Network Performance Analyst

ork. Other responsibilities include:

• Apply highly developed inductive reasoning skills to provide a proactive approach to potential network Operating System or hardware Failure.

• Create custom alert schema, reports and custom dashboards

• Characterize and analyze network traffic to identify anomalous activity and potential failure/threats to network resources

• Provide relevant key performance information to aid network planning and operations

• Add network Context, eliminate noise and false positives, and develop trends and data models

• Performing root cause analysis of Network OS and hardware failures using Logs

• Provide relevant log data to aid troubleshooting and resolving of network issues.

• Explore existing knowledge base and make recommendation to improve systems, solutions and processes

• Identify and validate new log sources, search through indexed data and develop methods to improve data mining, analysis, and reporting.

• Gather and accumulate data from disparate sources, clean it, organize it, process it, and analyze it to extract valuable insights and information.

• Identify new sources of data and develop methods to improve data mining, analysis, and reporting.

• Validate log sources and indexed data, search through indexed data to optimize search criteria

• Present the findings in reports (in table, chart, or graph format) to help the Network Planning and management team in the decision-making process.

• Create data definitions for new database files or alterations made to the already existing ones for analysis purposes.

• Keep track of the trends and correlational patterns among complex data sets.

• Perform routine analysis tasks to support day-to-day network functions and decision making.

• Work closely and collaboration with other network team and the business management team to accomplish company goals

Qualification

• Bachelors of Science in Computer Science or related field

• Relevant professional/technical certifications in Big Data/Hadoop/SIEM

• Good presentation skills

• Relationship Management skills

• Time & self-management skills

• Ability to work well under pressure

• Good oral and written communication skills

• Good knowledge of networking technologies

• Hands on experience in Big data analytics, SIEM and syslogs operations

• Should be able to script in any language but preferably python

• Ability to develop relational databases for sourcing and collecting data and write SQL queries to extract data is an added advantage

• Service provider experience in technologies with syslog applications preferably Splunk

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