Network MS Engineer L1

Your day at NTT DATA

• As a Networking Managed Services Engineer L1 at NTT DATA, you'll step into an entry-level role where your primary focus will be providing managed services to ensure our clients' IT infrastructure and systems remain operational. Your day will involve proactively identifying, investigating, and resolving technical incidents and problems to support our clients effectively.
• You'll monitor client infrastructure and solutions, catching errors before or as soon as they occur. Your role will involve investigating first-line incidents, understanding their root causes, and following approved procedures for request fulfilment. Whether it's providing telephonic, ITSM ticket or chat support, executing maintenance activities like patching and configuration changes, or ensuring smooth shift handovers for continuous service, your efforts are all about maintaining high standards of service quality.
• You'll also identify opportunities for optimization, whether it's reducing common incidents or finding automation possibilities for request fulfilment, incident resolution, and process improvements. Your role may occasionally extend to supporting project work and disaster recovery functions and tests, contributing to our broader goals and ensuring we're always ahead of the curve.
• Throughout your journey with us, you'll ensure that incidents and requests are resolved efficiently and comprehensively, escalating when necessary. You'll also help update existing knowledge or to share valuable insights, ensuring we continuously learn and improve.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Identify problems and errors prior to or when they occur
• Routinely identify common incidents and opportunities for avoidance as well as general opportunities for incident reduction
• Investigate first line incidents assigned and identify the root cause of incidents and problems
• Report and escalate issues to 3rd party vendors
• Fulfil approved requests following agreed procedures
• Provide telephonic or chat support to clients when required
• Follow the required handover procedures for shift changes to ensure service continuity
• Report and escalate incidents where necessary
• Ensure the efficient and comprehensive resolutions of incidents and requests
• Proactively identify opportunities for work optimisation
• Update existing knowledge articles or create new ones
• Identify opportunities for work optimisation including opportunities for automation of work, request fulfilment, incident resolution and other general process improvement opportunities.

Knowledge, Skills and Attributes

• Demonstrate excellent attention to detail
• Demonstrate good written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to plan activities well in advance, and considers possible changing circumstances
• Ability to maintain a positive outlook at work
• Ability to work well in a pressurised environment
• Ability to work hard and put in longer hours when it is necessary
• Ability to apply active listening techniques such as paraphrasing the message to confirm understanding, probing for further relevant information and refraining from interrupting
• Ability to adapt to changing circumstances
• Ability to place client at the forefront of all interactions, understanding their requirements and creating a positive client experience throughout the total client journey

Academic Qualifications

• Diploma, degree or relevant qualification in IT/Computing or demonstrated equivalent work experience

Experience

• 2–4 year's work experience
• At least 2 years' experience in administering and troubleshooting network infrastructure devices

What will make you a good fit for the role?

• Up to date and relevant ITIL certification Foundation Level
• CCNA
• CCNP Advantageous
• Cisco IOS
• Wireless Knowledge
• SDWAN experience advantageous.
• Routing
• LAN – WAN
• Experience with Networking