4 to 7 years’ experience in a similar role as L2 operations lead and SME.
Network L2 Ops and SME
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
- Own end-to-end L2 network operations (incident, problem & change management)
- Act as primary escalation points for major incidents and critical outages
- Ensure SLA / KPI adherence and drive service improvements
- Lead daily operations calls, reviews, and reporting governance
- Drive root cause analysis (RCA) and implement preventive actions for key outages
- Coordinate with L1, L3, vendors, and cross-functional teams
- Manage team workload, prioritization, and task allocation
- Ensure process compliance (ITIL) and audit readiness
- Drive automation, documentation, and knowledge management
- Provide stakeholder communication & status reporting
- Provide expert support for routing & switching (BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VLANs, etc.)
- Troubleshoot complex data network issues and performance bottlenecks
- Support design validation & implementation for network changes
- Periodic managed device health check ups governance
- Change implementation to maintain SoW stated IOS and device compliance versions
- Proactive risk management with possible mitigations
- Extensive OEM coordination proactively for managed product life cycle management
- Work on LAN/WAN, SD-WAN, VPN, firewall coordination with SME’s in team
- Conduct deep-dive RCA for recurring incidents and top – talker analysis
- Result orientation on recurrence INC reduction
- Monitoring noise reduction
- Effective in event correlation and logics enablement with tools team
- Review configs and ensure network optimization & stability
- Support capacity planning & network enhancements in line with business and stakeholder needs
- Mentor L1 teams with technical guidance
- SOP / knowledge articles and documentation reviewer for seamless team operations
- Inventory periodic review and CMDB coordination with respective team
- Active participant with business and customer BCP team and periodic BCP and DR drill, documentation of outcome
- Experience and Flexibility to support On-Call and critical outage handling skills
Good to have
- ITIL process knowledge and foundation certified
- Experience and good knowledge with infra monitoring tools (SolarWinds, etc.)
- Automation exposure and transformation mindset and adoptability for any automation initiatives
- Strong stakeholder communication in business language
Documentation & reporting discipline