NTT DATA, Inc.Cloud Engineer
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Your day at NTT DATAAs a Cloud Managed Services Engineer (L2) at NTT DATA, you'll play a critical role in ensuring our clients' cloud infrastructure runs smoothly. You'll proactively monitor, identify, investigate, and resolve cloud-based incidents and service requests. Applying your technical expertise, you'll handle second-line support for incidents and requests with medium complexity, ensuring we meet our service level agreements (SLAs).
Your daily activities will include monitoring work queues, resolving incidents in a timely manner, and updating tickets with the tasks performed. You'll identify and analyze issues before they impact our clients, provide second-level support, and work closely with other teams and clients to extend necessary support. Your role is vital in executing changes with identified risks and mitigation plans, ensuring the smooth operation of our clients' cloud infrastructure.
You'll also be responsible for leading client escalations for operational issues, contributing to the change management process, and ensuring all changes have proper approvals. Additionally, you'll plan and execute approved maintenance activities, audit and analyze incident tickets for quality, and produce trend analysis reports to identify tasks that can be automated, reducing ticket volumes and optimizing effort.
Collaboration is at the heart of what we do. You'll work with automation teams to optimize efforts, coach the Service desk and L1 teams on technical and behavioral skills, and establish monitoring for client infrastructure. Your proactive approach will ensure that problems and errors are identified before impacting clients, creating a positive experience throughout their journey with us.
Key Responsibilities:
Proactively monitors the work queues.
Performs operational tasks to resolve all incidents/requests in a timely manner and within the agreed SLA.
Updates tickets with resolution tasks performed.
Identifies, investigates, analyses issues and errors prior to or when they occur, and log all such incidents in a timely manner.
Captures all required and relevant information for immediate resolution.
Provides second level support to all incidents, requests and identifies the root cause of incidents and problems.
Communicates with other teams and clients for extending support.
Executes changes with clear identification of risks and mitigation plans to be captured into the change record.
Follows the shift handover process highlighting any key tickets to be focused on along with a handover of upcoming critical tasks to be carried out in the next shift.
Escalates all tickets to seek the right focus from CoE and other teams, if needed continue the escalations to management.
Works with automation teams for effort optimization and automating routine tasks.
Coaches Service desk and L1 teams for technical and behavioral skills.
Establishes monitoring for client infrastructure.
Identifies problems and errors before they impact a client’s service.
Leads and manages all initial client escalation for operational issues.
Contributes to the change management process by logging all change requests with complete details for standard and non-standard including patching and any other changes to Configuration Items.
Ensures all changes are carried out with proper change approvals.
Plans and executes approved maintenance activities.
Audits and analyses incident and request tickets for quality and recommends improvements with updates to knowledge articles.
Produces trend analysis reports for identifying tasks for automation, leading to a reduction in tickets and optimization of effort.
May also contribute to / support on project work as and when required.
May work on implementing and delivering disaster recovery functions and tests.
Performs any other related task as required.
Knowledge and Attributes:
Ability to communicate and work across different cultures and social groups.
Ability to plan activities and projects well in advance, and takes into account possible changing circumstances.
Ability to maintain a positive outlook at work.
Ability to work well in a pressurized environment.
Ability to work hard and put in longer hours when it is necessary.
Ability to apply active listening techniques such as paraphrasing the message to confirm understanding, probing for further relevant information, and refraining from interrupting.
Ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
Ability to place clients at the forefront of all interactions, understanding their requirements, and creating a positive client experience throughout the total client journey.
Academic Qualifications and Certifications:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification in Information Technology/Computing (or demonstrated equivalent work experience).
Certifications relevant to the services provided (certifications carry additional weightage on a candidate’s qualification for the role).
Relevant certifications such as (but not limited to) -
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
AWS Certified: Solutions Architect Associate
Veeam Certified Engineer
VMware certified Professional: DATA Centre Virtualization
Zerto, pure, vxrail
Google Cloud Platform (gcp)
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (oci)
Required experience:
Experienced with Azure, AWS and/or GCP cloud
Moderate level of relevant managed services experience.
Moderate level of knowledge in ticketing tools preferably Service Now.
Moderate level of experience managing platforms including a combination of the following: Windows Server Administration, Linux Server Administration, Virtualization Administration, Server Hardware and Storage Administration.
Moderate level of knowledge of management agents, redundancy concepts, and products within the supported technical domain (i.e. Network, DATA Centre, Telephony, Exchange, Storage, Cloud, Backup, etc.).
Workplace type:
On-site Working
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