Network Operations Center Analyst
Location: DC, Washington
Description:
Hybrid 2 Days Onsite/3 Days Remote in Washington, DC
Our client seeks a NOC Analyst to support enterprise network and infrastructure monitoring within a 24x7 federal operations environment. The role encompasses real-time monitoring, event triage, ticketing, and coordination with infrastructure and operations teams to maintain availability, performance, and reliability. The position requires experience in a NOC or similar IT operations setting, with knowledge of monitoring tools, escalation workflows, and operational reporting.
Due to federal security clearance requirements, applicant must be a United States Citizen. Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
Rate: $45.00 to $50.00/hr. w2
Responsibilities:
- Perform real-time network and infrastructure monitoring across enterprise systems in a 24x7 NOC environment.
- Identify, triage, and respond to network outages, system alerts, and performance events.
- Monitor servers, endpoints, network devices, and cloud infrastructure for availability and performance.
- Create, update, and manage incident tickets with proper documentation and escalation.
- Follow established ticketing and escalation workflows to route issues to appropriate teams.
- Coordinate with system administrators, engineers, and infrastructure teams for issue resolution.
- Track incident status and provide updates to stakeholders and operations leadership.
- Support operational reporting, including incident trends, outage reporting, and performance metrics.
- Contribute to documentation, runbooks, and standard operating procedures.
- Identify opportunities for operational improvements and monitoring enhancements.
Experience Requirements:
- 3–5 years in network operations, IT operations, or NOC environments.
- Hands-on experience with network monitoring and outage/event triage.
- Experience with infrastructure, server, endpoint, and/or network device monitoring.
- Proficiency with ticketing systems and escalation workflows.
- Coordination experience with infrastructure or system operations teams.
- Operational reporting and metrics tracking.
- Familiarity with enterprise IT environments across on-prem and cloud.
- Understanding of incident management processes.
- Ability to work in a shift-based 24x7 operations environment.
- Preferred exposure to tools and platforms such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender, Rapid7 InsightVM, Device42, Jira, Confluence, AWS, Azure, Intune, Okta, Entra ID, CyberArk, Microsoft Purview, Appian, and Oracle.
- Preferred familiarity with ITIL, regulated or federal environments, cybersecurity operations or SOC settings, and relevant certifications such as CompTIA Network+ or Security+.
Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.
W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
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About Eliassen Group:
Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients’ capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.
Eliassen is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and all employment decisions are based on merit, performance, and business needs. Eliassen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender identity or expression, sexual preference or orientation, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), marital status, creed, religion, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, age, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, prohibited criminal record inquiries of applicants and employees, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws.
