NOC Communications Specialist

HonorVet Technologies; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); On-site; USD 52,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

HonorVet Technologies is seeking a NOC Communications Specialist to provide after-hours network support in Harrisburg, PA. The role involves handling end-user issues, creating and escalating ServiceNow tickets, and coordinating with engineers and vendors to restore services.

Responsibilities include incident monitoring, communication of outages, and maintaining knowledgebase documentation. Candidates should excel in customer service, adapt to shift-based coverage, and work onsite as required.

Qualifications

• Excellent written and spoken communication.
• Able to support end-users with varying IT skillsets.
• Follow documented procedures and knowledgebase guidance.
• Experience with incident management and ticketing systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide first-line network support during after-hours and weekend coverage.
• Create and escalate ServiceNow trouble tickets to engineers and vendors.
• Monitor client networks and assets using established tools.
• Communicate status updates and outages using approved templates.
• Collaborate with IT staff, vendors, and service providers.

Skills

Communication skills

Customer service

Incident management

ServiceNow

Network monitoring

After-hours support

Tools

SolarWinds

Squared Up

Job description

HonorVet Technologies is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned IT staffing firm, ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified, working with federal agencies, state governments, and Fortune 500 enterprise clients across the US. What makes us different isn't a tagline; it's the way we work. We don't forward resumes and hope for the best. We take the time to understand where a professional like you are headed and only reach out when we genuinely believe there's a fit worth exploring.

Job Title: NOC Communications Specialist

Location: Harrisburg PA, 17101 (Onsite)

Duration: 2+ Months

Work Mode: Sat-Wed, 4:00 PM-12:30 AM (2 nd shift), (Thu & Fri Off)

Job Description: The NOC Communications Specialist will provide first-line network technical support to employees and business partners through the Enterprise Network Operations Monitoring Service Desk, primarily during scheduled after-hours and weekend coverage. This position requires a technical individual with a customer-service-minded approach to dealing with Client's staff and IT teams. The individual will work closely with Client's staff, vendors, service providers and IT staff, but must also be able to work independently, multitask by prioritizing and managing their own workload, and able to ensure prompt service and end-user issue resolution.

Key Responsibilities

End-user Support

• Answer inbound phone calls concerning network issues from Client employees, and LEC/Last User Contract, LUC, vendors.
• Creates and escalates Service Now trouble tickets to Engineers, tier two Client staff, and/or third-party service providers to ensure the quick resolution of IT/Network issues.
• Works with NOC T2 Engineers, Client staff and contracted personnel, and/or third-party providers as needed.
• Research and updates reference publications and diagnostic aids to seek information necessary to resolve end-user issues as needed.
• Follows IT Service Desk and Network Operator Knowledgebase procedures and makes recommendations when improvements are needed.
• Promptly and properly elevate high-priority issues. Monitoring & Maintenance
• Utilize network management tools, such as Solar Winds and Squared up, to monitor remote sites network and hardware.
• Actively monitors the status of Client networks and attached network assets using established tools and promptly initiates appropriate actions.
• Responds to outages and system failures using established escalation processes.
• Provide first-line investigation and diagnosis of network incidents, logging all details and prioritization of incidents.
• Escalate after hours incidents to staff for resolution.
• Promptly assign unresolved incidents to higher Tier support or LUC providers to coordinate restoration of service and obtain the necessary information for recording/tracking the outage or degradation of service.
• Coordinate with network staff and various vendors to assist with service restoration based on alarm conditions.
• Actively monitors the Service Now ticket queue.
• Monitors appropriate Client email accounts for any event messages and initiates action as needed.
• Proactively identifies and resolves problems.

Communication

• Acts as the primary network contact for Client employees and business partners outside of regular business hours.
• Perform Enterprise Incident communications using defined process and approved template.
• Monitors the network hotline during coverage hours.
• Issues network status updates using established procedures.
• Follows quality standards and displays strong customer service skills.

Routine Tasks

• Assists the network engineers and technicians with outstanding tasks.
• Updates network operation and knowledgebase documentation.
• Participates in disaster recovery.
• Completes assigned tasks.

Required Skills

• Possesses excellent communication skills; both written and spoken.
• Ability to be clearly understood and has excellent phone etiquette.
• Ability to support end-users with varying IT skillsets.
• Ability to follow directions, especially when using established operation and knowledgebase documentation, and Client standard operating procedures.
• Ability to adapt to change. Detail oriented and resourceful. Excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to troubleshoot end-user issues and/or escalation as needed to ensure quick resolution.
• Experience with incident management, call tracking, and ticketing software (preferably ServiceNow).

Preferred Skills/Qualifications

• 2+ years previous systems administrator, help desk, and/or call center experience.