risks, and optimization opportunities at scale.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
  • Ideally 10-12+ years of progressive experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Technology Operations, including leadership responsibility.
  • Proven experience designing and operating high-availability, disaster-recovery, and incident response capabilities across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Strong understanding of ITIL-aligned Service Management processes and enterprise operational governance.
  • Deep expertise with observability platforms such as Splunk, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or equivalent.
  • Strong database expertise (Oracle / PostgreSQL), including advanced SQL tuning, performance optimization, and operational troubleshooting.
  • Demonstrated experience leading post-incident reviews and driving preventative engineering outcomes.
  • Excellent decision-making and leadership capabilities under high-pressure, executive-visible incidents.
  • Strong knowledge of Linux and Windows operating systems, automation, and scripting (Python preferred).
  • Solid understanding of SDLC, Agile methodologies, defect triage, and engineering collaboration models.
  • Prior experience in Financial Services and/or S&P Global technology platforms is highly desirable.
  • Right to Work Requirements: This role is limited to persons with the indefinite right to work in the United States.

Benefits

  • Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
  • Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
  • Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
  • Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
  • Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in-class benefits for families.
  • Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

Job title

Lead, IT Service Operations

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$140,000 - $150,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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