IT Support Specialist

About the role

• The Support Practice Group of Kraft Kennedy is seeking applicants for full- time position on site Desktop Support Specialist
• The schedule is
• Monday to Friday 8:30 am to 5:30 pm central time
• You must be located in the Chicago area to be considered for this position.
• The Support Practice Group is a large and growing group of diverse technical staff providing a broad range of technology support in various industry verticals as part of Kraft Kennedy’s Managed Services offering.

This position reports to a Team Leader and will work closely with co-workers, senior technical staff and other support staff in this collaborative, highly active, engaging environment. Make a difference for our clients and grow your technical skills in the process.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to our geographically diverse nationwide clients using industry standard remote connections, internal ticketing system, monitoring consoles and more.
• Provide on-site assistance to clients.
• Assist both client end users and IT staff with a broad range of computer application problems, server issues, virtualization, SAN, networking issues, security issues and more.
• Escalate issues and interact closely with third-party vendors and other team members helping manage the resolution of complex client issues.
• Initiate and perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) on more complex client issues for one-time resolution.
• Contribute to special internal facing projects, as assigned, to facilitate the growth of the Support Practice Group.
• Provide regional local on-site client support, as necessary.

Pay and benefits

The base pay for this position has a salary range of $55,000 to $65,000. The actual salary offer will take in to account a wide range of factors including the individual’s qualifications, experience as well as location. In addition, certain positions are eligible for bonuses or commissions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT or related field or a minimum of 3 years of related work experience in lieu of a degree.
• Strong customer service and communication skills.
• Very organized and detail oriented, with a high degree of accuracy and follow up.
• Strong problem solving and technical troubleshooting skills.
• Experience supporting environments with Windows Server and Exchange infrastructure is preferred.
• Experience with server and network administration, software deployment and MS office. Document management experience preferred but not mandatory.
• Some combined industry experience with Windows desktops.
• Virtualization and storage experience strongly preferred.
• MCSE and/or related technical certifications are strongly preferred.

Physical Requirements

Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.