What are the responsibilities and job description for the IT/AV Support Specialist position at ALTEN?
Title: IT/AV Support Specialist
Position Type: Long term contract role with a potential to become full time employment- Potential to extend and potential to offer FTE role for right candidate
Location: San Jose, CA, 95113-Onsite
Work Schedule: 40 hours/week
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
Campus Technology Support
Position Type: Long term contract role with a potential to become full time employment- Potential to extend and potential to offer FTE role for right candidate
Location: San Jose, CA, 95113-Onsite
Work Schedule: 40 hours/week
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- The ideal candidate should have a Bachelor's degree in a technology related field and possess 2 - 4 years of experience.
- Experience supporting connectivity, AV, personal computers, OS X and Windows desktops and laptops in an enterprise environment.
- Experience with support software such as SharePoint, and Microsoft Outlook and other Microsoft applications as well as a portfolio of software applications for both personal productivity and collaboration.
- ITIL, Mac, and Microsoft product certifications are a plus.
- A passion for providing an excellent end user experience is required.
- The position requires a logical and structured approach to troubleshooting and decision making with an emphasis on superior customer service.
- Familiarity with service desk applications and/or incident management environments desired. Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills are required.
- A flexible schedule is a must as the work hours may include days in addition to evenings, holidays, and weekends.
- Be knowledgeable of information security best practices, trends, and relevant frameworks in accordance with applicable NEU policies, programs, technical standards, and initiatives. An example framework is NIST 800-171
- Previous experience with supporting technology in an academic setting is a plus.
Campus Technology Support
- Coordinate setup, maintain, and track all technology equipment on the Seattle campus. Manage asset disposition of old equipment. Assist in troubleshooting Tier II and Tier III issues and notification of enterprise problems at the San Jose campus.
- Help oversee campus technology including Internet, phone, digital signs, etc.
- Support all AV troubleshooting to include videoconferencing and audioconferencing room systems, projectors, digital screens, and other related equipment.
- Manage Husky ID Card machine, updates, and equipment upgrades.
- Thoroughly document all work completed in the enterprise ticketing system, ServiceNow.
- Overall Classroom support including assisting faculty and students with accessing applications and Northeastern wired and wireless networks.
- Setup and support of classroom technology, select teaching software and events.
- Manage employee and student (Papercut) printers on campus, warranties, updates, upgrades, and supplies, including leased MFDs
- Provide faculty and staff with 1st and 2nd technology support, which includes: troubleshooting operating systems, applications, and network issues, answering questions regarding application use, and the installation of software.
- Champion and train on new and existing IT systems
- Provide support for global campus faculty/staff requests via email, Teams, or phone
- Setup, maintain, and track all faculty/staff technology on the Seattle campus, including computers, cellphones, iPads, printers and other.
- Image/reimage all campus computers, install updates and software.
- Advise faculty and staff on best practices, university policies, and process improvement.
- Develop and nurture relationships with faculty and staff to encourage technology use.
- Champion and train on new regional IT systems
- Actively promote global security awareness program
- Act as central point of contact for Information security incidents or compliance alerts.
- Provide feedback to ITS-OIS staff on information security improvements.
- Ensure that internal information security measures take into consideration any unique data or research needs of the represented global campus location.
- Aid in the selection and development of improved security solutions and services.
- Serve as representatives on the Information Security Committee.
- Periodically reporting campus security status and compliance with relevant policies and standards
- Be knowledgeable of information security best practices, trends, and relevant frameworks in accordance with applicable NEU policies, programs, technical standards, and initiatives. NIST 800-171
- Discovery, scoping, implementation, and management for campus specific software solutions
- Administration of Global IT managed enterprise systems including user creation, license number compliance, and consultation on using additional features
- Ensuring best practice utilization by working with end users
- Vendor management for Global IT SaaS products
- Technology evaluation, consultation, project participation, and implementation. This entails project roll out including documentation, self-service, Service Desk, troubleshooting, analyzing initial feedback, and proactively analyzing effect of implementation on user community and environment from the Customer Services perspective.
- Initiate cross-departmental communication concerning current and future technology use, encourage exploration of technology options.
- Participate in planning and execution of support for special events.
- Train customers to operate and integrate technology equipment.
