MS Server Engineer L2

As a MS Server Engineer (L2) at NTT DATA, you will play an essential role in maintaining our clients' IT infrastructure and systems. Your expertise will help keep everything running smoothly by proactively monitoring, identifying, investigating, and resolving technical incidents and problems. You'll be the go-to person to restore services and ensure our clients' satisfaction.

Your typical day involves managing work queues, addressing incidents and requests within agreed SLAs, and updating tickets with the actions taken. By identifying, analysing, and logging issues before they escalate, you'll be instrumental in maintaining service quality. You'll also collaborate closely with other teams and clients to provide second-level support, ensuring seamless communication and efficient problem resolution.

You will execute changes meticulously, understanding and mitigating risks, and contribute to the change management process with detailed documentation. Your role includes auditing incident and request tickets for quality, recommending improvements, and identifying tasks for automation to enhance efficiency. Additionally, you'll handle client escalations with professionalism and assist in disaster recovery functions and tests when necessary.

Working within our diverse and inclusive environment, you'll help drive the optimization of efforts by working with automation teams and supporting L1 Engineers. Your responsibility also extends to contributing to various projects, ensuring that all changes are approved, and maintaining a positive outlook even in high-pressure situations.

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 logs 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 focussed 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.

• Ability to work across various other resolver group (internal and external) like Service Provider, TAC, etc.

• Identifies problems and errors before they impact a client’s service.

• Provides Assistance to L1 Security Engineers for better initial triage or troubleshooting.

• 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 IT/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 include (but not limited to):

• CCNA certification or a minimum of 5 years working with CCNA.

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

• Microsoft Hybrid Admin on Prem or Cloud

• AWS Certified: Solutions Architect Associate

• Veeam Certified Engineer preferred.

• VMware certified Professional: DATA Centre Virtualization

• A+, N+ and S+

• Vendor certifications (e.g Dell)

Required experience:

• Moderate level years of relevant managed services experience handling cross technology infrastructure.

• 5-7 years of worked experience as a Server Engineer or in a similar role.

• Moderate level knowledge in ticketing tools preferably Service Now.

• Moderate level working knowledge of ITIL processes.

• Moderate level experience working with vendors and/or 3rd parties.