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Network Operations Technical Analyst

Employer
Bank of America Corporation
Location
Chester, United Kingdom
Salary
Competitive with Benefits
Closing date
Apr 5, 2023

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Job Function
Other
Industry Sector
Finance - General
Employment Type
Full Time
Education
Bachelors
This position will interface directly with internal stakeholders and external suppliers/providers, architecture, product engineering, product management, and business management. At times, they may interface with various levels of senior management. Strong communication and problem-solving skills are a must. The candidate must be able to work on their own and successfully in team settings in various sizes and locations. Adherence and use of standards, product sets, templates, systems, and artifacts are important to the success of the individual, the department, and the firm at large.

The Team:

The team consists of 25 Network Operations engineers, conversant in a range of Data, Security, Voice and Collaboration technologies. The team are based in 3 locations within the UK - Chester, London and Camberley although this specific role is Chester based. The team has a close working relationship that supports each other and is considered a high performing team. The team is also part of a follow the sun model so this involves interaction with our global colleagues in the AMRS and APAC regions (specifically the US, Singapore and India).

Core Skills:
  • Operational support of network environments:
  • Switching & Routing (underlay and overlay)
  • Firewall, Traffic Management, Content Inspection, and DN
  • Identify service impact, interpret monitors, dashboards, traffic captures, and logs using:
  • Splunk, SevOne, IBM Watson AI Ops, Wireshark, NetScout, and Gigamon
  • Cisco Nexus / ACI, Arista CloudVision, VMware vSphere
  • Identify possible production failure scenarios through eyes on glass monitoring of IT infrastructure Services
  • React to the failure according to business impact, and communicates with management and technical escalation
  • Initiate 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
  • 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
  • Promote and enforce production governance during triage/testing and fix efforts, exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action
  • Adhere to design standards and global design authority processes and procedures
  • Assemble professional documents based on existing templates and ability to provide accurate work descriptions with assumptions, and caveats.

Required Skills:
  • Basic understanding of Internet protocols and networks: WAN, LAN, TCP/IP, DNS, UDP, IPv4, IPv6, BGP, OSI layers 1-7
  • Basic understanding of troubleshooting methodologies for networking problems
  • Basic understanding of Network Automation tools and processes
  • Self-starter/self-directed, organised and detail oriented
  • Strong technical acumen and analytical skills
  • Excellent client interfacing skills
  • Good verbal and written communication skills
  • Experience aligning actions to business impact and service restoral
  • Demonstrates ownership: Is accountable and can hold others accountable (professionally)
  • Ability to operate 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 Skills:
  • Experience in Networking-related disciplines within a design, implementation, or operations role
  • Basic understanding of JIRA, Confluence, Agile framework & SCRUM ceremonies
  • Relevant Industry certifications in Network Technologies
  • Cloud or Software Defined Networks knowledge and experience
  • Experience with SDN; Cisco ACI, VMware NSX, Arista CloudVision
  • Experience with SDWAN, preferred if on CloudGenix (Palo Alto)
  • 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
  • Proxy/Threat Prevention, DDI, Load Balancing, and AAA

Bank of America:

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It's important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

We are an equal opportunities employer, and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, responsibilities for dependants, physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements. As part of our standard hiring process to manage risk, please note background screening checks will be conducted on all hires before commencing employment.

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