Major Incident Manager

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

SSBI (T5)

Job Family:

Administration

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Communication, Incident Management, Major Incident Management, ServiceNow Platform Certifications: None Experience: 5 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required: No

Job Description:

GDIT has been supporting the Indian Health Service (IHS) mission for 20+ years; working with the agency to provide integral services to raise health access and availability to 2.6 million American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The Major Incident Manager will be part of modernizing the EHR platform to enable better data access, patient experience, and quality of care for 567 tribes, 37 states and over 600 medical facilities.

As an Major Incident Manager supporting the IHS EHRM program, you will be responsible for leading Major Issue Management and supporting triage, incident, problem, and change management activities within the Sustainment Operations Incident and Delivery pillar.

***The shift hours for this role are 7:00AM-7:00PM with:

5 days working, 5 days off or:

4 days working, 5 days off or:

5 days working, 4 days off.

HOW A MAJOR INCIDENT MANAGER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

• Play a critical role in maintaining the stability, availability, and usability of the PATH (Oracle Cerner Millennium) environment by leading the response to high-severity incidents and coordinating major issue resolution.

• Ensure timely, well-coordinated incident management, reduce downtime, protect data integrity, and help clinicians and staff focus on delivering safe, high-quality patient care.

• Work non-standard hours, including evenings, weekends, and holidays, as directed by management and based on client needs and incident response requirements.

• Work closely with application, engineering, infrastructure, vendor, and operational teams.

• Provide 24/7 coordination for major incidents (SEV1–SEV3) affecting critical systems such as EMR, clinical workflows, financial systems, and imaging platforms.

• Assess incident criticality at engagement and throughout the lifecycle; oversee monitoring, prioritization, escalation, and resolution against defined SLAs.

• Engage and coordinate cross-functional technical resources as necessary, ensuring all steps and activities required for escalation are executed efficiently.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for major incidents, providing timely, professional communication to clients, internal stakeholders, and executive leadership.

• Ensure accurate, comprehensive documentation in ServiceNow, including Service Requests, Incident Reports, and associated Change Requests, capturing timelines, actions, and outcomes.

• Lead root cause analysis efforts, document findings and corrective actions across vendors, and deliver clear summaries to leadership.

• Analyze incident data to identify trends and contribute to process improvement, problem management, and preventive strategies.

• Support triage, incident management, problem management, and change management when not directly engaged in a major incident, helping to strengthen reliability and resiliency.

• Mentor team members, support incident response drills, and maintain operational readiness for potential outage.

• Help strengthen customer trust, support contract performance, and enable mission success across the healthcare environment.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Minimum 5 years of experience in incident management, preferably in healthcare IT or large, complex IT environments.

• Strong knowledge of ITIL practices (incident and problem management) and IT troubleshooting in mission-critical systems.

• Experience with PATH (Oracle Cerner Millennium) or similar EHR platforms and enterprise incident management tools (ServiceNow; xMatters preferred).

• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-team incident response and make effective decisions under high pressure.

• Training/education/experience in task coordination and functional knowledge of IT project management concepts and tools.

• Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and work irregular hours to support 24/7 operations.

• Ability to travel up to 25% of the year, if needed.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• 5+ years of relevant incident management or operations leadership experience.

• Experience supporting federal contract programs and working with government stakeholders.

• Experience with healthcare systems and standards such as HL7, PACS, and EMR platforms.

• Strong task and incident management skills, with excellent organizational and time management capabilities.

• Ability to manage frequently changing priorities of competing importance in a fast-paced environment.

• Ability to communicate…