Service Operations Analyst II

Weill Cornell Medicine; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Weill Cornell Medicine seeks a senior IT Operations SME to provide technical leadership across core technologies, identify incidents, analyze trends, and ensure rapid resolution of issues within the Operations Center.

The role requires expert troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and collaboration with engineering and service owners. Expect 24x7 on-call coverage and on-site work in NYC offices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or five years of equivalent technical experience.
• ITIL v3 Foundations highly desired.
• Advanced Linux, Microsoft, VMware, Network, Cisco, AWS, Azure, Security certification preferred.
• Experience with LDAP, Active Directory, DNS and DHCP technologies.
• Experience with monitoring tools, various operating systems, backup, and cloud technologies.
• Experience with PowerShell, Bash, Python, and Perl scripting.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and troubleshoot processes, triage and recover for all infrastructure and data center environments.
• Escalate IT issues and collaborate with application and operational teams for resolution.
• Drive problem analysis and incident trending to improve services.
• Document operational requirements and participate in change management processes.
• Provide training and guidance to junior analysts and act as a backup for on-call support.
• Support data center activities and collaborate with engineering on service management.

Skills

IT operations leadership

Troubleshooting

Root cause analysis

Communication

Independent work

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Linux

Microsoft

VMware

Networking

AWS

Azure

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Position Summary

This is a senior IT Operations role and is considered to be a SME (subject matter expert) in a specific domain such as Network, Security, or Infrastructure.

This role provides IT technical leadership across the primary technologies to the WCM community and is responsible for identifying incidents, events, and analyzing problem trends, overseeing the management and resolution of issues. This role is also responsible for correlating events, identifying event trends, identifying problems and contributing to root cause analysis as well as troubleshooting and resolving discovered issues under the scope of Operations Center-supported services.

Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for monitoring and troubleshooting of processes, system triage and recovery for all infrastructure, applications, and data center(s) environments. Identifies operational risks and proposes alternative solutions.
• Participates in technical escalation of IT issues, collaborating with both application and operational teams through systems analysis, diagnosis, trouble-shooting, performance analysis and resolution.
• Drives problem analysis and incident trending improvement opportunities. Works with Service Owners and Operational Management to drive continual improvement initiatives.
• Documents and represents operational requirements in service forums.
• Drives problem management initiatives and serves as a point of contact for the management of critical incidents.
• Serves as the primary contact for Service Owners to ensure operational readiness during service transition.
• Serves as escalation point for junior analysts in monitoring and troubleshooting of all SOC-monitored services, including Infrastructure, Networks, applications and monitored applications. Performs triage and remediation of detected issues.
• Provides training and guidance for junior team members.
• Provides backup for junior analysts in responding to tickets and phone queue for Service Operations Center.
• Provides backup for junior analysts in monitoring event console, identifying patterns of activity that could warrant technical intervention to resolve prior to a production outage.
• Administers servers, storage, and/or backup technologies.
• Assists with data acquisitions, electronic discovery, and forensic investigations.
• Works collaboratively with engineering team to provide continuing service management and support on all production and test/development systems. Provides support and maintenance for all current and new systems.
• Provides ongoing support and management of monitoring tools. Participates in an on-call and/or shift rotation that provides 24x7x365 coverage, including management and monitoring of mission critical systems and networks.
• Ensures that service requests are fulfilled as per the operational level agreement and committed fulfillment time.
• Develops knowledge base articles and work instructions for inclusion into knowledge base of record. Follows WCM ITIL process work flows to ensure operational tasks and activities are being followed for incident, request, change and event management.
• Follows the change management process for operational change tasks to ensure compliance for change management. Ensures all change management tasks are complete.
• Occasionally assists with data center(s) activities such as shipping, delivery, inventory, and operational tasks.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree

Experience

Bachelor's degree in a related field, or five years of equivalent technical experience required.

ITIL v3 Foundations highly desired.

Advanced Linux, Microsoft, VMware, Network, Cisco, AWS, Azure, Security certification preferred.

Experience with LDAP, Active directory, DNS and DHCP technologies.

Experience with monitoring tools, various operating systems, backup, and cloud technologies.

Experience with PowerShell, Bash, Python, and Perl scripting.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Results driven individual who enjoys working in a fast paced and challenging environment.
• Capable of working independently with little supervision or direction.
• Excellent operations, troubleshooting, and critical thinking skills.
• Technical acumen and the ability to facilitate and manage technical bridge lines that cross multiple domains.
• Ability to quickly determine root cause, business impact and resolve issues as quickly as possible.

Working Conditions/Physical Demands

May participate in a rotation, providing 24x7x365 support.

Position requires working in an office environment where there are some physical discomforts such as dust, dirt and noise.

Light travel between office locations, primarily within NYC is required.

Occasional meetings or clinical staff interactions in typical patient care areas may be required, though direct patient exposure is not expected.

Occasional moving of computer equipment or similar objects up to approximately 25 lbs may be required.

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