NOC Engineer

Location:
Greenham
Employment Type:
Permanent Employee

Company Overview

Roc Technologies specialises in providing managed services and IT solutions to a wide range of businesses across all market sectors.

Our reputation has been built on our quality processes and our employee’s ability to engage with and deliver our solutions to customers.

Department Overview

Roc has multiple Managed Service Centres, including the Southern Technology Centre (based in Newbury) and Northern Technology Centre (based in Scotland). The NOC delivers proactive management of our customer’s Networking, Private and Public Cloud as well as End-User services. The NOC ensures all contractual commitments and Service Levels are delivered to exacting standards. The NOC handle customer events, reduce failures and escalate effectively. To deliver real value to a customer and continually improve operational efficiency, the proactive elements of a Managed Service are also vital. This includes capacity management, proactive problem management, configuration management and technical changes to a customer’s environment.

Position Overview

The position of NOC Engineer will form part of a team of 8 shift-based engineers, who provide the front-line customer interface within the Southern Technology Centre.

As the front-line interface with our customers, the role is responsible for responding to our monitoring systems, triage and diagnosis, incident resolution as well as escalation to more senior resources within Roc, whilst retaining oversight of Service Level adherence.

Responsibilities

  • Monitoring and managing alarms from SolarWinds and Kaseya. opening incidents in the ticketing system and notifying customers of an event within defined SLAs

  • Manage phone calls from customers, ensuring they are made aware of what action has been or will be taken to resolve their issues

  • Handle incoming emails from customers ensuring they are acted upon in a timely manner

  • Perform Incident Management to ensure that the appropriate action is being taken to meet SLAs

  • Update customers by telephone or e-mail on the progress of a support call or to ask for additional information

  • Contact third party suppliers to log support calls, get updates on open support calls or request technical advice

  • Liaise with logistics to ensure spares are delivered to a customer site where required

  • Manage the “planned maintenance” process taking Carrier notifications of downtime and notifying the customer of any impact to service

  • Work closely with resource management to organise engineers for sites where required

  • Carry out simple remote diagnostic tests and checks when incidents are logged by customers

  • Escalating calls to senior engineers or management as appropriate

  • Liaison with internal departments, vendors and suppliers where required

  • Identifying and recommending improvements for the 1st Line Support operation

  • To take ownership of Customers requests and be proactive when dealing with Customers issues

  • To ensure all requests meet or exceed the contractual Service Level Agreements

  • Always maintain high customer-care levels

  • Carry out housekeeping tasks

  • Actively seek to improve and grow own skill and knowledge in appropriate areas

  • Ad-hoc duties as required

Skills/Experience

Essential
  • Strong PC skills

  • Experience in working within a support function (Service Desk / NOC etc)

  • Willingness and openness to learning

  • Excellent customer service skills

  • Basic Networking

Desirable
  •  Experience in working within an Enterprise or managed service support function (Service Desk / NOC etc)

  • ITIL Foundation Certificate

  • Experience working with monitoring and event management tools

  • Proven network and/or server troubleshooting experience

  • Ability to quickly assess outages and identify the likely route cause

  • Cisco or Aruba network experience

  • Working towards or able to achieve certification in Microsoft, VMware, or Citrix

  • Working in a secure environment

  • Windows Server, VMWare, Citrix, Microsoft Azure, Office 365 experience desirable

Attributes
  • Self-starter, with the ability to work alone/unsupervised

  • Analytical with strong attention to detail – able to identify and articulate issues

  • Ability to work to tight timescales without sacrificing quality

  • Professional and diligent

  • Flexible, resilient, and tenacious – able to demonstrate ownership of issues and service excellence