Senior Incident Manager

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.

If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.

We are seeking a Senior Incident Manager to lead critical incident response across our AI data center infrastructure. This role is responsible for coordinating rapid resolution of service-impacting events, improving operational resilience, and driving incident management best practices across infrastructure, networking, platform engineering, and data center operations.

Role Overview

The Senior Incident Manager is responsible for leading the end-to-end lifecycle of operational incidents impacting AI infrastructure and data center services. This individual acts as the central command point during major incidents, ensuring rapid triage, cross-team coordination, effective communication, and structured post-incident analysis.

This role requires deep operational expertise in high-availability infrastructure, large-scale GPU clusters, networking, and cloud platforms , along with strong leadership and communication skills.

What You’ll Do

Incident Leadership

Lead the response to critical (SEV-1 / SEV-2) incidents impacting AI infrastructure, GPU clusters, networking, storage, and data center operations.

Serve as the Incident Commander during major outages, coordinating engineering, networking, facilities, and vendor teams.

Act as the liaison between leadership and external teams during incidents / post-incidents to provide updates and status summaries.

Establish clear incident timelines, triage actions, and resolution plans.

Incident Management Operations

Own the incident response lifecycle including:

Assisting Technical Triage

Escalation

Coordination

Resolution Post-incident review

Ensure timely and accurate communication with internal stakeholders and leadership.

Maintain incident response documentation and operational playbooks.

Conduct analysis on incidents and identify patterns / trends for improvement in response and systems reliability.

Work in an On-Call Rotation to respond to, lead, and coordinate incidents

Cross-Functional Coordination

Work closely with: