
Susan Whitmore
NOC Engineer
Eyes on the network, incidents caught before users notice
NOC engineer with six years monitoring and maintaining network and server infrastructure for a Manchester managed-service provider. Watches over hundreds of devices across client networks around the clock, responds to alerts, triages incidents, and escalates or resolves before users are affected. Cut mean-time-to-respond on critical alerts by tuning monitoring thresholds and rebuilding the runbook. Handles incident management, change implementation and clear shift handovers, and works to ITIL processes. Strong on monitoring tools, networking fundamentals and staying calm during a major incident. Reliable across the 24/7 shift pattern. Looking for a NOC, network-operations or infrastructure role with a provider that runs a tight, proactive operation.
Northern Managed Services - Manchester, UK
NOC Engineer April 2018 to Present 8 years & 3 months
Cut mean-time-to-respond on critical alerts by tuning the monitoring thresholds and rebuilding the incident runbook.
Triage and resolve incidents, or escalate them with full context, before end users are ever affected.
Implement scheduled changes and planned maintenance to client infrastructure during the agreed change windows.
Manage incidents to ITIL process and write clear handovers so nothing is dropped between shifts.
Maintain the monitoring dashboards, full documentation and network records for the whole managed operation.
Manchester Network Solutions - Manchester, UK
Network Support Technician August 2017 to March 2018 8 months
Learned the monitoring tools, incident handling and escalation under senior engineers.
Supported maintenance and change work on client networks during change windows.
Handled first-line alerts and tickets, helping keep client networks healthy on shift.
Gained the CCNA and ITIL certifications and a full NOC-engineer role.
Manchester IT Support - Manchester, UK
IT Helpdesk Technician June 2015 to July 2017 2 years & 2 months
Logged, triaged and escalated tickets, learning the incident and service-desk process.
Built networking knowledge and the calm phone manner a NOC needs.
Earned the early certifications that led into a network-support technician role.
Manchester Metropolitan University
BSc in Network Engineering (September 2014 to June 2017)
Cisco / AXELOS
CCNA & ITIL Foundation Certification (January 2018 to June 2018)
CCNA & ITIL Foundation
Cisco / AXELOS (June 2018 to Present)
Network Monitoring & Security
Cisco / AXELOS (March 2020 to Present)
- Network Monitoring
- Incident Management
- Alert Triage
- Networking (Routing/Switching)
- Monitoring Tools (SolarWinds/PRTG)
- ITIL Processes
- Change Implementation
- Escalation & Handover
- Runbook Management
- Documentation
English (UK)
Native or Bilingual ProficiencyFrench
Limited Working ProficiencyLocation
Manchester, UKNationality
BritishGender
FemaleAvailability
Shift workDate of Birth
1994-09-15Sees the problem coming
Northern Managed Services (January 2021 to Present)
Clean shift handovers
Northern Managed Services (January 2022 to Present)