What are the responsibilities and job description for the IT Support Specialist position at Vantage Point Recruiting?
Job Description
Job Description
The Client Technical Support Specialist is a key member of the IT group supporting the internal staff. It's an onsite position with day-time travel to it's various office within the state of Maine.
What you'll be doing :
- Assist in coordination of testing changes, upgrades and new software products, ensuring systems will operate correctly in current and future environment.
- Make recommendations on functional and technical improvements to the environment.
- Participate in performance and volume analysis and design.
- Participate in performance improvement activities. Identify and apply potential improvements related to the environment for an application.
- Provide accurate and complete answers to general use and environment questions in a timely manner.
- Serve as the point of contact for technology support and services.
- Serve as the point of integration between the business functions of the department and the technology requirements of the department.
- Provide desktop computer support.
- Serve as a point of contact for communication and coordination of service outages.
- Attend and participate in bi-weekly team and problem review meetings.
- Manage the retirement and disposal of obsolete or broken computer equipment.
- Coordinate the procurement and installation of new computer hardware and software.
- Coordinate virus protection software programs within departments.
- Understand the installation of software patches and upgrades.
- Provide input to training and / or documentation materials regarding latest technical and functional design changes.
- Ensure that all work is documented for future reference.
- Follow quality standards.
- Ensure effective and reliable backups are being performed.
- Proactively address customer needs.
- Communicate accurate and useful status updates.
- Evaluate and / or recommend purchases of computers, network hardware, peripheral equipment, and software.
- Investigate user problems, identify their source, determine possible solutions, test and implement solutions.
- Install, configure, and maintain personal computers and other related equipment, devices, and systems adds or upgrades and configures modems, disk drives, CD ROMs, printers, and related equipment.
- Assist in troubleshooting network issues, systems, and applications to identify and correct malfunctions and other operational difficulties.
- Develop and conduct various training and instruction for system users.
- Identify utilization patterns and their effect on operation / system availability and performance expectations.
What you'll have :
