Network Operations Center Technician I

GEOGRAPHIC SOLUTIONS INC•Palm Harbor, FL

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Job Summary: The Network Operations Center Technician (NOCT) is responsible for monitoring, managing, and adhering to Geographic Solutions standards for proactive enterprise systems, infrastructure, network, security, and application monitoring. As part of the NOC team, the NOCT will be required to operate and assist in supporting all the Geographic Solutions monitoring and operations based toolsets including but not limited to, SolarWinds® Orion, Zabbix, PureStorage®, Nimble Storage, VMware VirtualCenter, and other point tools. Viable candidates must be willing to work onsite at GSI's headquarters in Palm Harbor, Florida daily on the overnight shift.

Requirements

1-2 years operational experience interfacing with proactive monitoring and reporting tools such as Solarwinds Orion, Zabbix, or other related enterprise based proactive monitoring, event correlation, and reporting tools
Working knowledge of TCP/IP, Network Monitoring, firewalls, load-balancers, switching and routing, and the use of Network Sniffers
Able to monitor, report, and perform capacity planning on various SAN (Storage Area Network) solutions such as Compellent, EMC, and Nimble SANs
Able to monitor, report, and troubleshoot Cisco switches, routers, and firewalls, as well as DNS, IDS/IPS, and other utility applications
Working knowledge of how to troubleshoot web service issues from the browser through the database tier, with a special focus on IIS, application pools, console applications, scripts, and web services
Must possess strong analytical skills and the ability to present findings and make decisions in a fast-paced growing environment
Ability to multitask and prioritize commitments and responsibilities on a daily basis often under the pressure realized within a growing company with changing environments, new client commitments, and moving deadlines
Ability to work and communicate with internal and external clients/customers and other technical functional organizations
Excellent oral, written, and mentoring skills
Detailed-oriented in the maintenance of architecture, support, and procedure documentation
Team player and considered a key contributor within a company that is on a progressive growth path
Must be a self-starter and a technology enabler to represent the IT Team and Geographic Solutions on all projects and in all meetings with internal IT groups and business representatives, clients, and vendors
Ability to learn and retain information in a fast pace environment
Demonstrate excellent attention to detail
Ability to multi-task efficiently
Ability to work independently and/or as a part of a team
Ability to have a highly flexible schedule
Reliable Transportation
Ability to work 3rd shift
Associate degree in IT, Engineering, Computer Science or related field, or work experience considered if at least 1 year in similar position
Microsoft Certification (MCP, MCSE, MCITP, MCDBA)
Physical requirements of the job may include but are not limited to: Ability to lift 50lbs, sit or stand for long periods of time, stay awake during evening and night shifts
May also be assigned various projects and tasks as needed

Responsibilities

Working within standard three tier Internet-facing web services application environments and infrastructure within a Microsoft® based environment.
Maintaining, training/mentoring others, and evolving our enterprise monitoring, alerting, reporting, and analysis suite of tools to manage our SaaS client environments and the internal corporate infrastructure and environments. Includes our current set of tools: Solarwinds Orion, and proprietary monitors.
Creating support ticket, and ensuring incident is resolved.
Monitoring scheduled jobs in SQL, delivery of SFTP files, completion of SSIS packages, and provide escalation as needed.
Responding to alerts and notifying the various internal/external teams to assist in problem resolution.
Assisting in conference call setups for outages, initiating swat call to ensure all technical resources are engaged, and assisting in diagnosing problem.
Collecting the information for the Root Cause Analysis documentation for internal and external customers on a timely basis.
Understand the basic troubleshooting methodology with the following technology components: Web, SQL, SFTP, and file servers including Windows Server 2012/2019, IIS, Application Pools, SQL server 2012/2016/2019, SQL Clustering, console applications, secure remote access, SAN’s, MPLS, VPN’s, and Terminal Services.
Maintaining and following the company’s MAC processes and push monitoring templates to new devices, applications, and services into the NOC tool sets.
Maintaining detailed documentation on all server specifications and inventory, including model numbers, processor specifications, memory, licensing, versions, patches, changes, topology, and physical connectivity drawings.
Assist in the Problem and Incident Management functionality, including issue triage, severity level and impact determination, problem ticket creation, support notification, escalation, communication, and managing the issue through resolution and Impact Statement/Root Cause Analysis document creation when applicable.
Willing to do shift work as required.
Willing to work weekends as required.