The role involves leading critical incident escalations within the Technical Services organization, providing decisive leadership during high-pressure technical crises, coordinating cross-functional teams, and ensuring effective communication and resolution to maintain customer trust and operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities
Own and lead critical incident escalations, serving as the primary authority and point of contact for technical crises in the EMEA region.
Lead technical bridge calls during critical incidents, coordinating resources and driving resolution with urgency and accountability.
Engage and activate appropriate technical and leadership resources based on the severity and impact of incidents.
Communicate incident status and resolution strategies clearly to all stakeholders, including executive summaries and external messaging.
Act as a strategic partner to account teams during high-impact incidents to ensure technical solutions align with customer business objectives.
Represent the organization during critical customer moments, demonstrating leadership and managing customer sentiment.
Coordinate seamless incident handoffs across global regions to maintain continuous customer confidence and operational momentum.
Assemble and align cross-functional teams to develop and execute resolution strategies during critical incidents.
Analyze high-severity incidents to identify root causes, governance gaps, and process improvements to prevent recurrence.
Enhance organizational readiness by identifying gaps and driving continuous improvements in escalation processes and operational maturity.
Requirements
Extensive experience in Critical Incident Management, Technical Support Leadership, or Escalation Management, preferably within the enterprise storage, SaaS, virtualization, or cloud infrastructure industry.
A proactive desire to jump into chaotic, high-pressure situations and create order, demonstrating a Run to the Fire Mindset.
High Emotional Intelligence (EQ) to manage angry customers, stressed engineers, and demanding executives simultaneously under pressure.
Systematic ability to extract root causes, governance gaps, and behavioral breakdowns from high-severity engagements and convert them into repeatable workflows, risk mitigation actions, and cross-functional process improvements that prevent recurrence.
Proactive identification of early political, technical, and operational risk signals, with the ability to strengthen communication standards and ownership clarity, leading to a measurable reduction in preventable escalations and increased executive confidence.
Possession of technical fluency to assess and validate proposed recovery strategies across enterprise storage, networking, virtualization, and cloud architectures, ensuring alignment between technical remediation and business objectives.
Proven ability to command a room of senior leaders internal and external and deliver difficult messages with professional confidence and clarity, demonstrating executive presence.
Exceptional communication skills, including experience writing high-quality Incident Reports (IRs) and Root Cause Analyses (RCAs) for executive audiences.
Operational proficiency with ServiceNow, JIRA, and Salesforce to track incidents and drive accountability.
Willingness and ability to travel periodically throughout the region to support customers on-site during critical situations.
Flexibility to work outside standard business hours when active crises demand.
Proven ability to establish, strengthen, and leverage senior-level internal partnerships to drive accountability, decision-making, and execution velocity during escalations.
Demonstrated high-severity operational management skills, effectively managing multiple concurrent critical incidents with real-time status visibility, risk tracking, and forward recovery planning.
Exhibiting a disciplined growth mindset with a focus on continuous improvement of escalation processes and operational maturity.
Willingness to work primarily from the Dublin office in compliance with company policies, unless on PTO, work travel, or other approved leave.
Benefits & Perks
In-office environment in Dublin with flexibility for travel and outside business hours
Flexible time off and wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
Support for growth and development
Inclusive and diverse workplace culture
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