About us

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.

Position Summary

The UTOC Engineer 1 position within UTOC (Unified Technology Operations Center) Team is the first point of contact related to network health management. 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 will be on site for network surveillance and event management.

UTOC Team provides communication, information, and resolution on all network related events to management and our internal customers. As the first point of event management; the UTOC Engineer 1’s goal is to provide an efficient and effective response to Network issues via triage, escalation, resolution, and follow-up. Previous experience in a NOC environment highly valued, but not required.

Responsibilities

• Ability to prioritize alarms and incidents to fulfil SLA commitments.
• Deliver proactive technology monitoring and implement corrective action to ensure optimal performance.
• To provide diagnostics and technical updates on incidents to other members of the operations and engineering teams and senior management.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes and sponsor the introduction of system changes to improve efficiency.
• Work well within our UTOC team and can work shift pattern.
• Proactively monitor technology solutions to ensure events are captured and resolved before they become an incident, whilst in the event of a major service outage, liaise with all relevant departments to undertake emergency fault diagnostics to resolution.
• Escalate issues to Senior Staff/Shift Lead/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 internal customers and management regarding the status of their inquiries or issues.
• 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.
• Be the front line to UTOC’s technical support staff by coordinating and routing incidents, calls and tickets.
• Monitor the alarm activity through the Network Management - 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
• Execute projects given by Management
• Personal Training and Career development

Knowledge & Requirements

• Requires a minimum of 2 years of network surveillance experience or degree in related fields of study.
• 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

More Information

Please be advised that this role will be based onsite at...

300 Erie Blvd W Syracuse NY

This role will involve shift work. Here are the 3 shifts we have...

1st Shift: 7AM-6PM EST
2nd Shift: 1PM-12AM EST
3rd Shift: 10PM-9AM EST

Furthermore you'll be expected to work 4 days a week in 10 hour shifts from Sunday to Wednesday or Wednesday to Saturday.

Please list in your cover letter and/or resume your prefrences when it comes to shits in order and also which schedule (between Sunday to Wednesday and Wednesday to Saturday) you like best.

We'll try to accomodate your preferences as best as we can but we ask that you also be flexible.

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