NOC Engineer // 1 Position

The NOC Engineer is responsible for 24x7 NMS, Ticket management & all communications with Global Telecom client NOCs and Messaging Business Units. Spanning the entire system.

• Respond to Customer’s requests and inquiries
• Real-time monitoring on the Network Monitoring System (NMS)
• Compilation of data on respective alarms prior escalating such alarms as per severities with the relevant teams
• Preliminary investigation, classification, and acknowledgement of NMS alarms as per SOP
• Initial alarms trouble shooting (logs, traces, CDRs), alarm verifications, impact analysis and next actions
• Follow-up with responsible departments for resolving escalated/pending alarms.
• Logging of Tickets on the Ticketing System
• Updating of the Ticketing System with the latest progress on all tickets, following internal SOPs based on Industrial Standards
• Mastering the current inhouse developed applications and platforms to be able to provide immediate responses to platform related clients’ queries
• Preliminary investigation, classification, and acknowledgement to the respective clients, of all opened tickets as per SOP
• Initial support ticket trouble shooting (logs, traces, CDRs), ticket verifications, impact analysis and next actions
• Escalating Tickets to relevant teams at 2nd Line
• Follow up on Opened Tickets Internally as per SLAs till resolution
• Updating Customers with progress as per SLAs
• Tickets Reports and Analysis on Daily, Weekly and Monthly basis
• Handling and assistance in the execution of Change Requests including scheduling, process flow ownership, customer communication and execution
• Assistance in technical operations, maintenance, clients’ installations, and upgrades 24x7 activities, such as but not limited to:
• Assistance in UAT and migration
• System Health Monitoring
• Execution of minor / routine technical activates

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or equivalent
• Certification in Linux administration
• Minimum 2-year 24/7 NOC and Customer handling experience in IT, ISP or Telecom Operations
• Strong operational experience on Jira Service Desk & Zabbix and/or other ticketing and NMS platforms
• Protocol analysis and troubleshooting hands on skills using protocol analysers such as Wireshark
• Knowledge of Telecommunications protocols such as SS7/Diameter/SMPP/HTTP will be considered as an asset
• High Proficiency in English (both written and verbal)
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Willing to learn new technologies
• Able to adjust plans as necessary and provide alternative strategies to meet changing operational situations.
• Able to work on his/her own initiative
• Interpersonal skills
• Must be able and willing to work shifts (basis of 8 hours per shift with 24x7 coverage Monday to Sunday inclusive of public holidays)

• Ensure 99.9% uptime application
• Escalating issues 24/7 until resolution is met

• Corporate Office, I-9/3 Islamabad