Transport / IP (TRIP) NOC Technician

Northern Technologies Group, Inc.•O'Fallon, IL

About The Position

Our customer is the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and acts as the provider of GIG/Defense Information System Network (DISN) services to its customers, the department of Defense (DoD) and national security organizations. This position directly supports the DISA-provided GIG capabilities and services in the 24x7 DISA Global Operations Center (DGOC). Due to contract requirements, US Citizenship is required along with a current clearance.

Requirements

Currently possess an active Secret security clearance and be able to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret security clearance.
1 to 2 years of relevant experience.
Must have DoD-8570 IAT Level 2 baseline certification (Security+ CE, or equivalent) at start date.
Ability to work in a 24/7 operation.
Experience with one or more of the following: alarm surveillance, fault management, LAN maintenance, performance management.
Expertise in three or more of the following: routers, switches, crypto devices, routing, DSN/DRSN, Video Services, Promina, CISCO, Juniper, MSPP, DWDM, Optical Switching.
General understanding of network topologies, both transport and IP.

Nice To Haves

Tech control facility or cyber transport experience
Circuit actions and vendor experience
IP architecture experience
Telco NOC, inside or outside plant experience.
Experience with MS Office suite, i.e. Outlook, Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, TEAMs
Experience with one or more of the following: alarm surveillance, fault management, LAN maintenance, performance management, change management.
Any additional certifications to include: CCNA, CYSA+, CASP, CCNP, JNCIE-ENT, JNCIA-Junos, WCNA, CCIE, F5 Networks Certified Technical Specialist, ITILv4, CCA-N, CCA-V, SolarWinds Certified Professional Program

Responsibilities

Create and update tickets utilizing ITSM.
Monitor network events and element management failures in real-time on a 24x7x365 basis across multiple monitoring tools.
Incident Correlation and Fault Analysis: Proactively analyze alarms; provide detailed analyses; leading to resolution of the alarm conditions, including filtering and correlating fault information; identifying the fault condition and its impacts; isolating root causes; coordinating correction of fault situations regardless of the fault in the infrastructure
Notify necessary points of contact based on essential or heightened awareness networks, circuits or location of incidents
Incident Analysis (Fault Isolation): Support the fault isolation process; diagnoses and troubleshooting utilizing procedures to isolate where the fault occurs; identify failed network element(s) i.e. systems, hardware, software, circuits, or facilities; Activities include testing, fault troubleshooting, fault localization, fault logging and assignment
Support all customers to include providing global situational awareness support.
Fault Correction: Correct/replace faulty network elements, coordinating with other service providers as necessary; Verify that service has been restored upon resolution of all customer-initiated tickets
Network/Service Restoration: Restore networks and service to full operation; Coordinate with other service providers as necessary to track service restoration and meet the DISN SLA and customer negotiated SLAs; Identify failures that are attributable to a different causes and impacts; Conduct reroute and normalization of services and circuits due to outages, degradation, or Authorized Service Interruptions (ASIs); Reroute routine circuits within 24 hours of notification; Documenting reroute in the configuration management database (CMDB); Provide updates on outages from technicians and/or government incident tickets until a resolution or path to resolution is identified and documented in ticket.
Provide 24/7/365 sustainment support for outages, degradation of services and Tier 1/Tier 2 support
Provide timely situational awareness to leadership and the impacted community within discovery and ticket creation using approved communication methods as outlined
Works directly with Shift lead and O&M leadership for guidance
Incident Escalation: Fault escalation, customer coordination and communications, and ticket system updates and status reporting utilizing procedures between Tier I and Tier II. Record, assess, track, and monitor incident tickets escalated to operational infrastructure.
Demonstrated knowledge of training, standard operating procedures, and tools within O&M: Evaluates and provides feedback for training, standard operating procedures, and tools; Assist in training Network controllers within O&M; Effectively communicates with the O&M team and the customer.
Provide technical advice and insight to peers and customers to assist in resolution of complex issues.
Demonstrate proficiency of several functions within DISN: routers, switches, crypto devices, routing, DSN/DRSN, Video Services, Promina, CISCO, Juniper, MSPP, DWDM, Optical Switching, etc.