Senior Field Engineer

GFI Digital; Kansas City (KS); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in IT services seeks a Senior Field Engineer to provide top-tier customer support and maintain critical IT infrastructure. Your role includes hands-on troubleshooting of hardware and software issues, customer interactions, and managing IT environments. Ideal candidates possess 3-5 years of relevant experience and a degree in computer science or related field, with the opportunity for local travel and hybrid work arrangements.

Benefits

401(k)

401(k) matching

Dental insurance

Employee discount

Health insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off immediately available upon hire

Vision insurance

Hybrid Schedule

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of hands-on experience configuring, deploying, supporting, and troubleshooting PC hardware and Windows systems.
• Preferred education in computer science along with industry certifications like Microsoft, CompTIA, or Cisco.

Responsibilities

• Implement, maintain, and resolve technical issues for customer workstation and server hardware.
• Ensure Service Level Agreements are met and produce accurate documentation.
• Coach and mentor junior staff.

Skills

Customer service

Technical support

Communication

Collaboration

Education

College diploma or university degree in computer science

Job description

The Senior Field Engineer provides a high level of in-person customer service implementing, maintaining, resolving technical issues, supporting, and optimizing all customer workstation and server hardware, software, and network equipment and connectivity.

Must be customer service orientated, have effective verbal and communication and provide proactive work on behalf of our clients.

Responsible for working through our ticketing system to configure, implement, monitor, manage, and support all clients IT environments including;

· Windows workstations

· Server hardware and server operating systems

· Anti-virus/malware software and remediation

· Email systems such as Office 365 and/or Exchange and SPAM Filtering

· Network switches, firewalls and access points

· Backup systems and data recovery

· Administer and maintain end user accounts, permissions and access rights

· Provide 3rd party vendor management assistance

· Produce accurate documentation related to client environments and issue resolution

· Ensure that Service Level Agreements are met for all customers

This role must;

· Setup, deploy and replace Windows desktops and laptops

· Setup and install Windows operating systems, Microsoft Office Suite, and other Windows applications

· Setup and install network equipment such as switches, firewalls and/or wireless access points

· Setup, deploy, replace and support server hardware and Windows Server operating systems

· Setup, deploy and support server virtualization such as; Microsoft Hyper-V and VMWare

· Coach and mentor junior staff

Experience

Three to five years hands on experience configuring, deploying, supporting and troubleshooting PC hardware, Windows operating systems and Windows applications, server hardware and operating systems and networking equipment networking hardware and protocols. Experience working with 3rd party vendors.

Education

College diploma or university degree in the field of computer science preferred. Industry certifications such as Microsoft, CompTIA, Cisco and other is a plus but not required.

Interpersonal Skills

The Senior Field Engineer must be customer service focused. This is a direct customer interactive role so strong written and verbal skills with the ability to speak in user-friendly terms as well as communicate with technical peers. Collaboration with peers to problem solve and find the best solution and outcomes for clients is a must.

Work Conditions

This position will have local travel with 90% of time at client sites, so a clean driving record is required. There will be limited after hours work but must be available for On-Call support when required. This role may require the ability to sit or stand for extended periods of time. The ability to lift and transport moderately heavy objects such as computer equipment and peripherals. May require climbing of ladders or working in confined spaces such as under desks, data closets, etc.

Benefits:

· 401(k)

· 401(k) matching

· Dental insurance

· Employee discount

· Health insurance

· Life insurance

· Paid time off immediately available upon hire

· Vision insurance

· Hybrid Schedule