NOC Technician

NOC Technician

Chicago, IL – work from home 2 days/week and onsite 3 days/week

• Fri and Sat: 7:00 AM to 3 PM
• Sun, Mon and Tues: 7:30 AM – 3:30 PM

• Tues through Sat: 3:30 PM – 11:30 PM

The NOC Technician is part of a NOC team who are responsible for providing 24 x 7 365 infrastructure and applications management, support and monitoring of IT systems. Using IT Operations monitoring and management tools, the analyst will provide technical troubleshooting, oversight, and escalation for complex network, server, and storage incidents.

In this role you will support the NOC, which is made up of Enterprise Applications, Architecture and Infrastructure, with hardware break/fix, vendor interaction, maintenance, and system updates. You will also serve as the Incident Manager for major incidents that require coordination of communications, tracking of issues and escalation to management.

• Monitor the performance and health of the infrastructure using a variety of tools to identify and determine next steps.
• Provide triage or basic troubleshooting to help identify issues by following outlined (SOP) standard operating procedures and escalating appropriately.
• Document all actions in accordance with standard company policies and procedures.
• Maintain ongoing communication during major incidents to keep all stakeholders aware of relevant information and next steps.
• Perform basic systems testing and operational tasks (installation of patches, network connectivity testing, script execution, etc.).
• Work with internal and external technical and service teams to create and/or update knowledge base articles.
• Meet daily and monthly performance standards, including MTTR, abandon rates, incident response time, etc. from Service Now.
• Complete and distribute complete transition report to management and incoming shift on a daily basis.
• Develop and implement changes to processes to ensure continuous process improvement and effective governance.
• May occasionally need to lift, carry or move equipment up to 25 pounds.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Must have a High School Diploma at a minimum, Bachelor's Degree is preferred.
• 1+ year of experience working in a NOC, as a NOC Technician, NOC Analyst, etc.
• Experience with monitoring systems such as Solar Winds, SCOM, Pingdom, Hostmonitor, etc.

• Experience working with Cisco products.
• Experience with VMware/VSphere.
• Experience with Windows Server.
• Experience with scripting using Batch, VBscript or Powershell.
• Storage monitoring and administration experience.
• Microsoft System Center Suite experience.
• Knowledge of ITIL Foundations.
• Excellent troubleshooting, reporting monitoring skills.