Role: Specialist, Technology Support II
Location: Columbia, SC
Duration: 11 months
 
C2 clearance eligibility is required.
 
Team Name: Technology Support Center 

Duties:

• Actively resolve routine to moderately complex technical needs of customers by managing problems and suggesting solutions. Research, resolve and respond to requests received from customers. Ensure documentation and processes are current as business and technology changes evolve. May have an in-depth knowledge or experience in specific areas.
• 40% Troubleshoot and restore technical service and equipment problems by analyzing symptoms using documented processes. Complete customer requests and provide guidance in resolution of application, hardware, and software problems. Determine business impact of requests and escalate to higher-level professionals when necessary.
• 20% Maintain knowledge database and call tracking database to enhance quality of problem resolutions. Keep apprized of changes in technology and processes by ensuring knowledge and documentation is current and centralized.
• 20% Proactively monitor various systems to catch problems before they become outages and to ensure the health and availability of systems, servers, network, etc.
• 15% Analyze data to gain a better understanding of business impact. Conduct a gap analysis to respond to and align with customer business needs.
• 5% Perform other job related administrative duties as needed.

Work Environment:

• Fast paced, multi-platformed environment which may require action and response 24X7 to support the technical business needs of the customer within a technical help desk support center.

Day to Day:

• Actively resolve routine to moderately complex technical needs of customers by managing problems and suggesting solutions.
• Research, resolve and respond to requests received from customers.
• Ensure documentation and processes are current as business and technology changes evolve.
• May have an in-depth knowledge or experience in specific areas.

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Strong customer service skills.
• Good problem solving skills.
• Able to provide technical advice, guidance, and informal training to customers using hardware and software programs.
• Understands basic technical problems and solutions in relation to the business environment.
• Understands the industry's business systems and processes. 

Required Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or job related degree. OR an Associate Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other job related degree OR 2 years of job related work experience plus 2 years of technical help desk experience or other job related experience.

Required Work Experience: None

Required Technologies:

• Proficient computer skills: able to maneuver through commonly used applications and systems used in the industry.

Nice To Have:

• Citrix
• VPN
• Microsoft Products (Outlook, Teams)

Soft Skills:

• Ability to multitask.
• Ability to troubleshoot
• Strong communication skills

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 20.00/hr.