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XTN-5E1D644 | IT SUPPORT SPECIALIST
About the job XTN-5E1D644 | IT SUPPORT SPECIALIST
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Analyze incident trends.
- Identify root causes of incidents and make recommendations.
- Implement corrective actions via change control.
- Be proactive to anticipate issues or situations that impact service quality.
- Ensure that all effort has been made to identify root cause before engaging the DLs.
- Provide input to PAR process as required.
- Assess impact, benefit and risk of changes.
- Manage and co-ordinate change implementation.
- Review and close change requests.
- Work to agreed SLA and OLA targets.
- Follow documented elevation and escalation processes (refer Standard Incident Management document).
- Utilize case mastering to actively prevent SLA misses.
- Be part of Escalation as the 'escalation engineer' as per Critical Incident Management Processes.
- Inform Delivery Lead/Manager of any and all current escalations.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Candidate must possess at least a Bachelor's/College Degree , Post Graduate Diploma / Master's Degree, Professional License (Passed Board/Bar/Professional License Exam), Post Graduate Diploma / Master's Degree, Computer Science/Information Technology or equivalent.
- Formal IT qualification (CISSP, ITIL/ITSM, PMP, Project Mgmt., ISO, Unix Advanced Certifications) is a must.
- At least 5-6 years of experience within IT Operations, infrastructure services support (such as Systems and Network management, Project management/Project work/implementation, Process Management & multi-site/multi-country operations management, excellent communication skills), operations and end user support.
- At least 3-4 years of technical knowledge of the applicable platform that you will be responsible for: Unix/Linux/VMS technologies (e.g., HP-UX, Sun Solaris, AXI, RH/Suse Linux, OpenVMS, Oracle Linux, etc).
- Great working knowledge in technologies such as Web Services, ERP – SAP, PeopleSoft, DBA - SQL, Oracle DB, Network management and HP Open View Products).
- Good understanding of ITSM\ITIL processes Significant working experience in Security Management (with exposure/knowledge of SOX or ISO).
- Good working experience in Project Implementation/Management with solid track record in areas such as transition/transformation & process improvement projects.
- Must be able to demonstrate troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent understanding of ITSM/ITIL processes.
- Willing to work from 7AM - 4:30PM.
- Can start ASAP.
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES:
- Performance tuning and deep level problem solving
- Configure and manage cluster environments
- Develop thorough understanding of a number of Wintel related technologies e.g., AD, Citrix, VMware
- Ability to configure system resources for optimum server efficiencies
- Broad knowledge of storage and storage connection methods
- Assist customers to mitigate risks to data storage
- Design and implement backup solutions and provide recommendations to enhance backup/restore strategies
- Formulate DR procedures in a customer environment and carry out server restoration from data backups
- Assessment, recommendations and standard development
- Interpret what is important and what is superfluous
- Able to work on template changes
- Advanced troubleshooting of network related issues