Deskside Support Engineer
1 week ago
This position assists staff with technical support or desktop/laptop computers, applications, printers and related technologies.
Responsibilities:
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This position assists staff with technical support or desktop/laptop computers, applications, printers and related technologies.
Responsibilities:
- Assists staff with installation, configuration and ongoing usability of computers and peripherals within established standards and guidelines.
- Works with vendor support contacts to resolve technical problems.
- Works with service desk and RDS as appropriate to determine and resolve problems received from clients.
- Responds to support requests from service desk, users and other infrastructure teams.
- Performs upgrades as directed to ensure the longevity of equipment.
- Keep track of request and make sure they are implemented as planned.
- Participate in incident handling concerning desktop changes.
- Participate in projects concerning bigger desktop changes, for example rollout of new antivirus.
- Microsoft environment knowledge (desktop & server).
- Ensures that computers connect seamlessly with diverse systems including validation systems, file servers, email servers, application servers and administrative systems.
- Provide weekly reports.
- Implement best practices.
- Be the single point of contact with customer.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree / Diploma in Engineering, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related field.
- Minimum 5+ years of experience from the desktop environment.
- Have some level of technical understanding of the products building up a desktop service.
- Exposure on managing remote sites.
- Phone support experience necessary.
- Technical helpdesk or technical call center experience is necessary.
- Disciplined, systematic problem solving skills required.
- Windows and Novell Operating systems.
- Clients: Windows7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000.
- Servers: Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows 2008.
- Knowledge of Active Directory, Novell eDirectory, Lotus Notes and Exchange 2003/2007.
- ITSM ticketing tools such as Remedy, HP Service Center, Peregrine Service Center.
- Remote desktop connectivity applications like SMS, Bomgar, WebEx, Live Meeting, and Windows Native tools.
- MS Office Suite (XP, 2003, 2007): MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Outlook, MS Project, and MS Visio.
- Internet browsers (e.g. Explorer, Chrome, Firefox).
- VPN and remote dial-in users.
- Support for laptop, desktops, AV Devices and printers.
- PDA and blackberry support.
- Apple Ipad Device support.
- Others: Adobe Acrobat and other common desktop applications like Winzip, etc.
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