EOC Technical Specialist

Dunhill Professional Search & Government Solutions; Ashburn (VA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Dunhill Professional Search & Government Solutions seeks an Enterprise Operations Center technician to support a large, high-visibility IT program. The role uses enterprise monitoring tools to identify and escalate data center incidents via multiple channels, with availability for evenings and weekends as needed.

Responsibilities include incident identification, troubleshooting to resolution, and documenting procedures.

Qualifications

• Strong verbal communication skills required.
• Experience in incident, problem, and change management for large government programs.
• Experience with monitoring and incident response in data center environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide 24x7x365 support for incidents across multiple environments.
• Escalate and coordinate incidents via client escalation procedures.
• Document incidents in the ITSM tool and maintain SOPs and guides.

Skills

Verbal communication

Incident management

Change management

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor of Science (BS)

Tools

IBM Netcool Omnibus

AppDynamics

HP Operations Manager

BMC Remedy

Job description

Seeking an Enterprise Operations Center (EOC) technician. The candidate will have experience demonstrating comprehensive knowledge of key tasks on a large high visibility IT program. This role will be responsible for using Enterprise Monitoring tools to identify and escalte data center infrastructure incidents through multiple communications mechanisms. This position supports evenings and weekends as needed.

Key duties include:

• Works on high visibility or mission critical aspects of a given program and performs all functional duties independently


• Providing 24x7x365 support, resource will provide a central point for identification, troubleshooting and escalation of incidents that arise in all environments. Provide support on Incident bridge calls with emphasis on restoring service to users as quickly as possible, troubleshoot toward the resolution of incidents, and manage incidents to completion.


• Compiles incident timelines, supports change activities, and records incidents in to the ITSM platform BMC Remedy.


• Create, update and maintain Standard Operating Procedures, Technical User Guides, Troubleshooting Guides, and Customer Contact Database. Conduct quarterly reviews of all documents.


• Populate Knowledge Management Database with known troubleshooting procedures. Develop “lessons learned” on all escalated incidents.


• May supervise others.


• Monitor all applications and systems in production, development, and test environments at all Data Centers.


• Coordinate, escalat... and/or resolve operational system/application/network events that have the potential of negatively impacting system and application availability to the user community.


• Escalate incidents in accordance with established client escalation procedures.


• Identify and respond to potential problems or trends before failure or degradation occurs. Provide information on scenarios for monitoring, automation, and adjusted threshold levels to allow appropriate action to be taken before adverse impact occurs. Develop and/or enhance processes to detect and prevent future incidents and allowing for quicker diagnosis and resolution if further incidents occur.

Candidates will be required to undergo a federal background investigation in order to be granted access to sensitive information.

Minimum Requirements:

• 3-10 years of experience and a B.S. degree. Bachelor of Science (BS) can be substituted with an additional 4 years of related experience


• 3 years of experience supporting incident, problem, and change management activities for a large government agency


• 2 years of experience working on high visibility or mission critical aspects of a given program and performing all functional duties independently


• 3 years of experience using the following or similar tools: Fault and Performance monitoring and reporting tools such as IBM Netcool Omnibus, AppDynamics, HP Operations Manager


• 3 years of experience using incident management tools such as BMC Remedy


• 3 years of operational experience within a large-scale, complex Manager of Manager (MoM) type monitoring environment


• 3 years of experience with supporting one or more of the following Data Center technologies: Java App Servers, VMWare, Oracle, Unix/Linux, or IBM technologies like MQ, AIX, DB2/UDB


• Strong verbal communication skills.