Remote Technical Service Operations Lead; TSO Lead

Position: Remote Technical Service Operations Lead (TSO Lead)
Location: Niagara Falls

ABOUT YOU
We are looking for a  Technical Service Operations Lead (TSO Lead)  who is  operationally driven, collaborative, analytical, and a strong communicator  to join our  Global Technical Operations (GTO)  team. The best candidate will be someone who thrives in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, and exceptionally dynamic setting and is excited to  help coordinate incident response alongside cross-functional teams, identify trends and patterns in production issues, improve how we communicate with partners during incidents, and drive continuous improvement through post-incident reviews.

Strong  incident management experience, ITIL knowledge, and observability/monitoring expertise  are essential, along with experience in  technical operations, SRE, or NOC environments supporting high-availability platforms (payments, e-commerce, SaaS, or gaming).  The ability to  communicate clearly and effectively in English - both written and verbal - across technical and executive audiences  will be key to your success in this role.

If you’re passionate about  driving operational excellence and platform reliability at scale  and love  ensuring the reliability and uptime of commerce and payment solutions that game developers and players depend on,  we would love to hear from you!

ABOUT US
Xsolla is a global commerce company with robust tools and services to help developers solve the inherent challenges of the video game industry. From indie to AAA, companies partner with Xsolla to help them fund, distribute, market, and monetize their games. Grounded in the belief in the future of video games, Xsolla is resolute in the mission to bring opportunities together, and continually make new resources available to creators.

Headquartered and incorporated in Los Angeles, California, Xsolla operates as the merchant of record and has helped over 1,500+ game developers to reach more players and grow their businesses around the world. With more paths to profits and ways to win, developers have all the things needed to enjoy the game.

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Responsibilities:

Serve as Incident Commander for major incidents - coordinating cross-functional response teams, driving investigation, making escalation decisions, and ensuring incidents are resolved within SLA targets.

Own all incident communications: draft and send clear, timely updates to senior leadership, Customer Success, and partner/customer contacts throughout the incident lifecycle, and manage customer-facing status page updates ().

Facilitate blameless Post-Incident Reviews (PIRs) for major incidents - leading root cause identification, assigning corrective actions with clear owners and deadlines, and tracking them to closure.

During non-incident periods, proactively analyze incident trends, recurring issues, and production bugs - identify patterns, create Problem tickets, and report findings and recommendations to product and engineering teams on a regular cadence.

Enforce the incident management framework across the organization, including the severity model, priority matrix, SLA targets, escalation procedures, and deployment readiness gates.

Oversee and mentor the Operations Engineer on your shift - coaching on triage, investigation, runbook execution, and documentation quality while conducting regular knowledge transfer sessions to build depth across the service portfolio.

Produce shift handoff reports and deliver regular operational reporting: incident trends, KPI performance (MTTD, MTTA, MTTR), SLA adherence, proactive detection rate, and repeat incident analysis.

Audit service catalogue completeness on a regular cadence and govern JIRA Service Management workflows for incident, PIR, and problem management.

Cover for the Operations Engineer role during absences, breaks, or surge incidents. Participate in weekend on-call rotation for major incidents.

Qualifications & Skills:

6+ years of experience in incident management, SRE, NOC leadership, or technical operations in a production environment supporting high-availability, high-transaction systems (payments, e-commerce, SaaS, or gaming platforms preferred).

Proven incident management experience - coordinating multi-team response, making real-time escalation decisions, and communicating with executive stakeholders under pressure.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English - ability to draft clear, concise executive updates at 3 AM under pressure, facilitate blameless PIRs, present operational metrics to senior…