The Level 2 Network Support Specialist position exists within Interface Security System’s Managed Network Operations Center, which is focused on providing enterprise-scale network customers with a world class support experience. Interface provides this portfolio of customers with a diverse bundle of managed communications, networking, and security solutions. Those managed solutions include Internet, Phones, VPNs, WiFi, integrated backup, LAN switching, security alarm monitoring, and video services. This role engages with those customers and technologies directly. The Level 2 Network Support Analyst role is designed to meet these customer’s unique business and technology support needs for the enterprise managed network services bundle. This primary responsibility of the Level 2 Network Support Specialist is to play a key role in enabling a seamless customer-driven support experience for the complex networks. The chief duties of this role are to manage expedient resolution of all associated voice/data network service impairments. Level 2 team members are required to be OSI model and network fault isolation experts and are required to have extensive experience with IP-based Voice/Data network configuration, delivery, or support knowledge. This role acts as the primary endpoint for technical escalation and fault isolation for customer network-driven events, immediately prior to engaging engineering resources from within the network organization. This role also engages directly with customers as required therefore must have exceptionally strong written, oral, and customer communication skills. Level 2 Network Support Specialists are required to provide real-time network support through various channels including ticket management applications, email, chat, and phone. Key day to day functions include supporting network incidents that could not be resolved by the Level 1 support teams. Those cycles range in size and complexity; including everything from single site device and connectivity diagnosis to broad scale network faults and complex configuration changes. Among other platforms and technologies supported, router and Ethernet switch support, IP and SIP-based voice platforms, managed VPNs, WiFi, and integrated backup solutions are the most common areas of support focus. A wide range of network architectures, equipment, and access types are supported; ie. Cisco, Fortinet, & Meraki equipment platforms, IP-based VoIP and SIP solutions, a wide range of access types [from xDSL/Cable/T1 and 4G/5G to Optical], proprietary VPN configurations, and back-up network solutions.