Why We Work at Dun & Bradstreet
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About the role
Dun & Bradstreet ECC (Enterprise Control Center) Operations provides 24x7 Level 1 support for the organization’s global production applications monitoring, incident handling, escalations and service restorations.
This role is responsible for performing proactive monitoring of application alerts and events, follow standard ITIL Incident and Problem processes, escalations procedures, review application run books and execute routine service restoration steps to manage and resolve incidents.
Interact with peers, application support teams, engineering teams, service desk and infrastructure NOC to facilitate effective handling of service incidents and requests.
Responsibilities
- Perform proactive documented checkouts and monitoring to avoid service outages or limit their impact. Fault isolation, notifications, and escalations to restore service as necessary.
- If an issue cannot be resolved within the L1 team, manage the escalation process to L2 (paging to the correct team, ensuring an on-call engineer responds and check-in with them on resolution progress
- Supporting Issue Bridges where multiple teams are needed to resolve an important issue. Setting up the call, paging the required participants, taking timeline notes for Incident Reviews, sending Issue Status updates to Senior Executives
- Review Runbooks and pre-deployment application rollout activities that ensure health monitoring, production readiness and understanding of established recovery procedures.
- Awareness and support for implementation of scheduled and CAB approved changes.
- Support for pro-active maintenance activities such as validating failover recoveries, release deployments and routine activities required to keep the infrastructure in good health
- Demonstrates a proactive desire to learn and contribute to improvement initiatives
Skills
- Primary degree in Computer Science or related field, with 2-4 years relevant industry experience
- A+, CCNA, MCP, Linux Certifications, etc. are valued.
- Solid working knowledge of application fundamentals and functions, Windows OS, Linux, HP UX, Big IP Load Balancers.
- Good knowledge of operations procedures, application troubleshooting, security principles.
- Working knowledge of Web based services that included Apache, Jboss, Tomcat, IIS, and restoration of their services.
- Strong customer service and communications skills.
- Comfortable working within a highly collaborative team environment as well as an independent performer is essential.
- Weekend and off hours shift work and support is required.
- Strong understanding and working experience with ITIL incident and problem management processes and analytical skills.
- Excellent English written and verbal skills and ability to succinctly summarize key technical findings and root cause analysis.
- Ability to multitask and prioritize with a high attention to detail.
- Experience with System Monitoring and Automation is preferred
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What We Do
For almost 200 years, Dun & Bradstreet has helped clients and partners grow and thrive through the power of data, analytics, and data-driven solutions. Our more than 6,000 employees around the world are dedicated to this unique purpose, and we are guided by important values that make us the established leader in business decisioning data and analytical insights. Our data & insights are valuable at all phases of a business lifecycle and whatever the economic environment.
Why Work With Us
We are at a transformational moment in our company journey, and we’re excited about it. Each day, we are taking steps to transform our culture into one that activates our people’s best work, exploring what needs to change to accelerate creativity and innovation, and challenging ourselves to think differently about how we interact.