Noc Lead

Since 1992, Ciena has been driven by a relentless pursuit of network innovation. We believe in a network that grows smarter, more agile, and more responsive every day. This means that when you digitally interact in your world - picking up the phone, streaming video, texting a friend or loved one - your interactions are being enabled by Ciena technologies. Ciena makes your social / entertainment / business existence REAL.
- Full supervising responsibilities of the Network Operations Centre supporting high Networks complexity.
- Supervise a team of Engineers and Technicians responsible for maintaining a 100% uptime for Network Centre infrastructure.
- Ensure Service target margins are achieved, contributing to Services level agreed, deliverables are met, and Services meet Customers expectations for quality and service.
- Interface with the Ciena Program Managers, Customer project management and Ciena Operations teams, Sales, Bid Management, Service Delivery Groups, and Finance to ensure Services deliverables and financial targets are met.
- Lead direct reports in day-to-day assignments.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

- The NOC Supervisor will be responsible for monitoring, configuring and supporting NOC infrastructure.
- The NOC Supervisor will be an escalation point for customer and vendor break/fix issues, with ultimate responsibility for incident tracking, resolution and reporting.
- The NOC Supervisor will assist in capacity planning and managing the team, will have hands-on tactical responsibilities.
- Duties and Responsibilities Maintain 100% SLA uptime of production and production supporting infrastructure.
- Responsible for incident management and issue resolution processes, including establishment of monitoring and management of alerts, escalations, and notifications.
- Ensure reporting accuracy and integrity of the Network Operations Centre (NOC) Infrastructure & software.
- Support maintenance of end-to-end fixed assets (servers, network devices, telecom devices, storage, licenses, etc.).
- Advocate and enforce adherence to compliances, as well as NOC technological architectural designs and standards.
- Responsible for all problem resolution and tracking of events using ticketing system. Lead root cause analysis by, and continuous improvement efforts of, the team.
- Lead the team ensuring Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) and compliance with customer Service Level Agreements (SLA), and NOC reliability, availability, preventive maintenance practices, and readiness of network components.
- Ensure that operation management policies, standards and procedures are properly develop, implemented, enhanced, and maintained; including training, incident reporting and resolution, issue management, metrics collection, performance reporting, trend analysis, and Continuity of Operations.
- Provides a leadership role for the work group through advanced knowledge.

CANDIDATE PROFILE
- Customer Oriented - Ability to actively partner with the customer
- Critical Thinking / Analysis - Sees multiple relationships; Capable of Analysing Multidimensional problems; Analyses "Ambiguous" Problems
- Judgment - Judges long term impacts and makes critical decisions with an understanding of risks and future implications
- Decisiveness - Capable of making "Risky" Decisions by balancing the Risks and acts without hesitation
- Leadership - Adaptive Leader that adjusts to the situation and is capable of delegating to promote responsibility within the team
- Organizational Awareness - Understand Organizational Climate, Culture and Underlying Issues to achieve required goals/targets
- Understands JIT (Just in Time) concepts as they pertain to Customer Operations
- Outstanding planning, scheduling, and coordination skills
- Superior Outsourcing Management ability
- A hands-on Manager that will manage by Team Building
- Is self-motivated and can work from high level departmental goals
- A team player that will work well in a cross functional team environment
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