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Major Incident Management (f/m/d)
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AT A GLANCE
Mission ControlFull TimeEmployee / Full-Time
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Who is Sonar? Sonar enables organizations to ship agentic code with confidence. Code creation is abundant, but confidence is scarce. Our core platform, SonarQube, verifies over 750 billion lines of code every day, delivering agentic verification and governance for all code. Trust
About the role
Who is Sonar?
Sonar enables organizations to ship agentic code with confidence. Code creation is abundant, but confidence is scarce. Our core platform, SonarQube, verifies over 750 billion lines of code every day, delivering agentic verification and governance for all code. Trusted by more than 7 million developers and 75% of the Fortune 100, including teams at Nvidia, ServiceNow, Booking.com, Goldman Sachs, AstraZeneca, and Ford Motor Company, Sonar enables organizations to reduce outages, improve security, and lower the cost and risk of agentic software development.
Founded in Geneva and now headquartered in Austin, Texas, Sonar has a global team working across offices and hubs, including Silicon Valley, London, Bochum, Barcelona, Singapore, Tokyo, and the Washington, D.C. area. At Sonar, we’re enabling enterprises to build agentic software factories that can move quickly while maintaining the control, consistency and evidence required to ship with confidence.
The impact you can have
As Manager of Major Incident Management, you will own how Sonar prevents, responds to, and learns from incidents across its critical systems. You will drive the Incident Management, Change Management, and Problem Management programs through a data-driven, risk-based approach — ensuring that prioritization is guided by measurable impact rather than reactive urgency. By building clear operational health metrics and delivering consistent visibility into service reliability, change risk, and systemic patterns, you will give leadership the insight they need to make confident decisions and you will give your team the clarity they need to focus on what matters most.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Incident, Change, and Problem Management programs end-to-end, applying a risk-based framework to prioritize efforts across the company where they reduce the most organizational risk
- Define, maintain, and report on operational health metrics that provide clear, ongoing visibility into service availability, incident trends, change success rates, and residual risk
- Deliver regular operational reporting to leadership, surfacing systemic patterns, unresolved follow-ups, and areas of elevated risk with clear recommendations
- Coach and develop a team of Major Incident Managers, setting clear expectations for structured incident command, stakeholder communication, and post-incident follow-through
- Own the Post-Incident Review process, ensuring blameless, high-quality analysis that turns findings into prioritized problem records and measurable improvements
- Own and continuously improve the Change Management process, balancing delivery speed with risk reduction through clear classification, approval, and review standards
- Partner with Engineering, Product, Security, and Mission Control to align on risk appetite, reduce time to mitigation, and ensure change governance supports the product roadmap
- Use incident, problem, and change data to identify recurring failures, weak controls, and systemic causes — driving prioritization of corrective actions based on strategic impact
Benefits
- Pension Scheme: 1st Pillar (Unterstützungskasse): Automatic, financed by Sonar, 3% of gross salary, an additional benefit in addition to your salary.
- Pension Scheme:2nd Pillar (bAV): Voluntary, 15% contribution by Sonar from social security savings.
- We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations with 28 PTO days for our employees based out of the Geneva region, plus additional days based on seniority and circumstances.
- Sonar recognizes holidays on working calendar days. If the holiday date occurs on a Saturday, we will recognize the day on the preceding Friday. If the holiday date occurs on a Sunday, we will recognize the day on the following Monday.
- Public transport reimbursement of 60% for annual subscription.
- Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries representing 35+ unique nationalities.
- We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.
- PTO
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