Watch Officer (NOC) - Secret Clearance

V2X Inc; Doha; On-site; QAR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-paid housing

Transportation provided

Completion bonus

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

V2X Inc. in Doha, Qatar seeks a Watch Officer (NOC) to supervise enterprise networks and automation systems, ensuring performance and fault management under RCC-SWA guidance. The role requires top-level security credentials and experience in a 24/7 operational environment.

The candidate will analyze networks, manage incidents, and provide reports, while coordinating with multiple entities to maintain situational awareness and service quality.

Qualifications

• Active Secret Clearance required.
• DoD 8570.01M baseline certifications and at least one CE certification required; certifications listed above are acceptable.
• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Must be able to work rotating 24/7 shift schedule.
• Experience with a customer service-oriented company.

Responsibilities

• Manages, monitors and maintains situational awareness of all network and system entities under the responsibility of the NOC.
• Single point of contact for communications and Enterprise services as required.
• Attends or conducts regular meetings to communicate network and data system changes and project progression.
• Schedules workload and reports status to NOC Chief Watch Officer.
• Handles incidents and service requests, updating tickets and providing customer feedback.
• Oversees incident tickets from start to resolution and closure after escalation.
• Prepares outage reports and assists in trend analysis for NOC.
• Provides operational status reporting to RCC-SWA and enforces IA controls.

Education

Cisco CCNA: Certified Network Associate - Security

Cisco CCNP: Certified Network Professional - Security

CompTIA A+ ce

CompTIA CASP+ ce

CompTIA CySA+ ce

CompTIA Network+ ce

CompTIA Security+ ce

GIAC GCED

GIAC GCIH

GIAC GICSP

GIAC GSEC

ISACA CISA

ISC2 CISSP (or Associate)

ISC2 SSCP

Job description

Overview

Working across the globe, V2X builds smart solutions designed to integrate physical and digital infrastructure from base to battlefield. We bring 120 years of successful mission support to improve security, streamline logistics, and enhance readiness. Aligned around a shared purpose, our $3.9B company and 16,000 people work alongside our clients, here and abroad, to tackle their most complex challenges with integrity, respect, responsibility, and professionalism.

The Watch Officer (WO) p erforms duties as a shift supervisor and shall be the senior NOC person in the absence of the Chief Watch Officer. The Watch Officer shall supervise the operation of the automation systems comprising the NOC. The Watch Officer shall perform and oversee high-level network performance and fault management under the technical guidance and direction of the RCC-SWA, for networks and network segments to include individual circuits and network components. The position must possess technical expertise in both systems architecture and network design. Watch Officers may be called on to participate in and lead design and implementation projects as required.

Program: OMDAC-SWACA.

The Watch Officer manages, monitors, and maintains situational awareness of all networks and systems under the responsibility of the NOC and will be responsible for resolving issues, tracking, and reporting progress through complete resolution. The candidate will also be responsible for providing operational support to users within the AOR for managing, monitoring and maintaining situational awareness of the networks and systems under NOC responsibility. The position analyzes and troubleshoots networks, to include network security policies and procedures, network performance tuning and trending analysis and opens trouble tickets. The role generates reports and updates trouble tickets as required.

This position offers company-paid housing and transportation, a completion bonus and tuition reimbursement program!

You must satisfy all host country requirements to legally work in the host country to include but not limited to the ability to obtain and maintain a host nation visa and host nation driver's license in order to be qualified for this position.

Responsibilities

• Manages, monitors and maintains situational awareness of all network and system entities under the responsibility of the NOC.
• Single point of contact for all communications needs and perform Enterprise services as required.
• Attends and or conducts regular meetings to keep all parties apprised of network and communications/data systems changes, improvements, and project progression as required.
• Schedules and prioritizes individual workload, and provides status of tasking to the NOC Chief Watch Officer as is required.
• Focal point for reporting all incidents (disruptions or potential disruptions in service availability or quality) and user POC for Service Requests (routine requests for services).
• Provides overview and implementation of all NTOs as distributed to the various levels and ensures accuracy of all data prior to submission for completion.
• Facilitates problem resolution by monitoring and reviewing tickets, gathering information on outages, and updating service tickets throughout the resolution process in order to provide the customer with feedback and/or resolution information as needed.
• Works closely with all entities to ensure tickets are updated accurately and with the current information.
• Provides technical and operational support to functional users by managing, monitoring, and maintaining situational awareness of networks and systems under the responsibility of the NOC.
• Provides initial response to outage, degradation, or other events affecting systems and networks under the responsibility of the RNOSC, in assigning trouble tickets to the appropriate section.
• Takes guidance and direction from NOC Chief/Watch Officer if service request is beyond scope of the NOC.
• Responsible for ownership of Incident (Remedy) tickets from start until resolution and confirmation and closure of ticket once escalated to the TNOSC while keeping the customer informed of progress.
• Assists in preparing and presenting networks and systems outage reports for the NOC to various agencies.
• Assists in monitoring and tracking all networks and systems under the responsibility of the NOC and assist in completing outage trend analysis reports.
• Assists in providing operational status reporting to the RCC-SWA relating to network operations.
• Enforces IA in accordance with AR 25-2 and shall provide initial triage on suspicious activities and evaluate them in accordance with policies and procedures.
• Processes and tracks authorized service interruptions (ASI) for subordinate facilities for routine maintenance and other scheduled service interruptions.
• Conducts systematic audits on all information provided by the sites to include but not limited to database backups, network diagrams, and end of lifecycle data.
• Additional requirements may vary depending upon location.
• Working environment will be 90% indoor, 10% outdoor.
• Performs other duties and assignments as required.

Qualifications

• Security Clearance: Requires an active Secret Clearance.
• Education / Certifications: One year related experience may be substituted for one year of education, if degree is required.`
• High school diploma required or equivalent.
• This position requires candidates to adhere to DoD 8570.01M. All candidates are required to maintain at least one (1) baseline certification and one (1) computing environment (CE) certification. Baseline certifications cannot also be used as a Computing Environment (CE) certification. The authorized certifications for this job title are listed as follows: Cisco: CCNA: Certified Network Associate - Security Cisco: CCNP: Certified Network Professional - Security CompTIA: A+ ce CompTIA: CASP+ ce: Advanced Security Practitioner CompTIA: CySA+ ce: Cybersecurity Analyst CompTIA: Network+ ce CompTIA: Security+ ce CompTIA: SecurityX ce GIAC: GCED: Certified Enterprise Defender GIAC: GCIH: Certified Incident Handler: Certified Incident Handler GIAC: GICSP: Industrial Cyber Security Professional GIAC: GSEC: Security Essentials ISACA: CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor ISC2: CISSP (or Associate): Certified Information Systems Security Professional ISC2: SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner
• 7 years experience in telecommunications sector.
• Must be able to work rotating shift schedules which provide 24 hour day/7 day week coverage.
• Experience with a customer service-oriented company.

Supervisory/Budgetary Responsibilities

• At least two years of supervisory or lead experience is preferred.
• Update proprietary applications regarding: Update section employee daily status, leave, sick, on site, etc. Verify and track accomplishment of section monthly or quarterly safety and compliance training Purge section employee expired certifications. Verify section employee compliance training in Virtual Training Record. Verify section vehicle logs are being kept accurately and uploaded. Ensure section personnel are maintaining their 8570 / 8140 certifications.
• Review weekly training compliance reports for accomplishment prior to suspense.
• Review and approve leave forms ensuring