Help Desk Technician/ Junior Network Admin

Job Title:

* Help Desk Technician/ Junior Network Admin

Reports to:
Service Manager

Department:
Service and Support

Job Description:

The Service Desk Technician / Junior Network Engineer is responsible for handling first and second level support of service requests in a professional and timely manner. This relates to all technology, to include: workstations, servers, printers, networks, and vendor-specific hardware and software, including customer-facing hosted and cloud environments.

Basic Functions:

-IT Support relating to technical issues involving Microsoft's core business applications and operating systems.
Support of disaster recovery solutions.
-Basic technical support at the network level: WAN and LAN connectivity, routers, firewalls, and security.
-Basic remote access solution implementation and support: VPN, Terminal Services.
-Monitor the remote monitoring and management system alerts and notifications, and respond accordingly through service tickets.
-System documentation maintenance and review in ConnectWise.
-Communication with customers as required: keeping them informed of incident progress, notifying them of impending changes, and agreed outages.

Additional Duties and Responsibilities:
-Improve customer service, perception, and satisfaction.
-Fast turnaround of customer requests.
-Ability to work in a team and communicate effectively.
-Work with the Service Desk Dispatcher to ensure requests are routed to the proper resource in order to be resolved quickly and efficiently.
-Escalate service requests that require engineer level support.
-Responsible for entering time and expenses in Kaseya as they occur.
-Understand processes in Kaseya.
-Enter all work as service tickets in Kaseya.
-Work through a daily schedule in Kaseya that has been established through the dispatch process.
-Work through project tickets and phases in Kaseya as assigned by a Project Manager.
-Enter all work as service or project tickets in Kaseya .
-Review IT publications and online materials to remain up-to-date with current and future technologies emerging in the industry.

Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities Required:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

-Advanced understanding of operating systems, business applications, printing systems, and network systems.
-Interpersonal skills: such as telephony skills, communication skills, active listening, and customer care.
-Diagnosis skills of technical issues.
-Ability to multi-task and adapt to changes quickly.
-Technical awareness: the ability to match resources to technical issues appropriately.
-Service awareness of all organization's key services for which support is being provided.
-Understanding of support tools, techniques, and how technology is used to provide services.
-Typing skills to ensure quick and accurate entry of service request details.
-Self-motivated with the ability to work in a fast-moving environment.

Educational/Vocational/Previous Experience Recommendations:

-BA/BS, preferably in computer science or a related field, preferred but not required.
-Professional IT Certifications, such as Microsoft MCP, Cisco CCNA, or VMware VCP preferred but not required.

-Bilingual English-Spanish is desired, but not required.

-2yr of IT or related experience.

Benefits:

· Competitive salary based on experience and qualifications.

· Health Insurance

· Full on the job training & support.

· Fun working environment and culture.

· Great opportunity for advancement.

Only local candidates need to apply.

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. Other duties may be assigned as needed.*

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $50,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Experience level:

• 2 years

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Education:

• High school or equivalent (Preferred)

Experience:

• Windows: 2 years (Preferred)
• Active Directory: 2 years (Preferred)

Language:

• Spanish (Required)

Work Location: In person