Major Incident Manager

Dealer.com

Dealer.com

Atlanta, GA, USA
USD 65,500-98,300 / year
Posted on May 9, 2025

Company

Cox Automotive - USA

Job Family Group

Information Technology

Job Profile

Business Analyst II

Management Level

Individual Contributor

Flexible Work Option

Hybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

Travel %

No

Work Shift

Day

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary of $65,500.00 - $98,300.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Job Description

The Major Incident Manager (MIM) leverages industry best practices and tools to handle all high and critical business-impacting technology events, ensuring they are resolved efficiently. This role supports the goals of quality, stability, and security for Enterprise Operations' services across Cox Automotive.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage high, critical, and limited business-impacting events to resolution, ensuring alignment with the quality and stability objectives for Cox Automotive Technology's services across all Cox Automotive products.
  • Play a pivotal role in process management including service strategy setting, service design, transitioning services to production, operations, and continuous improvement.
  • Coordinate with infrastructure and delivery teams to mitigate unplanned events or service interruptions, assess scope and impact, assign priority ratings, and lead efforts to reduce production impacts.
  • Engage leadership and provide timely updates.
  • Utilize a blend of analytical, technical, and communication skills effectively in a team-based setting.
  • Communicate the customer/business/technical impact, status, and resolution to internal stakeholders in real-time.
  • Ensure timely and accurate documentation of incident timelines, scopes/impacts, resolutions, and other quantifiable properties for record-keeping and post-incident reviews.
  • Oversee the Incident Management Process governance.
  • Provide governance and administrative support for Leadership paging and Incident Communication tools.
  • Participate in a scheduled work shift and rotating on-call rotation to maintain 24x7x365 coverage.
  • Manage the inventory of organizational knowledge assets.

Qualifications:

Minimum:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline and 2 years’ experience in Information Technology Operations performing IT Service Management activities
    • The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and up to 2 years’ experience; or 6 years’ experience Information Technology Operations performing IT Service Management activities
  • Experience managing major incident processes in complex environments, inclusive of drafting and distributing wide-scale executive summary communications regarding major incidents
  • Experience leading high-priority, cross-functional technical bridges and coordinating incident response across infrastructure, application, and support teams
  • Hands-on experience using incident management and communication tools, such as ServiceNow, PagerDuty, or equivalent platforms

Preferred:

  • Proven experience managing comprehensive major incident processes and tools.
  • Proven experience overseeing major technology events in complex settings, including drafting and distributing broad executive summary communications.
  • Experience conducting, contributing, or participating in Post-Incident Reviews and maintaining accurate, detailed incident documentation (impact, resolution, timeline, lessons learned)
  • ITIL v4 Foundations Certification.
  • Experience in Organizational Communications.

Drug Testing

To be employed in this role, you’ll need to clear a pre-employment drug test. Cox Automotive does not currently administer a pre-employment drug test for marijuana for this position. However, we are a drug-free workplace, so the possession, use or being under the influence of drugs illegal under federal or state law during work hours, on company property and/or in company vehicles is prohibited.

Benefits

The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.

About Us

Through groundbreaking technology and a commitment to stellar experiences for drivers and dealers alike, Cox Automotive employees are transforming the way the world buys, owns, sells – or simply uses – cars. Cox Automotive employees get to work on iconic consumer brands like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book and industry-leading dealer-facing companies like vAuto and Manheim, all while enjoying the people-centered atmosphere that is central to our life at Cox. Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page. Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer – All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual’s age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.

Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship.