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NOC Communications Specialist
  • 11-Feb-2026 to 25-Feb-2026 (UTC)
  • Harrisburg, PA, USA
  • Full Time
  • Long Term Contract Length
  • 40 Weekly Hours

Role Description:

End-user Support

- Answer inbound phone calls concerning network issues from Commonwealth employees, and LEC/Last User Contract, LUC, vendors.

- Creates and escalates Service Now trouble tickets to Engineers, tier two Commonwealth staff, and/or third-party service providers to ensure the quick resolution of IT/Network issues.

- Works with NOC T2 Engineers, Commonwealth staff and contracted personnel, and/or third-party providers as needed.

- Research and updates reference publications and diagnostic aids to seek information necessary to resolve end-user issues as needed.

- Follows IT Service Desk and Network Operator Knowledgebase procedures and makes recommendations when improvements are needed.

- Promptly and properly escalate high priority issues.

 

Monitoring & Maintenance

- Utilize network management tools, such as Solar Winds and Squared up, to monitor remote sites network and hardware.

- Actively monitors the status of Commonwealth networks and attached network assets using established tools and promptly initiates appropriate actions.

- Responds to outages and system failures using established escalation processes.

- Provide first-line investigation and diagnosis of network incidents, logging all details and prioritization of incidents.

- Escalate after hours incidents to staff for resolution.

- Promptly assign unresolved incidents to higher Tier support or LUC providers to coordinate restoration of service and obtain the necessary information for recording/tracking the outage or degradation of service.

- Coordinate with network staff and various vendors to assist with service restoration based on alarm conditions.

- Actively monitors the Service Now ticket queue.

- Monitors appropriate Commonwealth email accounts for any event messages and initiates action as needed.

- Proactively identifies and resolves problems.

 

Communication

- Acts as the primary network contact for Commonwealth employees and business partners outside of regular business hours.

- Perform Enterprise Incident communications using defined process and approved template.

- Monitors the network hotline during coverage hours.

- Issues network status updates using established procedures.

- Follows quality standards and displays strong customer service skills.

 

Routine Tasks

- Assists the network engineers and technicians with outstanding tasks.

- Updates network operation and knowledgebase documentation.

- Participates in disaster recovery.

- Completes assigned tasks.

 

Required Skills:

- Possesses excellent communication skills; both written and spoken.

- Ability to be clearly understood and has excellent phone etiquette.

- Ability to support end-users with varying IT skillsets.

- Ability to follow directions, especially when using established operation and knowledgebase documentation, and Commonwealth standard operating procedures.

- Ability to adapt to change.

- Detail oriented and resourceful.

- Excellent organizational skills.

- Ability to troubleshoot end-user issues and/or escalate as needed to ensure quick resolution.

- Experience with incident management, call tracking, and ticketing software.

- Preferred 2+ years previous systems administrator, help desk, and/or call center experience.

 

Fill the skill matrix below:

Skill

Required/Desired

Amount

Candidate's No. of years of experience

Previous systems administrator, help desk and/or call center experience

Highly desired

2

 

Experience with incident management, call tracking and ticketing software (preferably ServiceNow)

Required

 

 

Ability to support end users with varying IT skillsets

Required

 

 

Ability to troubleshoot end-user issues and/or escalate as needed for quick resolution

Required

 

 

Excellent communication skills (written and oral)

Required