Build, optimize and support your IT infrastructure with a team of certified experts.
Boost operations with expertise and automation
Lumen® Advanced Managed Services (AMS) provides the flexibility and control to customize your IT and cloud workloads. Utilizing automation tools and industry best practices, senior-level experts deliver service that helps meet your business’s size, budget and goals over time.
Benefits
Pricing
* Only if Flex Role not available
Features and Specs
- Advises client on risks associated with aging infrastructure
- Leads detailed working sessions with client and account team to define new IT initiatives
- Assists in the administration, tracking and reporting of software available per underlying services ordered such as Lumen® Edge Private Cloud and Lumen Public Cloud
- Provides tailored dashboard reporting
- Provide service assurance and unified operational visibility across all of Lumen’s solutions
- Proactively review and package telemetry from Lumen solutions.
- Make proactive performance recommendations
- Provide event and escalation management for planned and unplanned network service interruptions
- Perform ongoing network hardening and diversity review
- Provides reports on SLA adherence
- Documents escalation path and serves as an escalation point 24/7
- Leads change management documentation and scheduling
- Oversees code patches and software version updates
- Oversees break/fix replacements
- Reports on resource utilization for the client
- Assesses application and infrastructure designs
- Maps client’s business and architectural needs to identify gaps if present
- Designs infrastructure and network topology
- Architecture and design guidance for container technologies
- Provides security consulting, advisory, and operational services across a variety of 3rd party security services
- Completes vulnerability assessments
- Advises on security design with oversight
- Supports with audit services
- Provides hands-on support for technical area selected
- Executes non-standard change requests (e.g., policy changes, app configuration, etc.)
- Tests pre- and post-deployment patches in target client IT environments
- TSE Disciplines include; Cloud, Network, Storage, Virtulazation, OS Windows, DBA, Kubernetes – K8s, and OS Unix
- Provides hands-on support for technical area selected
- Executes non-standard change requests (e.g.,policy changes, app configuration, etc.)
- Tests pre- and post-deployment patches in target client IT environments
- Tailored, client specific, higher-level engineering support for Lumen managed IT environments
- Entry point for all of their incidents, requests, changes, and problems
- Server, Network, Software, and URL redirect management
- Respond to monitoring alerts as defined by Lumen SLOs
- Command and control in the event of a Priority P1 incident
- Huddle Client representatives and Lumen engineers
- Facilitate a technical communications forum to capture live-time triage
- Point of escalation
- Understand and document outage impacts
- Manage and monitor trouble tickets from escalation to outage resolution
- Access a variety of roles without modifying service terms
- Utilize monthly subscription hours for architecture, engineering, or security roles
- Make requests for supported roles with fast and efficient processes in partnership with your chosen oversight role
- Azure and AWS training workshops
- Configuration and deployment of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM): creating application, script, and template boxes
- Auto-discovery of existing instances, registration, and multi-cloud deployment guidance
- Versioning and auto-updating box how-to's
- Review and guidance of deployment policy configuration with ALM
- Deep dive on cloud optimization and analytics including billing, cost recommendations, best practices for security, availability, cost, and usage
- Deep dive on ALM including boxes, instances, lifecycle editor, updates, configuration management, and auto-discovery
- Monitoring Integration
- Planning and implementation of a single event stream – NRC
- Management and maintenance of event stream – MRC
- Network Penetration Tests—4 per Year
- Network Penetration Tests—1 Time
- Application Penetration Test—1 Time
- Disaster Recovery Services
- Testing
- Failover
- Failback
- Log Management Advisory
- Intrusion Detect and Prevention Service Advisory
Use Cases
Resources
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