Sr. Technical Support Analyst
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School is seeking an experienced information technology professional with strong customer service skills for the position of Sr. Technical Support Analyst. This position provides onsite and remote computer hardware and software support at the Carey Business School, Baltimore Harbor East campus Monday through Friday, and other days and times as needed including occasional weekend work and occasional work at the Carey DC Campus. The Sr. Technical Support Analyst will perform PC, peripheral equipment, and software installations, provide premier hands-on technical assistance and effectively troubleshoot problems based on learned knowledge, assist customers experiencing procedural or operational difficulty with technology applications, products, and services, and investigate and resolve computer software and hardware problems. This includes assistance via telephone, video conference, email, fax, walk-up, or assigned tickets. May assist and/or set up classroom, computer lab, or conference room computing needs. Will manage the recording, prioritization, and tracking of customer service requests, and resolve Level 1 and Level 2 issues directly.
Job Scope/Complexity
Perform pre-defined tasks within general process guidelines. Provide as-needed support for customers (staff, faculty, and students) and/or departmental customers. Device management complexity is often advanced. Demonstrated ability to provide good customer service. Tasks range from simple to complex in nature (e.g., working with multiple devices or device types, or complex software, or handling multiple customers). Provide guidance and direction for less experienced staff.
Specific Duties & Responsibilities
Analysis and Design
- Review customer software and hardware requirements.
- Analyze workflow of customer environment.
- Make recommendations for workspace design.
- Identify and recommend ways to improve efficiency.
- Communicate customer service requirements to management in order to evaluate additional service opportunities.
Install, Configure, Maintain
- Install, configure, and maintain end user devices (PC workstations, mobile devices, peripheral equipment).
- Install software for customers.
- Physically fix or repair devices with problems.
- Set up personal devices for staff, faculty, and students who need access to local Hopkins networks.
- Provide hands-on technical assistance.
- Provide scheduled production reports.
- Create and modify distribution packages to increase productivity of others.
- May plan and coordinate installation of cabling.
Troubleshoot
- Provide support and troubleshooting for computer labs, administrative PCs and walk in customers (students, faculty, and staff).
- Resolve network printer problems.
- Resolve and troubleshoot workstation, network, and internet access problems.
- Assist students, faculty and staff on the use of installed software applications.
- Assist students, faculty and staff in accessing and configuring e-mail accounts.
- Provide daily reports to management on current issues.
- Troubleshoot and resolve hardware and software problems (including mobile devices and peripherals) by following documentation and by using appropriate diagnostic tools to provide solutions to customer.
- Act as informational resource on hardware and software questions/issues by serving on Help Desk or support desk.
- Remain current on technology solutions to maintain professional knowledge and skills.
- Create and utilize service request escalation rules.
Documentation/Presentation
- Document instructions for using various hardware and software for customers.
- Provide specialized training.
- Create support documentation for the training and development of junior staff members.
Relationship management
- Provide technical support in the use of computing devices, software products and operations by responding to customers as needed.
- Complete requests as assigned by meeting published Service Level Agreements and/or agreed delivery dates to ensure customer satisfaction.
- Interact with outside vendors.
Physical Requirements:
- Must be able to lift, unpack, and move furniture and electronic equipment up to 50 lbs and use a 10' step ladder
Minimum Qualifications
- High School or equivalent.
- Three years related experience, including help desk or comparable IT client service experience.
- Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.
Preferred Qualifications
- Some IT related college coursework.
Classified Title: Sr. Technical Support Analyst
Role/Level/Range: ATO 37.5/03/OG
Starting Salary Range: $24.25 - $42.50 HRLY ($65,000 targeted; Commensurate w/exp.)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: Monday-Friday with evenings and weekends as needed
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Location: JH at Harbor East
Department name: IT Operations
Personnel area: Carey Business School