NOC Engineer

About us

National Grid is hiring a NOC Engineer *3rd SHIFT duty for our Critical National Infrastructure team in Syracuse, New York.

Every day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live. The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry.

To be successful we must anticipate the needs of our customers, reducing the cost of energy delivery today and pioneering the flexible energy systems of tomorrow. This requires us to deliver on our promises and always look for new opportunities to grow, both ourselves and our business.

Job Purpose

The NOC Engineer 1 position within UTOC (Unified Technology Operations Center) Team is the first point of contact answering phone calls and managing tickets. The person in this position is required to work in a team environment, under limited supervision and reports to the UTOC Manager. Due to the nature of UTOC's 24x7 support business, the Engineer 1 must be present in the UTOC at all times during the work shift.

UTOC Team provides communication, information, and resolution to internal customers. As the first point of contact for the customers; the UTOC Engineer 1's goal is to provide an efficient and effective response to customer issues and concerns by providing quick answers, escalations, straightforward resolutions, and accurate results.

Basic time allocation between position responsibilities is as follows:

Incoming Call /Email Handling and Ticketing - 50%

Respond, coordinate and follow-up on phone calls, email and web requests - 25%

Personal Training and Career development - 15%

Troubleshoot and analyze issues alongside higher tiers of support - 10%

Key Accountabilities

• Answer incoming calls in a pleasant helpful manner
• Escalate issues to Senior Staff/Shift Lead/Shift Manager
• Perform incident documentation by creating tickets. Incident documentation includes selection of the affected party, prioritization of the incident, filling in the mandatory fields such as type and time of incident and a brief description
• Update customers regarding the status of their inquiries or issues via telephone or email
• Research and resolve issues such as documentation requests, repeat issues, customer follow-up as appropriate, recommend any process improvements and provide shift turn over status
• Perform notification and escalation of the incident as documented in customer specific procedures in accordance with established guidelines and standards
• Be the front line to INOC's technical support staff members by coordinating and routing incidents, calls and tickets
• Respond to network events, customer telephone calls and e-mails (collectively referred to as "incidents")
• Monitor the alarm activity (includes multiple customers and INOC internal infrastructure) through the software monitoring system
• Track incidents where applicable to verify that response times and availability requirements established in the SLA are met
• Create and update tickets with 100% accuracy, following established procedures
• Use proper spelling, grammar, and context when updating tickets or sending emails
• Execute projects given by Management
• Personal Training and Career development
• Responsible for INOC's information security by preserving the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) of INOC's client and INOC's internal information assets in accordance with INOC's Information Security Management System

Qualifications

• Excellent customer service skills. Requires a minimum of 2 years of customer service experience
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills. Must be able to document issues with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to multitask in a fast paced and demanding environment
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, subnetting and the OSI network model

Additional Preferred:

• Telecommunication transport technologies
• Routing and Switching
• Fiber Optics (CWDM/DWDM)
• Wireless (Cellular/DAS, Microwave, Wi-Fi)
• Familiarity with server operating systems
• BS in a computer science or related field of study

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