IT Analyst - End User Support

School of Medicine

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Job Title: Analyst, IT

Primary role:

The OASIS Computing team has the day-to-day responsibilities for configuring, implementing, and supporting approximately 10,000 workstations and 9,000 customers throughout Duke School of Medicine departments, institutes and centers.  The role is for Device Support IT, focused on end user technical support.

Essential tasks/responsibilities:

This position is responsible for IT maintenance regarding workstations, printers, and peripheral devices, along with some ancillary support for application issues. Analysts are expected to be first point of contact for IT questions, liaison between DHTS and customer base in order to respond to business needs.

Specific duties include, but are not limited to:

• Provide primary support for issues pertaining to network, fileserver, desktop/laptop, printer, peripheral, and/or other user problems and when necessary, coordinate with other DHTS groups for a resolution.
• Participate in proactive device management and have strong communication skills, paying constant attention to customer needs.
• Ability to work independently to specific standards.
• Build, install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Windows/Mac/Linux based desktop/laptop computers, printers, and other peripherals (such as Smartphones and tablet devices).
• Install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot software applications.
• Maintain user account, group, and network security practices.  
• Maintain accurate documentation and inventory of all deployed hardware and software, as well as procedures regarding end user device support and operations.
• Provide VoIP secondary technical support and provide customer training and orientation for use of the technology.
• Perform customer training on all necessary applications and hardware, review and enforce security policies
• Participate in the group’s 24x7 on call rotation.
• Windows/Macintosh file sharing and application support.
• Ancillary AV support to supported conference rooms/end user
• Serve as a point contact to interact with application/equipment vendors
• Provide support for remote access and international travel
• Work with other group members as a team for all of the above.

Education/training

• Graduation from a four-year college or university with a major in computer science or information technology or related degree; OR
• Graduation from a four-year college or university and one-year experience in the information technology field or customer service field; OR
• Graduation from a two-year technical college with a major in information technology and two years of progressive experience in verifiable device support related work as listed in this role.

Experience

• Excellent computer support skills, including current Windows and Mac OS X and a good understanding of workstation and file server operations, maintenance, and repair.
• Experience installing, upgrading, maintaining, and troubleshooting RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora, and other distributions of Linux.
• Strong experience with Linux command line including OS configuration, software installation and configuration, domain binding, and writing custom scripts
• Local area networks and communication fundamentals, including Microsoft Active Directory, Citrix presentation environment, database basic troubleshooting, not limited to server-based connectivity issues.
• Understanding and basic knowledge of workstation remote management and software distribution.
• Excellent team skills, strong customer service focus, and positive personal behavior characteristics.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, or related field, or equivalent coursework, technical training, or experience.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with a customer service focus.
• Excellent technical documentation skills.
• Academic environment and/or Duke experience is desired

Special competencies/credentials

Service Now Incident Mgmt./Asset Mgmt.

          ITIL

          Academic environment and/or Duke experience

Individual must be able to lift 50 pounds or more

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