What are the responsibilities and job description for the Desktop Support Tech position at Cognizant?
Cognizant is seeking a seeking a – Field Services & Desktop Support Tech in High Point, NC. This is a fully onsite, work‑from‑office desktop support across office and factory environments. This is a hands-on onsite lead role, requiring daily physical presence at customer location, where the lead actively performs field support while overseeing desktop operations for the site. Applicants will need to have valid US work authorization. Cognizant does not offer visa sponsorship now or anytime in the future.
Key Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on onsite support (break/fix, deployments, escalations) for laptops/desktops, rugged factory devices, printers (HP/Lexmark), handheld scanners, and conference room A/V systems.
- Act as primary point of accountability for the site from desktop support perspective.
- Monitor and assign tickets through ITSM tools; manage queues, priorities, and escalations.
- Apply strong Windows troubleshooting skills and basic network diagnostics to restore services quickly.
- Perform incident management, RCA for major incidents, and drive issue prevention.
- Create and maintain SOPs, runbooks, and knowledge articles.
- Utilize tools such as SCCM, IT Shop, and Nexthink for endpoint visibility and support efficiency.
- 5 plus years of Desktop Support Services experience including Windows 11 support, laptop/desktop hardware troubleshooting, printer support.
- 2 to 3 years of Cisco VC devices troubleshooting and telephony.
- Experience with work assignment reporting, escalation handling, RCA/root case analysis and documentation.