
Operations Engineer
- Melbourne, VIC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Primarily responsibility for the overall technical operation and maintenance of systems and subsystems of the P25 system for Metropolitan Mobile Radio (MMR).
- Ongoing high end technical, engineering and upgrade support for main systems and subsystems used on the P25 and associated Core systems and Remote Sites, Console Dispatch System, Voice/Telephony Logging Systems associated LAN/WANs, external interfaces and Network Management Systems.
- Act as a technical escalation point for Network Operations Control Centre (NOC) staff and Field Engineers requiring technical assistance.
- Provide advice and support to our customers and internal stakeholders and be available (via phone and physically) to Motorola stakeholders and/or users requiring technical assistance.
- Participate in regular on call roster for after-hours call out to resolve urgent system problems. The on call component will be a rotating roster shared with other engineers
- Support after hours planned maintenance and system upgrade activities.
- Follow standard Operational and Help Desk operating procedures; accurately log and update all Help Desk tickets using incident/call tracking software.
- Escalate to management any systemic issues that are operational and customer impacting to engage further engineering support for root cause and resolution.
- Produce and/or update “as-built” documentation for supported systems, as required.
- Prepare and document standard operating procedures and protocols.
- Ensure supported system installation and configuration is in accordance with documentation and Motorola Quality Installation Standards.
- Provide ad hoc general support and training to Motorola stakeholders from time to time.
- Other duties as assigned by the Operations Manager or other applicable management staff.
- Provides short and long term in depth analysis and investigation of problems.
- Work with System Integration and engineering staff from time to time for assistance with project activities, as required and approved by direct line management.
- Represents the operational engineering support to Management and /or vendors (or other support groups as applicable) in the resolution of equipment/network performance problems.
- Identify and develop work instructions, procedures and policies (surveillance, analysis and testing).
- Conducts network testing, integration and certification.
- Responsible for the ongoing reporting functions in relation to KPIs and SLAs.
- Engineer, implement and monitor security measures for the protection of radio and application network.
- Perform patch updates on Windows, Linux servers and other network devices in conjunction with the Operations Team.
- Work with Product Teams to ensure patches are released and updated on time.
- Ensure End Point security definitions and controls are maintained and updated regularly.
- Identify and implement areas for continuous improvements.
- Mentor junior technical staff.
- Undertake special projects and other duties.
- Tertiary Qualifications in Electronics / Computer Systems Engineering or similar (Extensive industry experience will be considered as an alternative).
- Telecommunications, Land Mobile Radio (LMR)
- Motorola P25 System Experience
- Microsoft Windows Server and/or SQL certification
- CompTIA Linux+
- Cisco Certified Network Certification
- Juniper Certification
- ITIL Certification
- Additional qualifications (or significant industry experience) with regard to:
- Network Security skills including intrusion detection devices firewalls and anti-virus
- Virtualization and Cloud Computing
- Server maintenance skills - hardware and software
- Voice over IP