Production Support Engineering Manager

We’re building a relationship-oriented bank for the modern world. We need talented, passionate professionals who are dedicated to doing what’s right for our clients.

At CIBC, we embrace your strengths and your ambitions, so you are empowered  team members have what they need to make a meaningful impact and are truly valued for who they are and what they contribute.

To learn more about CIBC, please visit CIBC.comWhat You’ll Be Doing As a Production Support Engineering Manager at CIBC, you lead a team accountable for the stability, resilience, and operational support of production technology services. You manage incident, problem, and change activities, support major incident coordination, and help drive root-cause resolution through effective monitoring, automation, and disciplined support practices. Working closely with Technology, Business, Risk, Compliance, and Audit partners, you help manage risk, meet governance requirements, and uphold service standards.

As a people leader, you coach and develop talent, build team effectiveness, and foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. You’ll have the flexibility to manage your work activities within a hybrid work arrangement where you’ll spend 2 days per week on-site at our Chicago location, while other days may be remote.

Occasional travel required

How You’ll Succeed Production Service Stability & Support Execution:
Lead the day-to-day support of production technology services to maintain stability, availability, and performance. Implement and uphold support standards, monitoring practices, and operational procedures that improve service reliability and recoverability.

Incident, Problem & Change Management:
Manage production incidents, problems, and change activities to minimize business impact and restore service quickly. Coordinate major incident response, support communications, and drive follow-through on root-cause analysis and corrective actions to reduce repeat issues.

Operational & Business Insight:
Apply knowledge of production operations, business processes, and technology dependencies to assess impact, prioritize issues, and improve service supportability. Identify trends and opportunities to strengthen operational effectiveness.

Risk, Controls & Governance Support:
Ensure production support activities align to operational risk, control, and governance requirements. Partner with Risk, Compliance, and Audit teams to maintain evidence, address findings, and support adherence to policies and standards.

Stakeholder Management & People Leadership:
Provide clear updates on service health, incidents, risks, and improvement activities to stakeholders and leaders. Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team while fostering accountability, collaboration, and a culture of continuous improvement.

Align with Enterprise Technology colleagues – Partner with Enterprise Technology teams to maintain strategic alignment between projects and initiatives. Colleagues on the Technology management teams to ensure shared accountability for overall success in achieving the Technology strategy and objectives

Who you areYou can demonstrate experience in. Production Support and Incident Management:
Experience leading team response to production incidents and supporting timely restoration of service, strong knowledge of IT service management disciplines, including incident, problem, change, and major incident processes along with experience in production support readiness practices, including on-call models, runbooks, support documentation, and recovery procedures is essential.

You possess 8-12 years of related experience or Combination of…