About the Role
This role is responsible for leading end-to-end IT incident and problem management practices, ensuring timely service restoration, effective major incident response, thorough root cause analysis, and continuous improvement of ITIL-aligned processes.
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end lifecycle for major incidents, including coordination, escalation, communication, resolution, and closure.
- Facilitate major incident bridges with technical teams, vendors, and business stakeholders to restore service quickly and minimize business impact.
- Own post-incident reviews, root cause analysis, and corrective action tracking to reduce repeat incidents.
- Manage and mature the problem management process, including recurring issue identification, problem backlog governance, and known error tracking.
- Support production readiness assessments for material releases by reviewing operational risks, supportability, monitoring, rollback planning, communication readiness, and incident response preparedness.
- Partner with engineering and application teams to identify recurring operational gaps and help mature practices that improve reliability, supportability, and service resilience.
- Produce incident and problem management metrics, including MTTR, SLA performance, incident trends, recurrence rates, and action closure status.
- Partner with application, infrastructure, cloud, service desk, cybersecurity, vendor, and business teams to improve service reliability and operational accountability.
- Maintain and improve incident management procedures, escalation paths, communication templates, runbooks, and governance practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent work experience is required.
- 5+ years of experience in IT operations, service management, incident management, or problem management is required.
- Proven experience leading major incidents in a 24x7 or high-availability enterprise environment is required.
- Strong working knowledge of ITIL incident, problem, change, and service management practices is required.
- Experience with ITSM platforms such as ServiceNow, Remedy, Jira Service Management, or similar tools is required.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure, application, cloud, network, and cybersecurity environments is required.
- Demonstrated experience facilitating post-incident reviews, root cause analysis, corrective action tracking, and problem remediation is required.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate clearly with technical teams, vendors, business stakeholders, and senior leaders, are required.
- Strong crisis management, prioritization, facilitation, and decision-making skills are required.
- Ability to remain calm, organized, and outcomes-focused during high-pressure service disruption events is required.
- Fluent communication skills in English are required.
Skills
- ITIL incident management
- ITIL problem management
- ITIL change management
- ITIL service management
- ServiceNow
- Remedy
- Jira Service Management
- Infrastructure
- Application
- Cloud
- Network
- Cybersecurity
- Crisis management
- Prioritization
- Facilitation
- Decision-making
- Azure
- AWS
- Hybrid infrastructure
- Modern monitoring tools
- Automation tools
- Bilingual skills in French (asset)
Location
- Toronto
- Vancouver
- Montreal
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 5+ years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or Computer Science
- Equivalent work experience
Salary/Compensations
- $100,000 - $110,000 CAD annually
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package
- Excellent health, dental and insurance benefits
- Generous vacation time
- Fitness benefit
- Parental leave top-up options
- Matching contributions to our retirement program
- Learning & development opportunities
- Education assistance program
About the Company
- Aviso is a leading wealth management and investment services provider for the Canadian financial industry.
- Approximately $145 billion in total assets under administration and management.
- Over 1,000 employees.
- Building a comprehensive, technology-enabled, client-centric wealth services ecosystem.
- Trusted partner for nearly all credit unions across Canada, as well as a wide range of portfolio managers, investment dealers, insurance and trust companies, and introducing brokers.
- Investment dealer and mutual fund dealer and insurance services support thousands of investment advisors.
- Asset manager, NEI Investments, specializes in investing responsibly.
- Online brokerage, Qtrade Direct Investing®, empowers self-directed investors.
- Fully automated investing service, Qtrade Guided Portfolios®, serves investors who prefer a hands-off approach.
- Aviso Correspondent Partners provides custodial and carrying broker services.
- Offices in Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal.
- Backed by the collective strength of our owners: the credit union Centrals, Co-operators/CUMIS, and Desjardins.
- Powering businesses that empower investors.
Equal Opportunity
- Aviso welcomes and encourages applications from all qualified individuals including persons with disabilities.
- If you require an accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs in all stages of the hiring process.
- We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.
- No recruiters or agencies, please.
