Transport​/Ip; Trip Noc Technician

Program Summary

Our customer is the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and acts as the provider of GIG/Defense Information System Network (DISN) services to its customers, the Department of Defense (DoD) and national security organizations. This position directly supports the DISA‑provided GIG capabilities and services in the 24x7 DISA Global Operations Center (DGOC).

Leidos Digital Modernization Sector and Global Solutions Management‑Operations II (GSMO‑II) has an opening in our TRANSPORT / IP (TRIP) NOC for a TRANSPORT / IP (TRIP) NOC TECHNICIAN at Scott AFB.

US Citizenship is required along with a current clearance. Our anticipated salary range for this role is $65,000 - $75,000.

• Create and update tickets utilizing ITSM.
• Monitor network events and element management failures in real‑time on a 24x7x365 basis across multiple monitoring tools.
• Incident correlation and fault analysis:
  Proactively analyze alarms, provide detailed analyses, leading to resolution of the alarm conditions, including filtering and correlating fault information, identifying the fault condition and its impacts, isolating root causes, and coordinating correction of fault situations.
• Notify necessary points of contacts based on essential or heightened awareness networks, circuits or location of incidents.
• Incident analysis (fault isolation):
  Support the fault isolation process; diagnose and troubleshoot using procedures to isolate where the fault occurs; identify failed network element(s) (systems, hardware, software, circuits, or facilities); activity includes testing, fault troubleshooting, fault localization, fault logging and assignment.
• Support all customers to include providing global situational awareness support.
• Fault correction:
  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:
  Restore networks and services to full operation; coordinate with other service providers to track service restoration and meet the DISN SLA and customer negotiated SLAs; identify failures that are attributable to different causes and impacts; conduct reroute and normalization of services and circuits due to outages, degradation, or authorized service interruptions (ASIs); reroute routine circuits within 24 hours of notification;
  
  document reroute in the CMDB; 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.
• Work directly with shift lead and O&M leadership for guidance.
• Incident escalation:
  Manage 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; evaluate and provide feedback for training, SOPs, and tools; assist in training Network controllers within O&M; effectively communicate 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 of several functions within the DISN: routers, switches, crypto devices, routing, DSN/DRSN, Video Services, Promina, CISCO, Juniper, MSPP, DWDM, optical switching, etc.

• Must have DoD‑8570 IAT Level 2 baseline certification (Security®+ CE, or equivalent) at start date.
• Ability to work in a 24/7 operation.
• 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,…