Darin Dalgarski

Service Operations Team Lead | Incident Management

Salaire / Taux journalier

Plovdiv, Bulgarie

Freelance

Expertises

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À propos

Introduction

Service Operations Team Lead with 7+ years specializing in incident/problem management and production reliability for high-stakes gaming platforms. Led end-to-end incident lifecycles at Aristocrat and DraftKings, orchestrating cross-functional teams to resolve critical P0/P1 incidents while maintaining service stability. Expert in Jira Service Management automation, post-mortem analysis, and building resilient SRE frameworks that drive operational excellence.

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Expérience de travail

Service Operations Team Lead

Aristocrat Interactive

juin 2022 - déc. 2025

3 ans 7 mois

47521 Bulgaria, Forlì-Cesena, Italie

Owns the end-to-end incident lifecycle. Assesses and classifies production incidents based on impact and urgency. Leads and coordinates cross-functional technical teams to drive timely incident resolution. Manages customer-facing communication, ensuring transparency and professionalism. Conducts comprehensive post-mortem investigations to identify root causes and implement corrective actions. Provides operational support across business units to maintain service reliability. Actively contributes to new product releases, ensuring production readiness and resilience. Maintains and improves production environment availability and stability, driving continuous improvement initiatives. Produces detailed infrastructure capacity reports, identifying top resource consumers and process inefficiencies. Monitors team progress, proactively prioritizes and drives tickets to completion. Ensures adherence to best practices and standards, mentoring junior team members and defining Incident & Problem Management concepts. Proposes pragmatic solutions aligned with team capabilities and organizational scope. Designs and improves incident and problem management tools, processes, and frameworks. Confidently facilitates team meetings and operational discussions, fostering alignment and accountability. Provides training sessions on Incident & Problem Management processes to strengthen organizational capability. Expert in Jira Service Management: creating and managing projects, building automation workflows to optimize team efficiency, and developing custom dashboards and reports for management visibility.

DraftKings Inc.

janv. 2020 - juil. 2022

2 ans 7 mois

Plovdiv, Bulgarie

Lead Incident and Problem Management Engineer

janv. 2022 - juil. 2022

7 mois

Plovdiv, Bulgarie

End to End responsibility for the P0/1/2/3 incident lifecycle management Classifying production incident impact and urgency Orchestrate technical teams for incident resolution Manage customer facing communication Conduct full scale post-mortem investigation Providing operational support to the different company units Be involved in new product releases to ensure optimal production readiness Managing and improving production environment availability and stability Producing report analysis of the infrastructure capacity, top polluters, and process gaps. Aware of the team's progress and proactively prioritizes tickets in order to move tickets to completion. Ensures DK best practices and standards are met by junior team members, Helps define Incident & Problem Management concepts. Proposes solutions acceptable in scope for the situation and ability of the team. Helps create basic Incident & Problem management tools and processes. Comfortable guiding meetings and discussions related to team operations. Provide trainings on Incident & Problem Management processes

Senior Incident and Problem Management Engineer

janv. 2021 - janv. 2022

1 an 1 mois

Plovdiv, Bulgarie

End to End responsibility for the P0/1/2/3 incident lifecycle management Classifying production incident impact and urgency Orchestrate technical teams for incident resolution Manage customer facing communication Conduct full scale post-mortem investigation Providing operational support to the different company units Be involved in new product releases to ensure optimal production readiness Managing and improving production environment availability and stability Producing report analysis of the infrastructure capacity, top polluters and process gaps

Senior Monitoring Lead SRE Operations

janv. 2020 - janv. 2021

1 an 1 mois

Plovdiv, Bulgarie

Providing surveillance and alarm reporting. Monitoring server systems and networks. Troubleshooting, resolution and escalating incoming alerts. Incidents flow management. Managing the team on shift.

Network Operations Specialist

SBTech

janv. 2018 - janv. 2020

2 ans 1 mois

Plovdiv, Bulgarie

Monitoring of the entire company infrastructure, applications and services. Maintaining the production environment stable & healthy by troubleshooting, resolution and escalating incoming alerts, events and incidents.

Technical Support Agent

Sixty K Ltd (60K)

sept. 2015 - mai 2017

1 an 9 mois

Plovdiv, Bulgarie

Service calls for Technical support with English on ADSL 2+ users,Fibre Broadband (FTTC) In one of the biggest ISP in UK "Sky"


Formation

Coventry University

Bachelor's degree, Ethical Hacking and Cyber Security

2017 - 2018

2 ans

Software University

2014 - 2014

1 an

Professional High School of Home Appliances

2010 - 2014

5 ans


Licences et certifications

ITIL® Foundation

Délivré le : déc. 2025

Certifié par PeopleCert

Customer Service Foundations

Délivré le : avr. 2022

Certifié par LinkedIn

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