Technical Support Specialist

14 Feb 2025

Vacancy expired!

Position Title: Technical Support SpecialistLocation: Princeton, NJ Duration: 6 months contract

Work arrangement: Hybrid (onsite 3 days a week)Note :- University or Campus Experience Preferred

Technical Support - 70%
  • Consult with faculty, researchers, staff and students on the availability and use of campus information technology.
  • Resolve incidents as they are reported and fulfill requests when they are submitted.
  • Record all interactions, updates, communications and work notes in the ticketing system.
  • Administer, provide support, and monitor the administrative, academic and operational systems.
  • Analyze issues to determine if there are problems that can impact the operations and bring them to closure.
  • Actively seek and participate in professional development to maintain technical knowledge in the ever-evolving technological landscape.
  • Inform the leads of tickets that have bounced multiple times and are assigned to the Service Desk team without proper validation.
  • Continually follow up on escalated tasks until successfully resolved and closed.

Knowledge Management (25%)
  • Write customer centric articles for the public facing Knowledge Base and the more technical internal documentation repository.
  • Identify gaps in article content, draft proposed solutions or make recommendations to team leads about new content creation
  • Fix errors and make corrections to current knowledge articles

Security Monitoring (5%)
  • Monitor for security-related events

Required Qualifications
  • Willingness to work toward mastery of new technologies and skills as the needs of the user community change.
  • Critical thinking, analytic, and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to work independently with minor supervision.
  • Good organizational skills, excellent written and oral communication skills, and strong attention to detail.
  • Commitment to professional customer service.
  • 2 years of experience providing multi-platform computer and networking technical support, including over the telephone support, and 2 years of experience in a customer service position (can overlap and can be as a student).
  • Experience with multiple operating systems, including virtual environments.
  • Strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to work collaboratively as part of a team.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced technical support center with rapidly shifting focus.
  • Scheduling flexibility
  • Preferred:
    • Background supporting a TCP/IP network, standard computer operating systems (running Windows, Mac OSX and Unix/Linux) and general productivity tools.
    • Experience working in higher education with faculty, staff and students.
    • Experience with directory services (Windows Active Directory/Azure and LDAP).
    • Experience working with a job tracking ticketing system.
Education: At least a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Software/Electronics Engineering, Information Systems, or a closely related field is required.

  • ID: #49193920
  • State: New Jersey Princeton 08540 Princeton USA
  • City: Princeton
  • Salary: $30 - $32
  • Job type: Contract
  • Showed: 2023-02-14
  • Deadline: 2023-04-11
  • Category: Technical support