Apple

Senior Incident Manager

Apple$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 6+ years in incident management, site reliability engineering, or technical program management.
  • Experience in building or scaling incident management programs in production environments.
  • Ability to define and influence operational metrics (e.g., MTTD, MTTR).
  • Experience conducting postmortems and utilizing root cause analysis for improvements.
  • Strong collaboration skills with engineering and executive teams.
  • Excellent communication skills, especially under pressure.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and improve the incident response program for Apple Wallet.
  • Drive the incident management process from start to finish.
  • Mobilize the right resources quickly in response to incidents.
  • Communicate decisively and clearly during incidents.
  • Own the post-incident lifecycle to ensure learnings are captured and implemented.
  • Refine incident response practices based on feedback and observations.
  • Foster collaboration across teams to enhance incident management strategies.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional growth and development.
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and tools.
  • Collaborative team environment focused on user experience.
  • Impactful role in a leading tech company.
  • Possibility to lead initiatives that drive real improvements.
Full Job Description
Are you energized by leading high-stakes operational response? Do you thrive in fast-moving, cross-functional environments where clarity and decisiveness directly protect the user experience? Are you the person others turn to in a crisis to bring order, drive resolution, and keep stakeholders informed? If so, you might be the right fit for a Senior Incident Manager role for Apple Wallet.\n\nThis role focuses on leading and improving the incident response program for Apple Wallet, ensuring that when issues arise, our response is fast, coordinated, and centered on the user experience. As a senior individual contributor, you'll set direction for incident management. It's a hands-on, high-accountability role that requires technical fluency, operational rigor, and strong leadership presence under pressure, with exceptional communication skills.\n\nAs a Senior Incident Manager, you'll drive the incident management process end-to-end - ensuring it's executed consistently and accurately, while continuously improving it. You'll lead incident response, mobilize the right people quickly, and drive clear, decisive communication. Your technical fluency lets you follow the engineering conversation in real time, ask the sharper question, and translate complexity into clarity for stakeholders. You'll also own the post-incident lifecycle - making sure every incident produces real learnings, durable observations, and clear ownership in partnership with Problem Management. Beyond execution, you'll continuously sharpen the practice itself: refining how we prioritize, communicate, respond, and surfacing cross-functional feedback on where we can be better. This role depends on strong written and verbal communication, sound judgment under pressure, and a teamwork-first instinct.

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. 6+ years of experience in incident management, site reliability engineering, or technical program management for production services. Demonstrated experience building or scaling an incident management program in a production or customer-facing environment. Proven ability to define, measure, and influence operational metrics (MTTD, MTTR, etc.). Experience facilitating postmortems and applying root cause analysis frameworks to drive durable improvements. Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, particularly with engineering, product, and executive stakeholders. Excellent communication skills under pressure, with the ability to drive clarity and urgency. Experience with incident tooling (e.g., PagerDuty, Slack automation, observability platforms).

Hands-on engineering background (SRE, DevOps, or software engineering), particularly in payments or financial services. Experience leading incident programs across global teams or regulated environments. Background in high-availability systems, payments infrastructure, or customer-critical services. Experience integrating incident workflows with observability platforms (e.g., Datadog). Experience driving change in cross-functional or matrixed organizations.

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

Apple Careers

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Size
154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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