The role is responsible for leading the end-to-end management of incidents across a complex IT environment, ensuring the rapid restoration of critical services and minimisation of business impact.
Acting as the central coordination point, the position oversees all high-priority (P1/P2) incidents, directing cross-functional technical teams and vendors to drive timely resolution while maintaining a clear and structured response approach.
Operating within a 24/7 workplace, the role provides on-call leadership, taking ownership of incident response outside standard business hours and ensuring continuity of Incident Management coverage.
It ensures incidents affecting multiple systems or service domains are managed in a coordinated and controlled manner, with strong governance aligned to ITIL service management practices.
The position is accountable for delivering clear, timely, and consistent communication to stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership, and serves as the single point of contact during major incidents.
It manages escalation pathways, ensures appropriate visibility based on business impact, and maintains accurate documentation of incident activities, decisions, and outcomes.
In addition to real-time incident management, the role drives continuous improvement through leading post-incident reviews, identifying root causes, and ensuring corrective actions are implemented.
It contributes to broader problem management efforts, analyses incident trends, and supports the uplift of service resilience, response capability, and operational maturity.
The role also supports performance monitoring and reporting, providing insights into incident trends and effectiveness, and contributes to the ongoing refinement of incident management processes to ensure high-quality, effective, and consistent service delivery.
The role is responsible for leading the end-to-end management of incidents across a complex IT environment, ensuring the rapid restoration of critical services and minimisation of business impact.
Acting as the central coordination point, the position oversees all high-priority (P1/P2) incidents, directing cross-functional technical teams and vendors to drive timely resolution while maintaining a clear and structured response approach.
Operating within a 24/7 environment, the role provides on-call leadership, taking ownership of incident response outside standard business hours and ensuring continuity of Incident Management coverage.
It ensures incidents affecting multiple systems or service domains are managed in a coordinated and controlled manner, with solid governance aligned to ITIL service management practices.
The position is accountable for delivering clear, timely, and consistent communication to stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership, and serves as the single point of contact during major incidents.




It manages escalation pathways, ensures appropriate visibility based on business impact, and maintains accurate documentation of incident activities, decisions, and outcomes.
In addition to real-time incident management, the role drives continuous improvement through leading post-incident reviews, identifying root causes, and ensuring corrective actions are implemented.
It contributes to broader problem management efforts, analyses incident trends, and supports the uplift of service resilience, response capability, and operational maturity.
The role also supports performance monitoring and reporting, providing insights into incident trends and effectiveness, and contributes to the ongoing refinement of incident management processes to ensure high-quality, efficient, and consistent service delivery.
The key duties of the position include:
Incident Leadership & Coordination
Take ownership of all assigned major incidents (P1/P2), coordinating investigation, resolution and recovery activities
Lead incident response bridges, directing cross-functional teams (L2-L3 and vendors) to restore services as quickly as possible
Ensure incidents impacting multiple systems or service domains are managed in a coordinated and centralised manner
Participate in a 24/7 on-call roster to ensure continuous Major Incident Management coverage
Act as the designated Major Incident Manager during rostered periods, responding to and leading the management of P1/P2 incidents outside standard business hours (including weekends and public holidays)
Communication & Stakeholder Engagement
Provide clear, timely and consistent updates to stakeholders, including executives, business owners and service teams
Act as the single point of contact during major incidents
Manage escalation pathways and ensure appropriate visibility based on business impact
Incident Governance & Process Management
Drive adherence to Major Incident Management processes and ITSM practices ITSM frameworks (ITIL Incident and Problem Management)
Ensure consistent application of incident prioritisation, severity classification and escalation protocols
Maintain accurate incident records, including timelines, decisions and actions
Resolution Driving & Service Restoration
Coordinate cross-functional teams (Levels 2-3 and vendors) to diagnose and resolve incidents
Assign and track resolution tasks across support teams, actively managing risks, dependencies and blockers to accelerate service restoration




Post Incident Review & Continuous Improvement
Lead post-incident reviews (PIRs) to identify root causes and improvement actions
Ensure outcomes are documented and tracked to completion
Contribute to problem management activities to prevent recurrence
Analyse incident trends and contribute to continuous improvement of service resilience and response capability
Performance & Reporting
Report on major incident performance, including metrics, trends and improvement initiatives
Contribute to development and refinement of incident management processes and procedures
Team Collaboration & Leadership
Provide leadership and direction during high-pressure incident situations
Mentor service management and operational support teams in incident response best practices
Facilitate knowledge sharing across support teams
Promote a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and operational excellence
Support operational readiness reviews and service transition activities
Complying with all Bureau work, health and safety policies and procedures, and taking reasonable care for your own health and safety and that of employees, contractors and visitors who may be affected by your conduct.
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📌 Incident Manager (Melbourne)
🏢 Bureau Of Meteorology
📍 Melbourne