NOC Technician

IT Operations Center Technician – 3rd ShiftResponsible for monitoring, supporting, and managing incidents across the enterprise-wide network, systems, and applications, with a focus on availability and performance. This role emphasizes real-time situational awareness to proactively identify and address issues that may impact customers or employees. The analyst will escalate issues to internal and external support teams and assist with troubleshooting efforts.Strong technical writing skills are essential for authoring communications to the Fifth Third user community and leadership regarding IT outages or performance issues, including business and customer impact.The role requires accountability for risk management by openly exchanging ideas, elevating concerns, and adhering to defined policies and procedures. Candidates must consistently act in the best interest of customers and colleagues, contributing to a positive customer experience.This position offers exposure to a wide range of IT issues and technologies, with opportunities for growth into more advanced roles.Essential Duties & ResponsibilitiesLead IT incident bridge calls to resolution by providing on-call engagement, escalations, and written and verbal status updates.Act on alarming data proactively to prevent system outages and respond to incidents before customer impact.Support system and application access management in production environments.Monitor network connectivity and performance; coordinate with telecom carriers to resolve outages or degradations.Perform system and application monitoring and diagnostics; engage Tier II and III support teams for resolution.Ensure resolution of incidents within defined SLAs.Monitor Enterprise wide IT environment for failures, degradation, and event correlation; take corrective actions to minimize downtime.Document issues and resolutions in the ServiceNow ticketing system.Provide first-line troubleshooting for corporate data center technologies including Windows Server, SQL, VMware, and UNIX.Maintain technical documentation and standard operating procedures.Perform additional duties as assigned.Supervisory ResponsibilitiesNone.Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities RequiredAssociate's degree and 3+ years of experience, or equivalent combination (e.g., bachelor's degree and 1+ years, or no degree with 5+ years in help desk/service desk/NOC technician roles).Strong verbal and written communication skills.Demonstrated problem-solving ability and capacity to assist less experienced staff.Collaborative mindset with ability to foster strong working relationships across IT teams.Flexibility to work assigned shifts, including nights and evenings.Commitment to continuous improvement and customer-centric service.ITIL and/or Lean Six Sigma certification beneficial.This position is for 3rd shift: Sunday through Thursday.Position not available for immigration sponsorship#LI-MB1At Fifth Third, we understand the importance of recognizing our employees for the role they play in improving the lives of our customers, communities and each other. Our Total Rewards include comprehensive benefits and differentiated compensation offerings to give each employee the opportunity to be their best every day.The base salary for this position is reflective of the range of salary levels for all roles within this pay grade across the U.S. Individual salaries within this range will vary based on factors such as role, relevant skillset, relevant experience, education and geographic location. In addition to the base salary, this role is eligible to participate in an incentive compensation plan, with any such payment based upon company, line of business and/or individual performance.Our extensive benefits programs are designed to support the individual needs of our employees and their families, encompassing physical, financial, emotional and social well-being. You can learn more about those programs on our 53.com Careers page or by consulting with your talent acquisition partner.LOCATION -- Cincinnati, Ohio 45212Fifth Third Bank, National Association is proud to have an engaged and inclusive culture and to promote and ensure equal employment opportunity in all employment decisions regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, military status, veteran status or any other legally protected status.