Incident & Problem Mgmt ITIL Specialist

About the role
This is a unique opportunity to join the Process Integration and Management (PIAM) team, in a role that goes beyond standard operations. As a PIAM Asset Management analyst, you’ll be working within a dynamic and supportive ecosystem on a prestigious customer account, supporting critical service processes. 

In this role you will be the operational lead for Major Incident Management and Problem Management, while also maintaining a strong working knowledge and assist in the delivery of key ITIL functions, including Asset Management, Change Management, and Release Management.  

What you'll be doing 

• Preferable experience or understanding of Problem Management and Incident Management 
• Logging and classification of all inbound disruptions, service requests, or user tickets. 
• Prioritizing incidents based on business impact and urgency. 
• Restoring service via fast workarounds or fixes to meet target SLAs. 
• Escalating unresolved tickets smoothly to specialist second-line or third-line support teams. 
• Communicating status updates clearly to affected users and stakeholders during outages. 
• Closing incident files and confirming user satisfaction once normal operation resumes. 
• Identifying the root cause of one or more recurring or high-impact incidents. 
• Conducting systematic root cause analysis (RCA) using methods like the 5 Whys or Pareto analysis. 
• Creating and publishing temporary workarounds for the service desk while permanent fixes are found. 
• Submitting formal change requests for permanent architectural or code corrections. 
• Maintaining a database of known errors and permanent solutions for future reference. 
• Performing trend analysis on historical ticket data to proactively spot latent IT weaknesses. 
• Audits process compliance to ensure IT support teams follow agreed-upon workflows. 
• Manages the process of lifecycle, including design, rollout, and regular structural reviews. 
• Reviews and approves critical process documentation, training materials, and standard templates 
• Govern the Major Incident Management (MIM) framework for high-priority, business-critical outages. 
• Convene Post-Incident Review (PIR) meetings for critical disruptions to initiate Root Cause Analysis (RCA). 
• Mediate cross-functional conflicts regarding ticket ownership, prioritization, and technical accountability. 
• Partner with Change Management to ensure permanent problem fixes are safely deployed to production. 
• Define and monitor Critical Success Factors (CSFs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for both practices. 
• Track operational metrics: Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), SLA breach rates, and first-contact resolution. 
• Track systemic metrics: Incident recurrence rates, proactive problem volume, and open backlog trends. 
• Deliver monthly performance data and risk assessments to IT executives and business stakeholders. 
• Partner with business leaders to deliver services that support company objectives and that are consistent with Winning Together values. 
• Embrace and support Computacenter’s mission and core values.

What you have 

• Minimum of 5 years of experience working in an enterprise IT, service management, or business environment. 
• Strong working knowledge of ITIL processes, including Asset, Change, and Release Management.  
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. 
• ITIL certifications preferred 
• Active U.S. Government security clearance preferred. 
• Ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative team. 
• Good knowledge and experience of SAP, MS Office and MS Teams 
• Strong communication, decision making, pro-active and stakeholder engagement skills   
• Excellent skills in Root Cause Analysis 
• Excellent attention to detail 
• Strategic thinking and tactical execution skills 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously. 
• Can build trust, be assertive when required and shows initiative and enthusiasm 
• Resilience, and able to deal with stressful situations 
• Business and financial acumen with strong analytical skills 
• Demonstrate an understanding of product supply chains 
• Commercially astute 
• Team-oriented working and thinking 

What you can expect

There’s so much more to enjoy about being at Computacenter than just having a rewarding career. In addition to offering competitive compensation plans and long-term career opportunities, we provide an attractive mix of benefit plans to contribute to your good health, future financial security, and peace of mind.

About us

Computacenter is a leading independent technology partner, trusted by large corporate and public sector organizations. We help our world-renowned customers to source, transform, and manage their IT infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling users and their business. We’re a public company quoted on the London FTSE 250 (CCC.L) and employ over 21,000 people worldwide. In the US, we support some of the country’s best-known businesses with regional hubs in San Francisco and Irvine, CA; Norcross, GA; Plano, TX; and New York City; and Integration Centers in Silicon Valley and Atlanta. www.computacenter.com/us