Tech Support Spec I

Job Purpose Respond to requests for technical and functional assistance in person, via phone, or electronically. Diagnose and resolve technical hardware and software issues. Research questions using available information resources. Also responsible for ensuring that all data processes are completed in a timely manner to support billing, meter data integration, vendor payments, and other OUC business critical applications. Research issues related to Enterprise level monitoring such as health of the network, servers, security threats and batch schedules. Primary Functions Diagnose, troubleshoot and resolve technical problems and advise customer on appropriate action via phone, email, and/or walk-ins; Manage, review, and work incoming tickets within BMC FootPrints and redirect problems to appropriate resource if they cannot be resolved by the Help Desk; Review and respond to incoming emails from the IT support mailbox, and create tickets accordingly in BMC FootPrints; Log all Help Desk interactions in BMC FootPrints ticketing system; Update and repair software and/or applications as required for customers; Override approvals within BMC FootPrints as required and make administrative changes to customer and agent profiles as required; Document steps for new procedures or changes in procedures and share with team, as well as upload to ShareIT site; Rotate on-call duties weekly amongst team members. This requires 24 hour, 7 days a week, availability to respond to customer problems; Work with Manager and Business Analysts within IT as necessary on special projects or pending changes to TOS procedures; Work with other IT Application teams on triage support transition documentation; Research and seek solutions to more difficult problems of issues that arise; Remain abreast of IT Support policies and procedures; Assist other TOS Specialists with applications and software when needed; Attend and participate in daily IT Support call; Coordinate, monitor, and verify production batch jobs on local and enterprise schedulers; Analyze File Transfer Protocol (FTP) logs, troubleshoot problems and cancel/rerun/restart batch jobs and failed data processes; Ensure that the 24 hour job run schedule is completed within the Service Level Agreements (SLA) timeframe; Assist with testing of new hardware, software and business processes in test/development/User Acceptance Testing (UAT) environments prior to production installs and monitor testing turnover; Open OUC FootPrints incident tickets and work service requests; Contact internal customers and external vendors to verify and complete business processes; Support network and storage configuration, data center operations and infrastructure hardware/software (i.e. Microsoft server platforms, System Center, etc.); Maintain accurate, technical documentation and event turnover for management and IT partners; communicate threats, issues and missed SLA levels through incident management and call-out protocols; Perform other duties as assigned.