Job Description

At NTT we believe that by using innovative technology we can solve global challenges and create a world that is sustainable and secure. We are looking for curious people, from diverse backgrounds, that are keen to work in a fast-paced and agile environment.
At NTT we trust our employees to do the right thing, even when no one is watching, which is why we offer flexibility in the workplace. The majority of our roles are hybrid, meaning we encourage a balance of working from home and our local office. Ask our recruitment team if this is a hybrid role. Want to be a part of our team? MS Engineer (L2) is responsible for providing a managed service to clients to ensure that their IT infrastructure and systems remain operational. Through the proactive monitoring, identifying, investigating and resolving of technical incidents and problems, the MS Engineer (L2) are able to restore service to clients. Their primary objective is to proactively review client requests or tickets and apply technical/process knowledge to resolve them without breaching service level agreement (SLA). The MS Engineer (L2) focuses on second line support for incidents and requests with medium level of complexity.

Radford reference:

"Performs IT functions such as design, analysis, evaluation, testing, debugging and implementation of applications programs supporting the company infrastructure business processes and operations and/or network-based (cloud) product systems. Analyzes, installs, acquires, modifies and supports operating systems, database or utilities software. Plans, conducts and directs the analysis of business problems with automated systems solutions. Analyzes, designs, acquires and implements projects for LAN and/or WAN systems. Plans, designs, acquires and implements telecommunications voice/wire systems. At higher job levels, may contribute to the development, testing, evaluation or design of system or infrastructure architecture used throughout the IT solution set." Working at NTT
Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Proactively monitors the work queues.
• Perform operational tasks to resolve all incidents / requests in a timely manner and within agreed SLA.
• Update tickets with resolution tasks performed
• Identify, Investigate, analyse issues and errors prior to or when they occur and log all such incidents in a timely manner. Capture all required and relevant information for immediate resolution
• Provide second level support to all incidents, requests and identify the root cause of incidents and problems
• Communicate with other teams and clients for extending support
• Execute changes with clear identification of risks and mitigation plans to be captured into the change record
• Follow the shift hand over process highlighting any key tickets to be focussed along with a handover of upcoming critical tasks to be carried out in the next shift
• Escalate all tickets to seek right focus from CoE and other teams, if needed continue the escalations to management
• Work with automation teams for effort optimization and automating routine tasks
• Coach Service Desk and L1 teams for technical and behavioural skills
• Establish monitoring for client infrastructure
• Identify problems and errors before they impact a client’s service
• Lead and manages all initial client escalation for operational issues.
• Contribute to the change management process by logging all change requests with complete details for standard and non-standard including patching and any other changes to Configuration Items. Ensures all changes are carried out with proper change approvals
• Plan and execute approved maintenance activities
• Audit and analyse incident and request tickets for quality and recommends improvements with updates to knowledge articles.
• Produce trend analysis reports for identifying tasks for automation, leading to reduction in tickets and optimization of effort

Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:

• Ability to communicate and work across different cultures and social groups
• Ability to plans activities and projects well in advance, and takes into account possible changing circumstances
• Ability to maintain a positive outlook at work
• Ability to work well in a pressurised environment
• Ability to work hard and put in longer hours when it is necessary
• Ability to apply active listening techniques such as paraphrasing the message to confirm understanding, probing for further relevant information and refraining from interrupting
• Ability to adapt to changing circumstances
• Ability to place client at the forefront of all interactions, understanding their requirements and creating a positive client experience throughout the total client journey Main Duties / Key Accountabilities
• Accept, manage and update service requests to ensure contracted Service Level Agreements are met.
• Provide remote technical support within Managed Services’ ITIL aligned service delivery processes including Incident Management, Problem Management, Configuration Management, Change Management and Release Management.
• Automating infrastructure technologies with a modern approach aligned to things such as Infrastructure as Code, Configuration as Code, and DevOps.
• Maintain existing automation infrastructure used to identify risks in areas such as performance, reliability, capability and scalability.
• Manage, own and co-ordinate the technical resolution of incidents either remotely or onsite utilising Field Engineering resources
• Plan, coordinate and implement complex network changes within customer specified change windows, adhering to a predefined ITIL change management framework. This will include liaising with the customer, third party suppliers, vendors and partners to ensure minimal disruption to the customer’s day-to-day business operations, and the provision of a seamless, coordinated delivery of services.
• Plan, coordinate and execute release management activities within customer specified change windows, adhering to a predefined ITIL release management framework plan, coordinate and execute configuration management activities within customer specified change windows, adhering to a predefined ITIL configuration management framework plan, coordinate and execute life-cycle management activities within customer specified change windows, adhering to a predefined ITIL life cycle management framework Identify Known Errors and document these within the Known Errors Database
• Where necessary, liaise and work with Professional Services Engineers and Solutions Architects around client projects and deployments
• Where appropriate, use lab equipment and resources to attempt to recreate client incidents and undertake fault simulation activities.
• Maintain detailed knowledge of the clients’ environment(s), where applicable, by maintaining and updating relevant documentation such as Network Diagrams, Configuration Databases along with process and procedural documentation.
• Provide proactive, constant and clear communication on the status of incident / problem resolution between the client, NTT, and any other third party supplier and vendors.
• Escalate issues affecting delivery of service to management
• Understand and manage the requirements of being part of a 24x7 on-call operation, including but not limited to, shift hand-over, operational advice, guidance, support and escalation
• Understand the scope, delivery mechanisms and processes of all relevant Services delivered by Managed Services
• Execution of the Managed Services business plan and strategies relating to Engineering

Academic Qualifications:

• Diploma, degree or relevant qualification in IT/Computing (or demonstrated equivalent work experience)

Technical Requirements:

• At least 3-5 years of experience in a technical support environment working with Cisco, Juniper, Checkpoint, Palo Alto, BlueCoat, Zscalar and F5 security products.
• Cisco CCNP Security certified with good working experience in supporting Cisco ASA, FTD/IPS, ISE, AnyConnect VPN.
• Good knowledge to support, maintenance and troubleshoot any incident and request on Cisco ASA/Firepower/FTD, Cisco ISE, Juniper SRX in complex enterprise environment.
• Experience in supporting Web gateway technology from Zscaler ZIA, Symantec bluecoat web gateway.
• Experience with supporting F5 LTM, ASM, WAF and GTM.
• Experience in supporting and strong knowledge on VPN technologies from Cisco and Zscaler ZPA,
• Experience in managing Compliance management tools like Firemon, Skybox, Algosec.
• Good knowledge of routing and switching protocols.
• Good command over scripting language like Phyton,php. exposure to Stackstorm.
• Knowledge or certification of F5 Big-IP LTM, GTM and ASM modules.
• Has proficiency in Analytics technologies: (ElasticSearch, PowerBI, JSON)

• Desirable
• Cisco Security and Juniper SRX certification.
• Knowledge of AlgoSec, Firemom, Skybox.
• Knowledge on Vulnerability Management and Compliance /Risk Analysis tools like Firemon, Skybox.
• Prior experience and/or training with regard to the ITIL Services Framework.
• Experience in supporting Splunk Log search head, running query.
• Knowledge of Mitre framework.

Required Experience:

• Moderate years of relevant managed services experience
• Moderate level knowledge in ticketing tools preferably Service Now

What will make you a good fit for the role?
Standard career level descriptor for job level:

• Seasoned and experienced professional
• Has full understanding of specialisation area
• Resolves wide range of issues in creative ways
• Fully qualified, career level, career journey-orientated
• Uses good judgement in selecting tools and methods to solve problems
• Networks with senior internal and external people in own area of expertise
• Receives little instruction on day-to-day work, receives general instructions on new assignments
• Typically requires demonstrable related experience with a Bachelor’s or equivalent degree; or moderate level experience and a Master’s or equivalent degree; or a PhD or equivalent degree without experience; or equivalent work experience

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