Front Office Team Leader (NO Stream -DataCenter)
Front Office Team Leader (NO Stream -DataCenter) - Network Operations
Job Description
- Manage Front Office Department and activity and ensure that FO is operational and staffed 24/7.
- Ensure that FO department monitors the entire network element
- Ensure the follow up if the TT is opened by FO Engineers and reporting to NOC Management.
- Ensure handling the customer complaints within the agreed timeline.
- Ensure all alarms acknowledged in agreed time and for some of them based on OPI tickets created
- Ensure 7*24 monitoring and all TT are created within SLA for Data Centers (Infrastructure, Network, Servers, OS Win/Linux, Storages, VMs & related Service or Traffic).
- Ensure FO engineers to report to senior management the entire network problem according to SLA.
- Audit troubleshooting analyses report and preventive guidance.
- Follow the critical network issues and update to NOC manager.
- Effective follow up outages/issues with MCI Managers.
- Ensure first level of escalation for problem solving.
- Keep Network Operation management informed for network outage.
- Ensure all the customer complaints are checked and the responsibility to solve the problem is clearly defined.
- Make sure that FO engineers supervise the service during CR implementation, and verify the service status after CR finished.
- Ensure all network problems caused by site CR are properly followed with related teams inside and outside of company
- Check FO on a daily, weekly and monthly report and quality improvement. Suggest for changing the design of the report to make it better.
- Define and set individual and collective objectives (KPI’s) for the team, cascaded down from the general department objectives, within the performance review process.
- Evaluate individual and collective objective achievements in consultancy with the department manager.
- Optimize and improve the team performance in terms of organization and proper size
Requirements:
- Experience of network monitoring, dispatching.
- Familiar with equipment management and trouble handling and procedure of emergency.
- Telecom and IT knowledge.
- Very familiar with managed equipment and the existing architecture and configuration of the respective networks.
- Know how to diagnose and evaluate the level of complexity and urgency of a problem and make correlations.
- Performance management.
- Customer Expectation Management.
- Fault management.
- Good analytical and investigation technique.
- Detail knowledge in Data Center Standards, Infrastructure, Servers, OS Win/Linux, Storages, VMs & Network (Routing, Switching, Services or Traffics).
- Knowledge of Infrastructures Data Center (Cooling, Power, …)
- Knowledge in Network Management Systems.
- Knowledge about network operation processes and interfaces.
- Knowledge of network topology, traffic handling capabilities and traffic characteristics.
- Knowledge of network performance / configuration parameters and their interpretation and use.
- Analytical & Problem Solving.
- Persistence & Perseverance.
- Leadership capabilities
- Relationship Building.
- Resource management
- Rigor & Organization.
- Team Work.
- Ability to work under Pressure
- At least 5 years of related experience and BS degree in technical fields. In case of having an Associate Degree should have at least 9 years of related experience.
- Familiar with Telecom and IT network specially Data Center.
- Proficient English.
- Good knowledge of MS Office Pack (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Visio, etc.).
- Ability to work off hours depending on Network outages and the Customer requests.
- Full time availability (24x7) to support after office hours and be able to relocate with in the country.