Job Vacancy 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 the TNS Global NOC. You will be part of an operations 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 the TNS customer network environment (providing a robust global network for the payments processing of thousands of customers) - and should be conversant in the role of upkeeping high availability networks, along with providing timely resolutions and quality assurance for customers.

Responsibilities

Working closely with your peers and teams in the UK, the US and Asia, you will provide a first point of contact for fault support and assistance - to meet the expectations of our customers and their defined SLAs on a 12x7x365 basis.

•Proactive monitoring and management of the TNS payments network.•Responsibility for monitoring the health of customer network connectivity, performance.•Logging of all service incidents in the incident management system.•Working all assigned tickets through to resolution, whilst providing timely updates and escalations through the lifecycle of the incident ticket.•Working closely with internal technical support groups and 3rd party organisations in support of service incidents.•Post incident impact analysis and support.•Provision of clear, consistent, and regular communication with internal and external customers.•Support change management activities across the TNS and partner networks.

Qualifications

Required skills

•Experience in a Technical Support/Network Operations environment.•Experience with a ticketing system for fault tracking, for example Remedy or Salesforce.•Experience / knowledge of IP networking and WAN network protocols.•Experience and or knowledge with DSL, Wireless and Ethernet circuit technologies.•Understanding of GPRS, LTE and VPN technologies.•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.

Desirable skills

•A working knowledge of the ITIL framework, or ITIL foundation certification.•Experienced with the following hardware, OS and networking protocols: Cisco, Digi, Virtual Access, Linux, IPSEC, VPN.•Experience with Fortinet products (FortiGates and FortiSwitches)•Understanding of SD-WAN solutions and cloud-based solutions such as AWS and Azure.

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.