IT Triage & Support Specialist

Lightedge; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Lightedge is seeking a Triage Technician in Austin to be the first responder for inbound customer requests and system alerts via ticket queues and phone systems, routing escalations to the appropriate technical resources.

You will work under the Triage and Support Supervisor, collaborating with all departments to ensure swift, accurate incident handling and an exceptional customer experience.

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
• Possess the ability to comprehend and execute documented escalation procedures
• Basic understanding of managed IT service provider infrastructure and services such as servers, storage, network, virtualization, recovery services

Responsibilities

• Serve as the initial point of contact for clients experiencing technical issues and their requests
• Engage with customers on the phone and through our ticketing system to 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 monitoring a wide variety of customers’ systems, including Backup jobs, Window Server, Linux, AWS (Amazon Web Services), VMware, IBM Power, and Networking devices (Fortinet) and executing 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
• Perform other duties as assigned

Skills

Empathetic customer service

Excellent communication

Problem-solving

Prioritization

Teamwork

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Tools

ServiceNow

ITSM

Zabbix

Nagios

AWS

VMware

Fortinet

Job description

Lightedge is seeking a Triage Technician in Austin to be the first responder for inbound customer requests and system alerts via ticket queues and phone systems, routing escalations to the appropriate technical resources.

You will work under the Triage and Support Supervisor, collaborating with all departments to ensure swift, accurate incident handling and an exceptional customer experience.