Vaco Looking for Technical System Administrator | $30-$35/hr Full Time

Job Description ***Technical System Administrator I*** ***6 – 12 months CTH*** | Ongoing 6 months renewal till they convert ***$30-35/hr on w2*** ***Conversion Salary $70k*** Location(s): 1010 Isuzu Pkwy, Grand Prairie, TX – 75050 One National Dr. SW, Atlanta, GA – 30336
Job Description: Under the direct supervision of the regional IT Customer Service Desk Manager, the Corporate Technical System Administrator I will be responsible for hands-on hardware and software technical support. The TSA I is responsible for managing the desktop support environment including minor server/network administration as needed to support business continuity. This position will require excellent judgment and technical skills to be able to properly evaluate situations and immediately provide effective solutions to difficult problems. Will serve as an escalation point, site lead and subject matter expert for other junior technicians.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities (other duties may be assigned.)

• Define, document, and maintain standard operating procedures on troubleshooting supported desktop technologies, applications, and warehouse systems for continuous improvements.
• Help to service and maintenance audio-visual equipment as needed.
• Will be the Enterprise SPOC for PC/iPad procurement, distribution, recovery as well as disposal.
• Ability to account for all active or inactive equipment in the CMDB; maintain asset and equipment end-of-life compliance procedures and participate in yearly CAPEX and IT budget requirements.
• Will continuously monitor, effort, assign/re-assign, escalate, etc. Incidents/Requests with ServiceNow ITSM tool.
• Fully document all service management incidents and requests in ServiceNow ITSM Suite; including issue description, troubleshooting methods performed, communications sent to associates, and actions taken to final resolution, including knowledge base learnings if appropriate.
• Timely acknowledgment and triage of service management incidents to determine the proper impact and urgency to recovery and prevent system outages. Search Service Desk knowledge base articles, SOP’s for possible incident resolutions.
• Responsible for properly determining and assigning higher tiered service management incidents/requests to responsible assignment groups if the resolution cannot occur at TSA level.
• Willingness and availability to serve in an on-call scheduled rotation that provides night and weekend support coverage to our associates as needed.
• Provide effective world-class customer service to all our associates by being courteous, polite, engaging, and compassionate.
• Assist in the mentoring and training of all TSA II team members. Ensure that all TSA II’s are adhering to established service management policies and procedures for processing, escalating, notifying, and closing incidents/requests.
• Responsible for troubleshooting and configuring software, printer, and connectivity related issues beyond step-by-step instructions.
• Provide 24X7 first line support for all Warehouse Automation technologies which includes physical repairs of mechanical equipment as needed.
• Maintain and demonstrate excellent teamwork and collaboration while serving as the individual market center technical/project lead for enterprise IT initiatives.
• Thorough understanding of warehouse networked equipment and internal data flows, point of sales infrastructures, mainframe data collections, and data mining transfers to warehouse logistic systems and distribution repositories.
• Act as the primary escalation point for vendor and operations team communications during individual market center system outages.
• Maintain and ensure market centers security threats and vulnerabilities are remediated to safeguard enterprise environment.
• Willingness to travel locally and nationally, less than 5%.

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university, or equivalent experience. A degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer/Data Systems Management or a related field or discipline is preferred.
• A minimum of 5 – 7 years of combined experience in information security, information technology and IT Service Management.
• High level understanding and experience of network troubleshooting, network design topology and terminologies, TCP/IP knowledge, VLANS and routing.
• Technical skills in vulnerability assessment, networking, operating systems, and incident response methodology are desired.
• Working technical knowledge and experience in information technology, computing systems, network technology, security operations, security technology, and the application of information security concepts.
• Incumbent will have exposure to ITIL foundational structures including Service Transition, Service Operations, and Continual Service Improvements.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

• Systems certifications or relevant IT certifications are a plus
• It is generally desirable for a person in this position to possess technical certifications such as: A+, Security+, Network+, ITIL, Microsoft MCP/MCSE or other related industry certifications, and ability to maintain those certifications.

Job Requirements Essential Duties and Responsibilities (other duties may be assigned.)
Define, document, and maintain standard operating procedures on troubleshooting supported desktop technologies, applications, and warehouse systems for continuous improvements.
Help to service and maintenance audio-visual equipment as needed.

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