DAZN
Technical Incident Commander
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Department: 61-458 - Technology - Live Operations
Location: UK - Leeds
Description
Why Join DAZN?
DAZN is one of the world’s leading sports streaming platforms, delivering live and on-demand content to millions of fans across the globe. In an always-on environment, service continuity is critical. As a Technical Incident Manager, you’ll be at the forefront of restoring services when issues arise, owning the process of critical incident response across our global tech infrastructure. This is your opportunity to directly influence the availability, performance, and integrity of the product used by millions daily. If you're passionate about rapid troubleshooting, operational excellence, and leading under pressure, this is your arena.
The Role
As a Technical Incident Manager in our Global Live Operations team, you’ll be responsible for managing all critical technical incidents (S1–S3) across DAZN’s platforms and services. This is a hands-on, high-impact role where you’ll lead service restoration efforts, coordinate technical teams, and drive rapid problem resolution while ensuring quality communication with the business. Be part of a 1 in 4 on-call rotation, supporting major live events.
You’ll also be instrumental in operationalising new projects, defining monitoring requirements, and ensuring support readiness. You will act as a central figure for all things incident response—partnering across engineering, operations, support, and vendor teams.
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What You'll Be Doing
- Technically lead the resolution of critical incidents, managing SMEs, technical sub-channels, and service restoration efforts.
- Coordinate with DAZN teams and third-party vendors during incidents via war rooms, Teams channels, and structured communication points.
- Own the integrity of the Major Incident Management process; ensure SLAs are met and processes followed.
- Communicate clear and timely updates to business stakeholders, shielding engineering teams for focused restoration.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship during incidents, recommending improvements in troubleshooting and tooling.
- Partner with Dev, Engineering, and Support teams to manage escalations and ensure platform stability.
- Identify infrastructure, architectural, and process-level improvements to increase uptime and reduce MTTR.
- Operationalise new features, scope monitoring needs, produce runbooks, and assess delivery risks before launch.
What You'll Bring
- Proven experience managing critical (S1–S3) incidents with a strong track record of resolution leadership.
- Strong understanding of ITIL practices, including incident, problem, and change management.
- Ability to lead cross-functional and vendor teams during high-pressure events.
- Experience with incident data analysis: CS tickets, social media signals, error codes, and playback failures.
- Familiarity with customer-impact KPIs such as rebuffering rates, playback failures, and capacity alerts.
- Operations background in a 24/7, 365 support model.
- Hands-on knowledge of Halo, JIRA, APIs, and cloud platforms (ECS, Lambda, cloud-native databases).
- Experience with observability tools like New Relic, Coralogix, or Conviva.
- Demonstrated ability to transition complex projects into live environments, including building monitoring, runbooks, and operational frameworks.
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Benefits
Benefits include access to DAZN, 25 days’ annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years), private medical insurance, life assurance, pension contributions up to 5%, family-friendly community including enhanced parental leave, electric vehicle benefit option, learning and development resources, opportunity for flexible working, and access to our internal speaker series and events.
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