Bank Of America Access Network Production Services Specialist 

United States, North Carolina, Raleigh 

254869351

Job Description:

Job Description:

This job is responsible for providing front-line support to end users, responding to issues related to incidents and problem management governance for multiple applications, and leading triage activities on all business impacting incidents. Key responsibilities include ensuring compliance with incident management and problem management policies and procedures, serving as a focal point for the customer, client, and associate experience, restoring complex production incidents under tight Service Level Agreements, and pursuing root cause and problem resolution follow ups.

The technology areas of focus for the Access Network Production Services Specialist includes end user networks, public and private transport (SD-WAN), and emerging technologies (switched-Ethernet, LTE, etc.), corporate/branch and building networking including Wireless. Production Services Specialists are expected to be well versed in numerous networking protocols, technologies and troubleshooting methodology, including the use of proactive and reactive tools. The work is always in alignment to the current and approved Network Services Standards, Incident and Problem Management Policies & Procedures, governance and management policies set forth by the firm.

Responsibilities:

• Leads production support triage efforts, manages bridge line troubleshooting, engages in technical research, and escalates issues to leadership as needed
• Ensures all impacts are accurately recorded and documented in the system of record, oversees that documents and wikis are updated and available for use during triage, and supports the documentation of application flows, upstream/downstream impacts during outages, the customer experience, and contacts for support needs
• Identifies and/or validates business impacts through interpretation of monitors, dashboards, and logs to communicate with leadership and vendors
• Manages activities to identify incident root cause, resolution, preventative actions, and change requests, and reports on incident data quality
• Promotes and enforces production governance during triage/testing and identifies production failure scenarios, vulnerabilities, and opportunities for improvement
• Serves as a subject matter expert for applications within a portfolio, leveraging extensive knowledge of application functionalities and application flows
• Assesses and prioritizes research requests, ad hoc reports, and offline incidents at the direction of senior team members and delegates work as needed to team members and peers
• Operational Support of End User Access Network
  • Cisco Wired/Wireless LAN, Palo Alto CloudGenix (SD-WAN)
• Technical areas of focus include but are not limited to end-user WAN, LAN, WLAN, SD-WAN, MPLS
• Identify service impact, interpret monitors, dashboards, and logs
• Work with senior team members to validate impacts and communicate all impacts to internal stakeholders and leadership
• Lead production support triage efforts for network infrastructure incidents, manage bridge line troubleshooting and appropriate team engagement, engage in technical research and troubleshooting, and escalate to next level of leadership as needed
• Provide status updates and technical detail for awareness communications, ensure accuracy of all communications sent, and ensure any necessary follow-ups are scheduled
• Identify possible production failure scenarios, vulnerabilities, and opportunities for improvement, and take ownership of escalation
• Participate in the documentation of application flows, upstream/downstream impacts during outages, the customer experience in failure scenarios, contacts for various support needs and ensures appropriate documents and wikis are up to date and available for use during triage
• Responsible for data quality and completion of incident tickets, including ensuring all impacts are accurately recorded and documented in the system of record
• Work ad-hoc reports and offline incidents at the direction of the senior team members or leadership

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years' of experience with Network technologies
• Experience with Network technologies
  • WiFi Technologies – Controllers, Access Points, Management Platforms, Configuration Orchestrator, Tunneling protocols – SSL/TLS, IPSEC, GRE, Network Resiliency – HA, local and regional failover, backups, WAN/MAN, Routing, Switching, Firewalls, LAN, TCP/IP, DNS, UDP, NAC, QoS, EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, Multicast, NHRP, ATM, PPP, IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, ACL, VPN, Building Wireless/Wi-Fi solutions (802.xx) and carrier “in-building” wireless services (DAS), Radio Frequency
• Experience with troubleshooting complex networking problems
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, Agile framework & SCRUM ceremonies
• Understand configuration management with tools such as Forward Networks and HPNA
• Experience using (both proactive and reactive) advanced tooling; Inclusive of but not limited to Netscout, Wireshark, Splunk, SevOne, HPNA, NNMI, OBM, IBM Watson, NSO, etc.
• General experience in Network Automation tools and processes
• Self-starter/self-directed, organized and detail oriented
• Strong technical acumen and analytical skills
• Excellent client interfacing skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to work with all levels of management
• Can align actions to business impact and service restoral
• Demonstrates ownership: Is accountable and can hold others accountable (professionally)
• Experience operating with colleagues across different time zones with a flexible approach to working hours (ability to work varied hours) to successfully interact and communicate on a global level

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in Networking-related disciplines within a design, implementation, or operations role
• Relevant Industry certifications in Network Technologies
• Cloud or SDN knowledge and experience
  • Experience with SDN; Cisco ACI, VMware NSX, Arista CloudVision
• Experience with automation tools such as Python, Ansible, YAML or Django, API calls (to ticketing systems and network devices), and frontend web development
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Experience of working within Financial services (Insurance, Banking, Investment banking)
• Experience with other network technologies
  • WAN, MAN, LAN, Optical, Routing, Switching, Proxy/Threat Prevention, DDI, Load Balancing, and AAA

• Agile Practices
• Architecture
• Data Management
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development

Skills:

• Adaptability
• Analytical Thinking
• Influence
• Production Support
• Risk Management
• Automation
• Collaboration
• Innovative Thinking
• Result Orientation
• Solution Design
• Business Acumen
• DevOps Practices
• Project Management
• Solution Delivery Process
• Stakeholder Management

Minimum Education Requirement:Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

1st shift (United States of America)