Lead I - Cloud Infrastructure Services at UST Global Inc in Riverwoods, Illinois

Job Description:

Role Proficiency: Level of Proficiency: Resolve enterprise trouble tickets within agreed SLA and raise problem tickets for permanent resolution and/or provide mentorship (Hierarchical or Lateral) to junior associates Outcomes: 1) Update SOP with updated troubleshooting instructions and process changes 2) Mentor new team members in understanding customer infrastructure and processes 3) Perform alert analysis for driving incident reduction 4) Escalate high priority incidents to customer and organization stakeholders for quicker resolution 5) Contribute to planning and successful migration of platforms 6) Resolve enterprise trouble tickets within agreed SLA and raise problem tickets for permanent resolution 7) Provide inputs for root cause analysis after major incidents to define preventive and corrective actions Measures of Outcomes: Measures: 1) SLA Adherence 2) Time bound resolution of elevated tickets - OLA 3) Manage ticket backlog timelines - OLA 4) Adhere to defined process Number of NCs in internal/external Audits 5) Number of KB articles created 6) Number of incidents and change ticket handled 7) Number of elevated tickets resolved 8) Number of successful change tickets 9) % Completion of all mandatory training requirements Outputs Expected: Resolution: Understand Priority and Severity based on ITIL practice, resolve trouble ticket within agreed resolution SLA Execute change control tickets as documented in implementation plan Troubleshooting: Troubleshooting based on available information from previous tickets or consulting with seniors Participate in online knowledge forums reference. Covert the new steps to KB article Perform logical/analytical troubleshooting Escalation/Elevation: Escalate within organization/customer peer in case of resolution delay. Understand OLA between delivery layers (L1, L2, L3 etc), adhere to OLA. Elevate to next level, work on elevated tickets from L1 Tickets Backlog/Resolution: Follow up on tickets based on agreed timelines, manage ticket backlogs/last activity as per defined process. Resolve incidents and SRs within agreed timelines. Execute change tickets for infrastructure Installation: Install and configure tools, software and patches Runbook/KB: Update KB with new findings Document and record troubleshooting steps as knowledge base Collaboration: Collaborate with different towers of delivery for ticket resolution (within SLA resolve L1 tickets with help from respective tower. Collaborate with other team members for timely resolution of tickets. Actively participate in team/organization-wide initiatives. Co-ordinate with UST ISMS teams for resolving connectivity related issues. Stakeholder Management: Lead the customer calls and vendor calls. Organize meeting with different stake holders. Take ownership for function's internal communications and related change management. Strategic: Define the strategy on data management, policy management and data retention management. Support definition of the IT strategy for the function s relevant scope and be accountable for ensuring the strategy is tracked, benchmarked and updated for the area owned. Process Adherence: Thorough understanding of organization and customer defined process. Suggest process improvements and CSI ideas. Adhere to organization s policies and business conduct. Process/efficiency Improvement: Proactively identify opportunities to increase service levels and mitigate any issues in service delivery within the function or across functions. Take accountability for overall productivity efforts within the function, including coordination of function specific tasks and close collaboration with Finance. Process Implementation: Coordinate and monitor IT process implementation within the function Compliance: Support information governance activities and audit preparations within the function. Act as a function SPOC for IT audits in local sites (incl. preparation, interface to local organization, mitigation of findings etc.) and work closely with ISRM (Information Security Risk Management). Coordinate overall objective setting preparation and facilitate process in order to achieve consistent objective setting in function Job Description. Coordination Support for CSI across all services in CIS and beyond. Training: On time completion of all mandatory training requirements of organization and customer. Provide On floor training and one to one mentorship for new joiners. Complete certification of respective career paths. Performance Management: Update FAST Goals in NorthStar, track, report and seek continues feedback from peers and manager. Set goals for team members and mentees and provide feedback Assist new team members to understand the customer environment Skill Examples: 1) Good communication skills (Written, verbal and email etiquette) to interact with different teams and customers. 2)** Modify / Create runbooks based on suggested changes from juniors or newly identified steps 3) Ability to work on an elevated server ticket and solve 4) Networking: a. Trouble shooting skills in static and Dynamic routing protocols b. Should be capable of running netflow analyzers in different product lines 5) Server: a. Skills in installing and configuring active directory, DNS, DHCP, DFS, IIS, patch management b. Excellent troubleshooting skills in various technologies like AD replication, DNS issues, etc. c. Skills in managing high availability solutions, like failover clustering, Vmware clustering etc. 6) Storage and Back up: a. Ability to give recommendations to customers. Perform Storage & backup enhancements. Perform change management. b. Skilled in in core fabric technology, Storage design and implementation. Hands on experience on backup and storage Command Line Interfaces c. Perform Hardware upgrades, firmware upgrades, Vulnerability remediation, storage and backup commissioning and de-commissioning, replication setup and management. d. Skilled in server, Network and virtualization technologies. Integration of virtualization, storage and backup technologies e. Review the technical diagrams, architecture diagrams and modify the SOP and documentations based on business requirements. f. Ability to perform the ITSM functions for storage & backup team and review the quality of ITSM process followed by the team. 7) Cloud: a. Skilled in any one of the cloud technologies - AWS, Azure, GCP. 8) Tools: a. Skilled in administration and configuration of monitoring tools like CA UIM, SCOM, Solarwinds, Nagios, ServiceNow etc b. Skilled in SQL scripting c. Skilled in building Custom Reports on Availability and performance of IT infrastructure building based on the customer requirements 9) Monitoring: a. Skills in monitoring of infrastructure and application components 10) Database: a. Data modeling and database design, Database schema creation and management b. Identify the data integrity violations so that only accurate and appropriate data is entered and maintained. c. Backup and recovery d.

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