NOC Engineer

• Remote
• Part-Time
• This role owns the health of our managed client fleet: backups that run and can be restored, RMM alerts that get fixed rather than ignored, and patches and vulnerabilities that get closed. You'll work a remediation backlog down and keep it down
• Annual Salary Range: $30,000 - $35,000

Business hours ET, an early-morning overnight-jobs check, and an after-hours escalation rotation.

• Triage failed, missed and warning backup jobs daily across Veeam servers, agents and cloud copies
• Remote in through Ninja One/Screen Connect to fix storage, repository, network, licensing and upgrade issues
• Run scheduled and on-request restore tests (Sure Backup, file/VM) and write audit-ready evidence
• Enforce the PTG backup standard: 3-2-1 with a cloud copy, minimum retention, encryption, and no synthetic fulls that overrun storage
• Run the half-yearly backup audit and present the findings
• Maintain VSPC: onboarding and offboarding, report recipients, and keeping the managed list matched to billing

• Work the open Ninja One condition-alert queue to zero, fixing the root cause so the same device stops re-alerting
• Antivirus/EDR health: AV missing, disabled or not updating, and unsupported AV installed
• Low disk space on workstations and servers: cleanup, profile and temp clearing, and escalating hardware upgrades
• Server and virtualization alerts: VMware/Hyper-V datastore free space, stale VM checkpoints, hardware sensors, high memory, and critical services down (e.g. ADSync)
• Device-offline alerts: confirm real outages and separate them from platform false positives
• Tune alert conditions and thresholds so alerts are actionable, not noise

• Remediate failed patches in Ninja One:
  Windows cumulative/security updates and third-party applications, including stuck or half-finished patch runs and pending reboots
• Install out-of-band updates manually when policy can't approve them
• Remediate vulnerability-scanner findings: patch, upgrade, reconfigure or remove the affected software, then verify the finding clears
• Report patch compliance and the open vulnerability backlog weekly

• Own Halo tickets from alert to close, with clear notes
• Produce the daily, weekly and monthly reports
• Work CMMC client systems under their access controls
• Keep credentials and runbooks current in Hudu

• 3+ years in an MSP or IT ops role
• Hands-on Veeam B&R: jobs, repositories, backup copy, agents and Sure Backup
• Day-to-day RMM alert remediation (Ninja One preferred): AV/EDR health, disk space, services, offline devices
• Windows patch troubleshooting: failed cumulative updates, servicing stack and component store repair (DISM/SFC), WSUS/Windows Update logs, and third-party patching
• Vulnerability remediation from scanner findings, with a record of verifying the fix
• Windows Server, Hyper-V/VMware, storage (NAS, iSCSI) and basic networking
• Experience with object storage targets (Backblaze, Azure Blob, Cloud Connect), including immutability and quotas
• Clear writing for both tickets and client reports
• Disciplined credential handling. Must be able to pass a background check for CMMC access

• VMCE; VSPC
• Huntress or another EDR/ITDR platform
• Veeam for M365 and Azure backup
• CMMC / NIST 800-171
• Power Shell for remediation scripts

Veeam B&R and agents, VSPC, Ninja One (alerting, conditions, patch management), Screen Connect, Huntress, Hyper-V/VMware, object storage targets, Halo, Hudu.