SOC Engineer L1
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 13, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 8, 2026.
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As a Security Managed Services Engineer (L1) at NTT DATA, you will step into an entry-level role focused on maintaining our clients' firewall infrastructures. Your main objective will be to ensure our Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are met with zero missed conditions. You'll be front-line support, handling standard and low-complexity incidents and service requests, as well as contributing to project work when needed.
Daily, you'll monitor client infrastructure and solutions, quickly identifying and investigating problems and errors before or as they occur. You'll provide telephonic, ITSM ticket or chat support to clients, ensuring efficient and comprehensive resolutions of incidents and requests. By scheduling maintenance activities like patching and configuration changes, you contribute to a proactive approach in managing and optimizing workflows.
You'll follow necessary handover procedures for shift changes to ensure service continuity and update existing knowledge articles-or create new ones. A key part of your role will be identifying opportunities for work optimization, including automation of work, request fulfilment, incident resolution, and other process improvements. You may also be involved in implementing and delivering disaster recovery functions and tests.
Key Responsibilities:
- Monitors client infrastructure and solutions.
- Identifies problems and errors prior to or when they occur.
- Routinely identifies common incidents and opportunities for avoidance as well as general opportunities for incident reduction.
- Investigates first line incidents assigned and identifies the root cause of incidents and problems.
- Provides telephonic or chat support to clients when required.
- Schedules maintenance activity windows for patching and configuration changes.
- Follows the required handover procedures for shift changes to ensure service continuity.
- Reports and escalates incidents where necessary.
- Ensures the efficient and comprehensive resolutions of incidents and requests.
- Updates existing knowledge articles or create new ones.
- Identifies opportunities for work optimization including opportunities for automation of work, request fulfilment, incident resolution, and other general process improvement opportunities.
- May also contribute to / support on project work as and when required.
- May work on implementing and delivering disaster recovery functions and tests.
- Performs any other related task as required.
Knowledge and Attributes:
- Ability to communicate and work across different cultures and social groups.
- Ability to plan activities and projects well in advance, and takes into account possible changing circumstances.
- Ability to maintain a positive outlook at work.
- Ability to work well in a pressurized environment.
- Ability to work hard and put in longer hours when it is necessary.
- Ability to apply active listening techniques such as paraphrasing the message to confirm understanding, probing for further relevant information, and refraining from interrupting.
- Ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
- Ability to place clients at the forefront of all interactions, understanding their requirements, and creating a positive client experience throughout the total client journey.
Academic Qualifications and Certifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification in IT/Computing (or demonstrated equivalent work experience).
- CCNA or relevant level 1 Network Security certification is good to have. Certifications carry additional weight on a candidate’s qualification for the role..
Required experience:
- Entry-level experience with troubleshooting and providing the support required in security / network/ DATA center/ systems/ storage administration and monitoring Services within a medium to large ICT organization.
- Basic knowledge of management agents, redundancy concepts, and products within the supported technical domain (such as Security, Network, DATA Centre, Telephony, etc.).
- Working knowledge of ITIL processes.
Workplace type:
On-site WorkingAbout NTT DATA
NTT DATA is a $30+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune
Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through
responsible innovation. We are one of the world’s leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with
unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and
application services. Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move
confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more
than 70 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as
established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each
year in R&D.
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