Payment Markets Network Analyst

You will be responsible for monitoring and supporting our global payments network and should be familiar with maintaining high-availability networks, as well as providing timely resolutions and quality assurance for customers., Working closely with your peers, you will support a diverse range of incidents or issues in order to meet service availability SLAs. Working on a shift rota (12-hour day/night shifts) providing 24 x 7 x 365 operational support, you will be responsible for:

• Monitoring and management of the Global TNS Payments network.
• Responsible for monitoring the health of network connectivity and performance.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting Linux servers hosting our payment application tools.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting of the IP transport network.
• Logging all service incidents in the incident management system.
• Working all assigned tickets through to resolution, whilst providing timely escalation, communication, and updates throughout the lifecycle of the incident ticket.
• Working closely with internal technical support groups and third-party organisations in support of any given service incident.
• Post-incident impact analysis/support.
• Support of change management activities.

Required technical skills:

• Previous experience working in a network operations centre or technical support role.
• Experience with a ticketing system for fault tracking, for example ServiceNow or Salesforce.
• Experience with Linux operating systems and command-line interface.
• Experience with Fortinet - (FortiGates and FortiSwitch hardware, FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer management platforms).
• Understanding of SD-WAN solutions and cloud-based solutions (AWS, Azure).
• Experienced with Cisco routers and switches.
• Understanding IP routing protocols such as BGP, EIGRP, OSPF.

Required soft skills:

• Analytical approach to fault-finding with a proven ability to diagnose network problems.
• Tenacious and inquisitive in investigating and applying corrective action.
• Good personal organisational and developed time-management skills.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Professional working attitude - strong ability to communicate effectively with local and remote team members.

Desirable knowledge:

• Payments industry knowledge.
• TLS/SSL protocol understanding (SSL certification, key exchange, CA).
• Understanding of cellular radio (3G/4G) and roaming operations.
• Internet-based operations - DNS, CDN, VPN and IPSEC protocols.
• Working knowledge of network monitoring/event management systems, for example SolarWinds, Splunk, ThousandEyes.
• ITIL knowledge/foundation certification.

If you are passionate about technology, love personal growth and opportunity, come see what TNS is all about!