Transport​/Ip; Trip Noc Technician

Position: TRANSPORT / IP (TRIP) NOC TECHNICIAN
Location: Scott Air Force Base

** Description*
* 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).

The Leidos Digital Modernization Sector and Global Solutions Management-Operations II (GSMO-II) have an opening in our TRANSPORT / IP (TRIP) NOC for a TRANSPORT / IP (TRIP) NOC TECHNICIAN at Scott AFB.

** Due to contract requirements, US Citizenship is required along with a current clearance.*
* **** Our anticipated salary range for this role is $65,000 - $75,000***
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* PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

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* - 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 contacts based on essential or heightened awareness networks, circuits or location of incidents

- Incident Analysis (Fault Isolation):
Support the fault isolation process; diagnoses and troubleshoot 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 the DISN: routers, switches, crypto devices, routing, DSN/DRSN, Video Services, Promina, CISCO, Juniper, MSPP, DWDM, Optical Switching, etc.

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* BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

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* - 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.

- Currently possess an active Secret security clearance and be able to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret security clearance.

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* PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

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* -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…