The NOC Analyst L2 provides advancedoperational support for network, cloud, security, and infrastructure services.This role is responsible for complex troubleshooting, root cause analysis,problem management, vendor coordination, and mentoring L1 analysts whileensuring high availability of enterprise environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform advanced troubleshooting for network, cloud, andsecurity-related incidents.
- Lead incident resolution for Priority 1 and Priority 2 outages.
- Datadog monitoring and troubleshooting
- Aruba wireless, Hands-on experience with Juniper routers,switches, and firewalls, ISP and internet circuit management
- GitHub, including submitting and reviewing pull requests
- Conduct detailed Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and ProblemManagement activities.
- Support Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA), Zscaler Private Access(ZPA), and secure remote access environments.
- Troubleshoot routing, firewall, VPN, and applicationconnectivity issues.
- Manage cloud infrastructure incidents across Azure and AWSplatforms.
- Perform change implementations and maintenance activities.
- Coordinate with OEMs and third-party vendors for issueresolution.
- Review infrastructure capacity, availability, and performancetrends.
- Mentor L1 analysts and support knowledge managementinitiatives.
- Participate in major incident management and operationalreviews.
- Create and maintain technical runbooks and SOPs.
Technical Skills
Networking
- Advanced Routing & Switching
- BGP, OSPF, MPLS
- SD-WAN
Security & Zscaler
- Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA)
- Zscaler Private Access (ZPA)
- Secure Web Gateway
- SSL Inspection
- Traffic Forwarding
- Proxy Troubleshooting
- Firewall Technologies
- SASE Concepts
- Zero Trust Architecture
- AWS
- Cloud Security Monitoring
- IAM & Identity Services
Infrastructure
- Windows Server Administration
- Active Directory
- DNS/DHCP Services
ITSM & Operations
Shift & Scheduling
- 24x7 rotational support
- On-call participation for critical escalations
- Planned maintenance and change window support
Preferred Certifications
- ITIL 4 Foundation
- CCNP Enterprise or Equivalent
- AWS SysOps Administrator Associate, AWS Security Specialty
Highly Preferred Zscaler Certifications
- Zscaler Certified Cloud Administrator
Additional Preferred Certifications
- Juniper
- Fortinet NSE 4+
- Microsoft SC-200 Security Operations Analyst