EOC Technical Specialist
Ashburn, VA, United States
ROLE DESCRIPTION:
Seeking an Enterprise Operations Center (EOC) technician. The candidate will have experience demonstrating comprehensive knowledge of key tasks on a large high visibility IT program. This role will be responsible for using Enterprise Monitoring tools to identify and escalate data center infrastructure incidents through multiple communications mechanisms. This position supports evenings and weekends as needed. Key duties include:
Works on high visibility or mission critical aspects of a given program and performs all functional duties independently
Providing 24x7x365 support, resource will provide a central point for identification, troubleshooting and escalation of incidents that arise in all environments. Provide support on Incident bridge calls with emphasis on restoring service to users as quickly as possible, troubleshoot toward the resolution of incidents, and manage incidents to completion.
Compiles incident timelines, supports change activities, and records incidents in to the ITSM platform BMC Remedy.
Create, update and maintain Standard Operating Procedures, Technical User Guides, Troubleshooting Guides, and Customer Contact Database. Conduct quarterly reviews of all documents.
Populate Knowledge Management Database with known troubleshooting procedures. Develop lessons learned on all escalated incidents.
May supervise others.
Monitor all applications and systems in production, development, and test environments at all Data Centers.
Coordinate, escalate, and/or resolve operational system/application/network events that have the potential of negatively impacting system and application availability to the user community.
Escalate incidents in accordance with established client escalation procedures.
Identify and respond to potential problems or trends before failure or degradation occurs. Provide information on scenarios for monitoring, automation, and adjusted threshold levels to allow appropriate action to be taken before adverse impact occurs. Develop and/or enhance processes to detect and prevent future incidents and allowing for quicker diagnosis and resolution if further incidents occur.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
3-10 years of experience and a B.S. degree. Bachelor of Science (BS) can be substituted with an additional 4 years of related experience
3 years of experience supporting incident, problem, and change management activities for a large government agency
2 years of experience working on high visibility or mission critical aspects of a given program and performing all functional duties independently
3 years of experience using the following or similar tools: Fault and Performance monitoring and reporting tools such as IBM Netcool Omnibus, AppDynamics, HP Operations Manager
3 years of experience using incident management tools such as BMC Remedy
3 years of operational experience within a large-scale, complex Manager of Manager (MoM) type monitoring environment
3 years of experience with supporting one or more of the following Data Center technologies: Java App Servers, VMWare, Oracle, Unix/Linux, or IBM technologies like MQ, AIX, DB2/UDB
Strong verbal communication skills.
US Citizenship
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