As an Operations Technician, your duties and responsibilities will include:
• Maintain excellent acknowledgement and response time to alarms and customer calls.
• Provide high quality documentation of network failures and maintenance activity.
• Analyze, diagnose, sectionalize, isolate, and resolve trouble situations.
• Manage and correlate multiple trouble reports.
• Manage and guide restoration bridges or calls to facilitate fix with other teams.
• Provide direct support to technicians in restoration activities associated with alarm and/or outage conditions of elements managed.
• Provide follow up and closure of assigned trouble tickets.
• Knowledge of Element Management Systems (EMS), Operational Support Systems (OSS), network inventory, alarming, provisioning and other support systems is a plus
• Make port and IP assignemnts from connection requests
• Fulfill connection requets by configuring and testing the port.
• Migration work that may start inside a maintenace window.
• Troubleshooting central office connectivity (Ethernet, RS232, ISDN, X.25, Sync, and Async reverse telnet),
WHAT IT TAKES TO CATCH OUR EYE:
• Three plus years related experience.
• Experience with Cisco, Juniper, and Nokia platforms
• Layers 2 & 3 switch and router configuration and troubleshooting.
• Experience with isolation of telecom equipment trouble
• Advanced customer service, organizational interaction, and teamwork skills
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Strong communication (oral and written), customer service, organizational and multi-tasking skills.
BONUS POINTS FOR:• Telecom/Cable/Internet Service Provider industry IP NOC experience
• Cisco or Junos Certification
• RS232 and X.25 experience
• VRF, OSPF, BGP experience