Network Analyst

Job Title: Network Analyst

Location: Sheffield

Salary: Competitive

Job type: Full Time - Permanent.

An extraordinarily talented group of individuals work together every day to drive TNS' success, from both professional and personal perspectives. Come join the excellence!

Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for you to become an integral member of TNS’ global network support function. You will be part of an operations support team providing first line support, partner escalation and incident management across the TNS network. You will be responsible for the monitoring and support of our global payments network - and should be geared to the role of upkeeping high availability networks, along with providing timely resolutions and quality assurance for customers.

Responsibilities

Working closely with your peers you will aid a diverse range of incidents or issues in order to meet service availability SLAs. Working on a shift rota (12-hour day / night shifts) providing 24 x 7 x 365 operational support, you will be responsible for:

• Monitoring and management of the Global TNS Payments network.
• Responsible for monitoring the health of network connectivity and performance and logging of all service incidents in the incident management system
• Monitoring and troubleshooting of Linux servers hosting our payment application tools.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting of the IP network our payments service resides on, with focus on customer and partner connectivity.
• Working all assigned tickets through to resolution, whilst providing timely escalation, communication, and updates through the lifecycle of the incident ticket
• Engagement and management of 3rd party organisations in support of any given service incident
• Post incident impact analysis / support
• Support of change management activities
• Working closely with internal technical support groups in the effective management of ongoing service incidents

Qualifications

• Experience with a ticketing system for fault tracking, for example Remedy or Salesforce.
• Working knowledge of network monitoring / event management systems, for example SolarWinds, Splunk, Thousand Eyes.
• Experience with Linux operating systems and command line interface
• Experienced with Cisco routers and switches - able to log on and perform fault diagnosis
• Understanding of typical IP routing protocols, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, along with VPN and IPSEC protocols
• Analytical approach to fault-finding with proven ability to diagnose network problems
• Tenacious and inquisitive in investigating and applying corrective action
• Good personal organizational and developed time management skills
• Ability to work under pressure
• Professional working attitude - strong ability to communicate effectively with local and remote team members
• Experience in a Technical Support/Net Ops environment

Desirable skills

• ITIL knowledge / foundation certification
• TCPDump / Wireshark packet capturing
• Experience with the following: Fortinet - FortiGates and FortiSwitches, understanding of SDWAN solutions, AWS, Azure, Netreo monitoring tools

If you are passionate about technology, love personal growth and opportunity, come see what TNS is all about!

TNS is an equal opportunity employer. TNS evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; IT Support Technician, 2nd Line Support Engineer, 2nd Line Support, 2nd Line Technical Support Advisor, 2nd Line Technical Support Analyst, IT Services, IT Desk Support, IT Support Technician, 2nd Line Support Engineer, IT Helpdesk Support, Helpdesk Support Technician, Helpdesk Analyst, IT Support Engineer, IT Desktop Support, Support Technician will also be considered for this role.