IT Support Specialist

Posted 24 Days Ago
San Francisco, CA
Entry level
Information Technology
The Role
The IT Support Specialist role involves providing assistance with PC and Apple hardware, operating systems, and applications. Responsibilities include monitoring alerts, managing technical support tickets, facilitating communication with clients, and assisting senior staff with troubleshooting and customer service efforts. The position aims to enhance user experience through effective problem-solving and support management.
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Company Description

In this position, you will learn and strengthen your knowledge of PC and Apple hardware, operating systems, and applications. You’ll work with wired and wireless networks, Office 365, hosted systems, and cloud technologies.

In addition to the technical side, you’ll get the satisfaction of helping clients solve issues that help them be more effective in their work.

You must have good problem solving skills and critical thinking skills. You’ll need to asses, understand, evaluate, research, diagnose, cross reference, wiki-search, or escalate to help get problems solved. You’ll also have the benefit of working with and learning from senior staff and outside consultants.


    Job Description

    To Summarize:

    • You need to learn great customer service skills in voice, email, txt, Slack, or other
    • The ability to help start the support experience in a professional manner
    • Monitoring key information in front of you using dashboard
    • Perform light user administration duties like password resets, ticket creation, scheduling or calendar events for future promises of action, getting the message to the right person

    Qualifications

    High-level Responsibilities:

    • Use monitoring dashboards to validate alerts, escalate to the right team member
    • We have 10+ tools that send us alerts that need to be monitored and responded depending on severity
    • Must have experience in hardware, camera installations, familiar with networking devices. 
    • Review queue of technical support “tickets” or “requests”, work to maintain an even number of tickets assigned to technical and non-technical team members
    • Sometimes helping customers generates new technical requests or sometimes even new sales request you’ll be responsible for cleanly handing off to the next best person
    • Understand the people and the technical obstruction preventing your customer from succeeding and remedy or escalate to the next best person
    • Re-prioritize tasks, practice clean-handoff, assist your team by making sure information is clear and accurate. Look carefully and listen closely.
    • Making and sending key communications to customers to provide executive summaries and working to demystify problems
    • Verify contact information for all human capital, people, vendors and their data
    • Use CRM and Webapps to understand systems that people and aid in fixing broken software
    • Coordinating events with technical and non-technical people

    Requirements:

    • Zero to five years of experience working in an end-user support role or similar experience in customer service facing job position. We can train the right person!
    • Experience and understanding of Microsoft Operating System products and Office products
    • Extra credit: any vendor certifications from Microsoft, Cisco, CompTIA, or other

    Additional Information

    This is a Direct Hire position. 

    Compensation and Benefits:

    • Competitive compensation depends on experience
    • We offer health benefits and 401k with matching




     

    Top Skills

    Microsoft
    The Company
    31 Employees
    Remote Workplace

    What We Do

    Darbas, LLC is a boutique firm focused on Information Technology and Finance/Mortgage placements in the San Francisco Bay Area. With over 14 years of industry experience, a strong track record and the ability to understand the client’s specific requirements, Darbas LLC provides a very custom and personal approach to customers. What sets Darbas apart is the ability to provide highly skilled candidates in an expeditious manner while mindful of client’s bottom line.

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