Network Operations Engineer - Associate Manager

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The Work:

Provide operational leadership and resource management for the Network Operations team. Day-to-day support for multiple clients within multiple datacenter and Cloud environments, provide Outage Resolution Support.

• Investigation of outage cause, impact on user, and resolution.
• Facilitate outage investigation/restoration of service to Production Environment
• Organize meetings to facilitate the investigation of outages/problems and the subsequent restoration of service
• Communicate status of outages
• Provide periodic updates to management and the client teams on the status of any error resolution activities during an outage
• Communicate and work with the client teams as necessary to resolve errors

Other responsibilities may include:

• Establish, monitor and evaluate system metrics to enhance team performance and efficiency adherent to organizational and client SLA and OLA requirements.
• Provide operational support, ensuring systems and devices are online and available; this includes non- business hours escalation on-call support
• Participate in group capability, staffing requirements, and potential new deal reviews.
• Assist in resourcing, scope of work, and reporting discussions.
• Provide operational guidance to Network operations Engineers and other Operations staff.
• Provide ongoing management and/or improvement of activities related to a part or to the whole of a technical infrastructure (e.g. information systems, security, telecommunications networks, etc.) as well as evolving client requirements.
• Help formulate Best Practices and deploy standard repeatable build outs and security tools management processes.
• Manage relationship with equipment/application/tool vendors and ensure they are meeting all service levels and responsibilities.
• Plan and implement medium to high-risk changes on production security systems.
• Analyze and assess the impact and risk of high- risk changes on production and non- production network environments. Perform as an internal escalation resource for higher level issues.
• Analyze system performance indicators and recommend improvement actions
• Monitor vendors release notes and plan necessary patching and upgrades of various network equipment and tools.

This role will require 2-3 days per week at the local office. The preferred hiring locations for this role are Cincinnati, OH; Columbus, OH; and Tampa, FL but may consider qualified applicants in other targeted locations.

Heres what you need:

• Minimum of 5 years in managing / leading teams, resource management
• Minimum of 5 years experience on a network operations/engineering team
• Minimum of 5 years Fortinet/ Cisco/ Palo Alto Firewall support
• Minimum of 5 years Load balancing
• Minimum of 5 years Cloud Network Support
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum of 12 years) work experience. (If Associate's degree, must have minimum of 6 years experience.)

Bonus Points if:

• Certifications are a plus; CCNA, CCNP, Cloud Specialized.

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Maryland, New York or Washington as set forth below.
We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

Information on benefits is here.

Role Location Annual Salary Range

California $73,000 to $192,600

Colorado $73,000 to $166,400

District of Columbia $77,700 to $177,200

New York $67,600 to $192,600

Maryland $67,600 to $154,100

Washington $77,700 to $177,200

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