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About You
The Network Operations Center (NOC) Analyst is an active participant in incident and problem management for more than 6,000 managed WAN interfaces and managed security sites with circuits varying in size from T1’s to DS3, which employ technologies such as AVPN, ADI, MPLS, Multilink T1s, Ethernet, Cellular and Broadband. The role relies heavily on knowledge and understanding of monitoring and ticketing platforms to effectively troubleshoot and resolve issues.
What you'll do and how you'll make an impact:
- Own, triage, and resolve customer network (WAN/LAN) related trouble tickets to successful completion
- Detection, tracking, and restoration of customer’s network connectivity via their data circuits and/or equipment
- Remotely troubleshoot and configure WAN equipment, including routers, firewalls, switches, and load balancers from various vendors
- Engage, escalate, and work with carriers and other 3rd parties when needed as part of service restoral
- Participate in incident command bridges, hypercare, and major incidents when required
- Understand and use network monitoring tools such as Zenoss or Logic Monitor to assist in troubleshooting or analyzing network issues and performance
- Converse with technical and non-technical contacts depending on the situation.
- Perform effective ticket management including but not limited to queue management, timely ticket documentation, proper hand-off to other analysts, teams, 3rd parties, etc., communications to customers, ticket resolution
- Adhere to established Service Level Objectives and/or Service Level Agreements
- Work both autonomously and also as part of a team, assisting, when necessary, on identifying and diagnosing issues
What we're looking for:
- Minimum of two (2) years of WAN/LAN implementation and support/troubleshooting experience
- Well-versed in TCP/IP protocols and able to troubleshoot issues remotely
- Demonstrable experience with routing and troubleshooting routing issues with BGP, IGRP, RIP, and OSPF
- Must be knowledgeable in NAT, access lists, policy-based mapping, traffic shaping, and priority queuing
- Must have supported data networks and telecommunications functions in mid-size enterprises, including VPN, ADI, MPLS, Ethernet, Cellular, Broadband, Wireless (WWAN), Multilink T1s
- Must have experience in command line configuration using two or more of the following product lines: Cisco, SonicWall, Juniper, ADTRAN, Meracki, Fortinet, or other relevant technologies
- Knowledgeable with DNS, DHCP, VRRP, HSRP, VLANs, and Inter-VLAN routing.
- Knowledge of network monitoring & traffic capturing tools (e.g., Wireshark, Zenoss, Logic Monitor)
- Must be at least minimally familiar with security-related terms, and technologies, encryption, authentication, IPsec, VPN tunnels including GRE, and controlling traffic
- VoIP knowledge and experience is a plus
- Ability to interact, communicate, and collaborate with internal/external customers, service providers, and field technicians
- Understanding of the OSI Model, SD-WAN, Transport, and TCP/IP
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