IT Triage Specialist — First-Response Incident Expert

Lightedge; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Lightedge is seeking a Triage Technician to be the first responder for inbound customer requests and system alerts, routing escalations to the appropriate resources. The role emphasizes proactive monitoring across multiple platforms and a strong customer-centric approach.

Responsibilities include engaging with clients via phone and ticketing systems, documenting communications professionally, and following escalation procedures to platform engineers. Collaboration across departments is essential.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent.
• Empathetic customer service mindset and attitude.
• A superior sense of urgency and customer sentiment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Enjoys teamwork and collaboration.
• Must have excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to prioritize.
• Basic understanding of MSP infrastructure and services (servers, storage, network, virtualization, recovery).

Responsibilities

• Serve as the initial point of contact for clients experiencing technical issues and requests.
• Identify incident category and route escalations to the appropriate technical resource or team.
• Proactively monitor, report, and triage alerts for customers and internal environments across multiple platforms.
• Proactively monitor a wide variety of customers’ systems, including Backup jobs, Windows Server, Linux, AWS, VMware, IBM Power, and Networking devices (Fortinet) and execute defined processes for each.
• Ensure related customer cases are associated properly with major incidents.
• Accurately and professionally document all communication with customers.
• Follow proper escalation procedures to platform engineers during an escalation.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Empathetic customer service

Strong communication

Teamwork

Problem-solving

Prioritization

Written and verbal communication

Basic MSP infrastructure understanding

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Tools

ServiceNow

ITSM

Zabbix

ScienceLogic

Nagios

AWS

Azure

Nutanix

VMware

Job description

Lightedge is seeking a Triage Technician to be the first responder for inbound customer requests and system alerts, routing escalations to the appropriate resources. The role emphasizes proactive monitoring across multiple platforms and a strong customer-centric approach.

Responsibilities include engaging with clients via phone and ticketing systems, documenting communications professionally, and following escalation procedures to platform engineers. Collaboration across departments is essential.