Qualifications
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).
Required Experience:
- Entry-level experience or completion of the relevant intern program.
- Entry-level experience managing platforms including a combination of the following: Windows Server Administration, Linux Server Administration, Virtualization Administration, Server Hardware and Storage Administration.
- Basic knowledge of management agents, redundancy concepts, and products within the supported technical domain (such as Network, Data Centre, Telephony, Exchange, Storage, Cloud, Backup, etc.).
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.
Key Responsibilities:
- Monitors client infrastructure and solutions.
- Identifies problems and errors prior to or when they occur.
- Routinely identifies common incidents and opportunities for avoidance as well as general opportunities for incident reduction.
- Investigates first line incidents assigned and identifies the root cause of incidents and problems.
- Fulfils approved requests following agreed procedures.
- Provides telephonic or chat support to clients when required.
- Executes approved maintenance activities including patching and configuration changes.
- Follows the required handover procedures for shift changes to ensure service continuity.
- Reports and escalates incidents where necessary.
- Ensures the efficient and comprehensive resolutions of incidents and requests.
- Proactively identifies opportunities for work optimization.
- Updates existing knowledge articles or creates new ones.
- Identifies opportunities for work optimization including opportunities for automation of work, request fulfilment, incident resolution, and other general process improvement opportunities.
- 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.
Your day at NTT DATA
- The Cloud Managed Services Engineer (L1) is an entry level subject matter expert, responsible for providing a support and monitoring managed service for clients’ cloud-based environments.
- This role proactively identifies, investigates, and resolves cloud-based incidents, service requests and alerts.
- The primary objective of this role is to ensure zero missed service level agreement (SLA) conditions and focuses on first-line support for standard and low complexity incidents and service requests to ensure the smooth operation and optimization of clients’ cloud infrastructure and services.
- The Cloud Managed Services Engineer (L1) may also contribute to / support on project work as and when required.