Job Description

Sutherland is seeking a talented onsite IT Help Desk Specialist to join our growing team in Cairo! If you have the skills and experience needed to succeed in this role, we want to hear from you!

As an IT Help Desk Specialist, you'll be responsible for the following:

Technical Support:

• Provides technical support to users by researching and answering questions, troubleshooting problems, and maintaining workstation and LAN performance.
• Efficient problem resolution and maximize systems availability.
• Review the frequently faced system problems and work on the improvements.
• Strict Compliance to agreed SLA for issue resolution.
• On Call 24x7.
• Maintains integrity of systems.
• Ensure all users can access their workstation with required privileges for day-to-day operations.
• Interacts with internal clients on all levels to help resolve IT-related issues and provides answers in a timely manner. This includes Relationship Management, Communications, Meetings, and floor walks. Working with them and prioritizing helpdesk tickets response and face to face follow-up with internal customers to drive Service Level Agreements.
• Participates in problem management and promptly escalates faults in line with set procedures to the correct support agency and resolves the problem in a timely manner without affecting Business. This includes collection of info and monitors on frequently occurring problems and reports these issues to the relevant groups in order to resolve them, and ensures all of these are made known to the Management team (Duty Manager, Site Lead, Site Manager).
• Daily system maintenance checks prior to the operation/business opening hours, with ongoing support during operational hours.
• Performs routine preventive maintenance on hardware and software, to include desktops, laptops, copiers, faxes, scanners, telephones, bar-code scanners, thin clients and other technologies.
• Strictly adhere to the set procedures and follow the guidelines.

Hardware/software preparation & installations

• Responsible for preparing, deploying and installing all IT assets including desktops, laptops, monitors, copiers, faxes, scanners, telephones, thin clients, windows operating systems & applications, switches, routers, etc.

Documentation:

• Maintaining a documentation for all IT assets, network changes/activities, including creation and maintains for all system related manuals and guides.
• Documentation maintained to support compliance/IT Security and audit requirements.
• Improves client references by writing and maintaining documentation.
• Participates in Asset management. Ensure Assets are maintained and tracked accordingly by following the Standard Operating Procedures for such.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering/ Computer Science, Electronics and Communications Engineering or equivalent.

• MCSE, MCITP, CCNA knowledge with minimum 3 years of hands-on experience in windows operating systems & Cisco network environments. Certification is a plus.

• Technical experience & awareness with Windows Operating Systems, Active Directory, Virtualization technologies, SCCM, switching, routing, Voice over IP and IP technologies, Antivirus systems, etc.

• Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within information technology.

• Ability to work well with others in pursuit of business aims / ability to work under pressure.

• Energy, enthusiasm and commitment to the business unit.

• Positive response to and recognition of the need for change.

• Ability to make realistic decisions and is willing to take the responsibility for acting on their own initiative.

• High standards of integrity and the ability to motivate self/others towards continuous performance improvement and personal development.

• Willing to work on different shifts and be assigned to other sites/location if required.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.