Infrastructure Support Engineer – Tier 2 Cisco are always looking to identify dedicated people. If you are reading this posting then we may not have an open job right now, however it is highly likely we will in the future. If you are interested in working for Cisco in this capacity, then please submit your details and CV or resume against this requisition so that when a suitable vacancy arises a Cisco representative can contact you directly.
While reading our job description, please remember - we understand from experience that not ticking every box on the skills sections stops many from applying. You should apply if you feel you are the right person for the job and have the aptitude to learn and deliver results.
Who You'll Work With Collaboration Technology Group (CTG) is the technology tower that owns, develops, and supports the Webex suite of products – UCMC, Webex Calling DI, Webex MT and Contact Center. This role involves the upkeep and lifecycle management of the underlying Network, Compute and Storage infrastructure that supports Webex solution.
This platform provides the ability to customers to host their calling infrastructure on the cloud in a dedicated, multi-tenant or hybrid mode. This is a modular offering of Webex to suit the customer calling needs and designed to work with existing calling infrastructure.
Who You Are This is an extraordinary opportunity for someone with perseverance and an insightful view of the customer to hone their skills and advance their career providing value to customers while working with an industry leader in technology.
The ideal candidate demonstrates an aptitude and appetite for learning new technologies, evidenced by the ability to expand upon core knowledge.
This role focuses on device management, remediation, event analysis, and providing world-class customer service. Job responsibilities include troubleshooting, diagnosing, and resolving problems in sophisticated customer networks, working in a global 24x7 organization. An ideal candidate will have prior NOC/SOC experience, working against timelines in a fast-paced environment. A strong working understanding of network, compute, storage and virtualization platforms and technologies is vital for a successful candidate. Superb communication skills over video, web conference, and chat are required to succeed in the global Team.
What You'll Do • Ensure 24/7 availability of the production environment and daily operations.
• Assist in the the root cause analysis process and help with remediation of major issues.
• Ability to assist in a support capacity with problem and incident resolution and assume incident and problem ownership and accountability.
• Recreate Customer Issues for Technical Troubleshooting in the Operate Lab
• Assist with issues related to firmware and report issues and suggest enhancements.
• A basic understanding of the ITIL framework and its application in a production environment.
• Troubleshoot & resolve the incidents and problem tickets within SLA/SLO.
• Work with senior technical resources on complex issues and major incidents resolution.
• Develop and maintain a working knowledge of existing and new technologies and be able to tie the design and implementation of infrastructure to the managed components.
• Work with technical leaders to understand products and project requirements.
• Take ownership and accountability expectations in managing cases and customer situations.
• Serve as first point of escalation on all incidents.
Required Technical Skills/Qualifications
• You should have experience in Networking industry experience and knowledge of products and protocols.
• Experience in administration and troubleshooting of mixed environment (physical and virtual servers).
• Technical knowledge and experience in overlay technologies VXLAN, BGP EVPN, ACI, etc.
• Basic knowledge and understandings on L2 / L3 networking protocols and technologies (VPC, STP, HSRP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP)
• Basic understanding of ITIL framework (Event, Incident, Change, Service Request & Problem Management)
• Good analytical and troubleshooting skills with an initiative to drive problems to resolution.
Required Professional Qualifications
•
• 1-3 years of experience Routing and Switching technology at a Network Operations Centre or Technical Assistance Centre.
• .
• Ability to work with internal and external executive level customers with confidence while providing an exceptional experience.
Preferred Technical Skills/ Qualifications
• CCNP Routing & Switching certification is a plus.
• Certification on any Virtualization platform is a plus.
• Experience with scripting and automation (Python, Ansible, etc.)
• Prior working experience in Managed Services environment
• A strong understanding of the ITIL framework and its application in a production environment is preferrable.
Why Cisco We connect everything: people, processes, data, and things. We innovate everywhere, taking bold risks to shape the technologies that give us smart cities, connected cars, and handheld hospitals. And we do it in style with unique personalities who aren't afraid to change the way the world works, lives, plays and learns.
We are thought leaders, tech geeks, pop culture aficionados, and we even have a few purple haired rock stars. We celebrate the creativity and diversity that fuels our innovation. We are dreamers and we are doers.
We Are Cisco.
