Sr Service Desk Agent
At a glance
Senior IT Support & Helpdesk role at Unisys. Remote, United States · full-time · no salary stated · we estimate $104,988–$145,150 across the United States.
Unisys has not published a salary for this role. The figure below is our estimate, not theirs.
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What you'll do
- Take second-line phone calls and troubleshoot software, hardware, and network problems, aiming to resolve each issue on first contact
- Keep tickets moving in arrival order, update customers on progress, and follow each case through to completion
- Record calls, customer details, reference numbers, and troubleshooting steps accurately in Service Centre
- Meet the stated ticket-volume and service-level targets, escalating cases that need on-site support
- Share quick fixes, write a weekly knowledge script, and document process improvements for the team
What you bring
- You have one to two years of IT service desk experience and prior Level 1 support experience with Microsoft Office, Exchange, and Windows networks
- You bring an associate degree, relevant certification or license, or equivalent relevant training and experience
- You understand data and voice networking concepts and have at least five years of related experience
Who this fits
This senior service desk role suits someone with hands-on IT support experience who can handle phone-based troubleshooting, case follow-through, and service targets. The role is remote in the United States, and applicants may need U.S. government authorization for work involving export-controlled technology.
From the employer
What success looks like in this role:
• 2nd Level telephone contact support.
• Respond to and resolve customer requests, in relation to software, hardware and network operations difficulties by providing fast, efficient and friendly customer service.
• Must be logged into the call system so that HHO’s can be received
• Ability to resolve problems with or without remote tools
• Consistently achieve First Contact Resolution performance metric
• Accurately document calls and cases
• Aware of customer’s time restraints and work within those time limits
• Keep customer aware of resolution steps – if ticket needs to be dispatched
• Follow up Service Centre cases and requests to completion
• Provide clients with problem reference numbers and request numbers
• Enter all troubleshooting/resolution steps into the ticket – this information will be used for the 321 team to drive tickets to a lower level
• All tickets are to be touched on a “first in first out basis”, calling the customer on a daily basis
• Escalate tickets as needed if on-site support is required
• Resolve a minimum of 12 tickets per day (1.5 tickets per hour worked)
• Understanding of SLA requirements for the client
• Assist in cross training and communicate quick fixes
• Manage time and workload to meet predetermined service levels
• Maintain data accuracy in Service Centre through contact validation
• Understand the various media sources that interface with the Service Desk
• Champion, implement or support change
• Identify process efficiencies within the Service Centre and to take corrective action to implement change
• Discover and document process and procedures which need to be published to the team or on the Knowledgebase
• Provide 1 knowledge script per week on commonly seen tickets
• Ability to comprehend and uphold Unisys Policies and Procedures (including time reporting, attendance, etc.)
You will be successful in this role if you have:
• Associate's degree, professional certification(s), or license; 5+ years of related experience.
• Education, training and/or relevant experience equivalent to the completion of a relevant certificate course and/or relevant experience in Information Technology service delivery Relevant IT qualifications to a tertiary level
• 12 months - 2 years IT Service Desk experience
• 2-year previous experience providing Level 1 support for MS Office, MS Exchange and MS windows networks
• Working knowledge of data and voice network concepts
Preferred:
• ITIL Foundations Certification
• Microsoft Desktop Administration certification
• Analytical and diagnostic skills
This role may require access to export-controlled commodities and technology. Therefore, to conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.
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