Int. Network Analyst - 54397

Business Unit: ITS Service Continuity Ops

Duration: 1 year

Extension possible: yes

Conversion Possible: yes

Schedule: shift work - Day shift and Night shift

Rotation Schedule: 7 days a week/24 hours a day) i.e. 2 shifts (7am-7pm ET) & (7pm-7am ET).

150 hours per month, may have two 12 hour shifts one week and four 12 hour shifts next week - schedules are fixed

Interview Process: 1 remote interview and 1 onsite interview

Work Location: 625 Veterans Drive, Barrie, Ontario, onsite 100%

Department Overview: Operations Support Group (Network Operations) is a 7/24 Service Availability (Dual Site Coverage) department responsible for providing frontline support of the network environment. The primary focus of the team is reacting to any/all anomalies that are presented through a variety of monitoring tools for the Bank’s mission critical network. We are looking for self-motivated and focused individuals who enjoy a fast-paced environment requiring attention to detail.

An IT Operations Analyst IV within Network Operations Support Group is responsible for providing senior level support of the Bank Group network infrastructure. This includes BRP capabilities, incident management and support of all components associated with these environments. Areas of support include the LAN, MAN, WAN, RLAN, Wireless, Firewall, Load balancer and Optical solutions.

Accountabilities will include, but not limited to, following:

• Manage day to day deliverables during the shift, under the overall direction of the NOC Shift Leader. The primary accountability of this position is to ensure that all work deliverables during the shift are efficiently managed with strong delivery and prompt escalations to the Shift Lead/Manager positions as needed. Engage other teams or escalate to L2/L3 teams as necessary. Smooth takeover of work as well as well documented and smooth hand over is part of the accountability.

• Provide strong technical support while ensuring that NOC processes and procedures are followed properly by the team that they are the part of. This includes proper use of automation, following proper remediation procedures, high quality ticket and vendor issue updates, handover documentation, etc.

• Collaborate strongly with the Shift leader to manage the queue, work intake as well as delivery.

• Engage in high priority incidents (P2's) or incident calls and provide support.

• Engage with wider operational teams like EES/OCG and other support areas on an ongoing basis.

• Ensure work being taken over is followed up promptly while providing proper handover to the next shift as well as to the Shift Leader.

• Support the incident, change and problem management processes.

• Manage incident queue and effectively prioritize and triage incidents based on critical devices and shared services.

• Help develop team members, provide effective feedback and recognition when needed

• Help assess training needs, process gaps and improvement suggestions, automation opportunities and effectively communicate upwards to the Shift leader and Manager as required

• Assess impact and potential impact/risk and report to the shift leader/Manager very promptly when significant issues occur

• Escalations with internal teams and 3rd party vendors.

• Manage chronic, repeat and aging incidents with proper internal/external escalations.

• Create MoPs and how-to docs for better support and training of new and junior team members. Also, peer review such documentation created by other team members and provide suggestions for improvement.

• Explore new automation opportunities for any repeated tasks to reduce human touch.

• Report on any challenges with internal processes, gaps, or any challenges with vendors and telcos.

Must Have:

1.) CCNP (R&S) Cert (CCNP certified with minimum 3 years of troubleshooting experience OR CCNA certified with min 5 years of troubleshooting experience)

2.) Cisco Routing and switching experience

3.) Troubleshooting experience/Break fixes

Network analyst experience

Nice to have:

Cisco Viptela SDWAN/Aruba SDWAN

Cisco ACI

Palo Alto firewalls

F5 load balancers

VMware NSX