Monday, August 10, 2009

"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.”

I came accross an interesting article listing the top ten reasons you should hate your job, and according to a recent poll they are listed below:

1. You have a boss.
2. You earn a limited amount of money.
3. Your only income stream is your salary.
4. You don’t have control of your life.
5. You have to follow a fixed work schedule.
6. Your co-workers are fools.
7. You have to travel for hours to and from your work.
8. You boss’ problems become your own, and you no longer care about them.
9. You cannot choose what you do each day. You boss tells you what to do.
10. You have to pay so much taxes that doesn’t make sense.

I challenge you to come up with more reasons to hate your job. It might just motivate you to do something about it. Like maybe try and get a new one, maybe something more refreshing, or with more money. Or hell like the rest of the country in this economy just something to get us all by.

OPEN JOBS (each new position begins in purple)
NOC Engineer. Successful candidates will manage the Commercial operations network by monitoring and troubleshooting problems as they occur and initiating triage when necessary.

Duties:
•Monitor the network to identify potential problems using monitoring tools like Netcool
•Troubleshoot problems remotely as they occur on the network by providing Tier II support
•Escalate problems to Sr. Network Engineers that cannot be fixed remotely

The ideal candidate will use their experience, to not only meet the expectations of our client, but to reach beyond our client’s expectations.

The ideal candidate will have at least 3 years of hands-on experience with at least 4 of the following:
• Experience working in a NOC environment (preferably in optical transport)
• Experience with Cell Tower Backhaul
• Exposure to the design and deployment of an optical network
• Experience with Tier II support
• Ability to communicate effectively and with business savvy to negotiate and broker compromise.

Other Requirements include:
• Fluent English
• Legal to work in the U.S.

Network Operations Center Technician. Successful candidates will open tickets and work to troubleshoot issues related to the network. This person will use their prior knowledge to mitigate network events and manage the escalation through resolution. The candidate will be responsible for:

• Surveillance of Commercial Operations Network using all applicable NOC Network Management Tools.
•Performs initial troubleshooting, problem analysis and isolation of network events in accordance with escalation guidelines.
•Performs tracking and management of network events to resolution in accordance with standard Event Management Procedures
•Tracks and supports Network Change Control schedules and activities
•Supports and executes Network Change Control functions for Regional Operations Groups under the direction of a NOC Team Leader.
• Performs administrative tasks for NOC Network Management Tools, contact, escalation and mailing lists and other documentation or systems under the direction of NOC Team Leader.
• Provides input and feedback for the use and optimization of NOC Network Management Applications/Tools (Netcool and Remedy) as well as NOC processes and procedures. Produces, maintains and updates written procedures.

The ideal candidate will use their experience, to not only meet the expectations of our client, but to reach beyond our client’s expectations.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with the following:
• Between two and five years working in a Network Operations Center environment
• Knowledge of optical transport technologies and products such as Nortel, Cisco, Alcatel Lucent, Infinera, and Fuji.
• Knowledge of and ability to troubleshoot DWDM, Sonet technology, network lines ranging from T1’s to OC192’s
• Effective oral and written communication skills

Preferred Skills:
• Degree from four year college or technical school
• Certifications in Optical technology
• Exposure to cellular or wireless technology and products

Unix Systems Administrator. A successful candidate will utilize their system knowledge to troubleshoot Solaris network and system issues as a part or the High Speed Data and Voice over IP Provisioning support group.

The ideal candidate will use their experience, to not only meet the expectations of our client, but to reach beyond our client’s expectations.

The ideal candidate will have the required years of hands-on experience with at least 2 of the following technologies:

• Intermediate level experience with Solaris (5 years)
• Intermediate level experience scripting in UNIX with Shell or with Perl (4 years)
• Basic understanding of Veritas (4 years)
• Basic understanding of Oracle applications (4 years)
• Some level of training in BEA Weblogic (3 years)

Preferred skills include:

• Scripting in Perl, KSH, and BASH
• Solaris system troubleshooting
• Solaris network troubleshooting
• Oracle database knowledge
• Veritas HA knowledge


Other Requirements include:

• Fluent English
• Legal to work in the U.S.

Python Applications Developer. Successful candidates will work closely with the our client to support their initiatives through completing the following duties:

• Perform backup administration (verify network backups, troubleshooting)
• Perform event impact analysis (use CDRs for determining impact)
• Generate ad-hoc management reports
• Generate capacity measurement reports
• Perform daily monitoring and troubleshooting of voice tools/apps servers


The ideal candidate will use their experience, to meet and reach above the expectations of our client. The ideal candidate will be proficient with Python coding language and have at least two of the have at least 3 years of hands-on experience with at least 2 of the following:

• Programming experience
• Unix systems administration experience
• Experience in production or operations environments
• SQL Experience
• Experience with web technologies such as HTML


Other preferred skills include:

• Networking experience
• Java programming experience
• Postgres SQL experience
• Bachelor's Degree

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