Network Technician

Responsible for assisting with the following duties:
•Create and update tickets utilizing Service Now.
•Monitor network events and element management failures in real-time on a 24x7x365 basis across multiple monitoring tools.
•Incident Correlation and Fault Analysis:
o Proactively analyze alarms
o Provide detailed analyses leading to resolution of the
alarm conditions, including filtering and correlating fault
information
o Identifying the fault condition and its impacts
o Isolating root causes
o Coordinating correction of fault situations regardless of
the fault in the infrastructure.
•Notify necessary points of contacts based on essential or heightened awareness networks, circuits or location incidents.
•Incident Analysis (Fault Isolation):
o Support the fault isolation process
o Diagnoses and troubleshoot utilizing procedures to
isolate where the fault occurs
o Identify failed network element(s) i.e. systems,
hardware, software, circuits, or facilities.
o Activities include: testing, fault troubleshooting, fault
localization, fault logging and assignment
•Support all customers to include providing global situational awareness support.
•Fault Correction:
o Correct/replace faulty network elements, coordinating
with other service providers as necessary.
•Verify that service has been restored upon resolution of all customer-initiated tickets.
•Network/Service Restoration:
o Restore networks and service to full operation
o Coordinate with other service providers as necessary to
track service restoration and meet the DISN SLA and
customer negotiated SLAs.
o Identify failures that are attributable to a different
causes and impacts
o Conduct reroute and normalization of services and circuits due to outages, degradation, or Authorized Service Interruptions (ASIs).
o Reroute routine circuits within 24 hours of notification
o Documenting reroute in the configuration management database (CMDB).
o Provide updates on outages from technicians and/or
government incident tickets until a resolution or path to
resolution is identified and documented in ticket.
•Provide 24/7/365 sustainment support for outages, degradation of services and Tier 1/Tier 2 support
•Provide timely situational awareness to leadership and the impacted community within discovery and ticket creation using approved communication methods as outlined.
•Works directly with Shift lead and O&M leadership for guidance
•Incident Escalation:
o Fault escalation, customer coordination and communications, and ticket system updates and status reporting utilizing procedures between Tier I and Tier II.
•Record, assess, track, and monitor incident tickets escalated to operational infrastructure.
•Demonstrate knowledge of training, standard operating procedures, and tools within O&M.
•Evaluates and provides feedback for training, standard operating procedures, and tools.
•Assist in training Network controllers within O&M.
•Effectively communicates with the O&M team and the customer.
•Provide technical advice and insight to peers and customers to assist in resolution of complex issues.
•Demonstrate proficiency in several functions within the DISN: routers, switches, crypto devices, routing, DSN/DRSN, Video Services, Promina, CISCO, Juniper, MSPP, DWDM, Optical Switching, etc.
Basic Qualifications:
•Must have DoD-8570 IAT Level 2 baseline certification (Security+ CE, or equivalent) by start date.
•Ability to work in a 24/7 operation NOC environment.
•Experience with one or more of the following: alarm surveillance, fault management, LAN maintenance, performance management.
•Expertise in three or more of the following: routers, switches, crypto devices, routing, DSN/DRSN, Video Services, Promina, CISCO, Juniper, MSPP, DWDM, Optical Switching.
•General understanding of network topologies, both transport and IP.
•Currently possess an active Secret security clearance and be able to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret security clearance.​

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Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms.  If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:
-Medical, dental & vision
-Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
-401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
-Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
-Short and long-term disability
-Health Spending Account (HSA)
-Transportation benefits
-Employee Assistance Program
-Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

-This position requires an active DoD Clearance (Secret, Top Secret, Top Secret/SCI) or the ability to be obtain an (Interim Secret, Interim Top Secret)
-Because an active or interim DoD clearance is required, U.S. Citizenship is required