Global IT Service Management Specialist

This is an exciting opportunity to work as a Global IT Service Management Analyst.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing the lifecycle of all unplanned interruptions, malfunctions, and quality reductions of provided IT services throughout the enterprise. Their main goals are to follow incident management protocols and restore provided IT services to normal operation as quickly as possible with the least impact on the business or the user as well as present technical-to-business translated reports to clients.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Ensure that incidents and resolutions are properly executed and documented.
• Work on other projects/issues of low to medium complexity as assigned.
• Communicate with clients and partners to ensure clarity and uniformity in relaying any hindrance of operating procedures and processes via notifications.
• Trigger and ensure Management or Technical Escalation in case of technical crisis with close follow-up on the escalation and continuous communication.
• Debrief in real-time and report to management on incident resolution.
• Provide a technical and customer impact analysis of every incident to set the appropriate incident priority, escalate blocking issues, and cooperate with Service Management and Account managers to support and provide problem direction to technical teams.
• Continuously inform all stakeholders on the status of their problem through Incident Notification.
• Ensure and follow up SLA and push for a short MTTR (Mean Time to Repair) to reduce client impact.
• Draft and relay technically written reports for both business and technical audiences.
• Deal with desktop support issues i.e. Application issues (Microsoft Office applications, client-provided applications, in-house developed applications); ensuring and applying essential updates & fixes.
• Basic knowledge of Networks (IP-related issues, router/hub/switch related issues, using network commands to troubleshoot, ping, nslookup, ipconfig, tracert, circuits, topologies, routing protocols).

• Bachelor's Degree or above in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field(s).
• Experience in ServiceDesk, Access, Incident, Change, Problem Management and IT Infrastructure will be preferred.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Technical writing skills.
• Ability to facilitate, drive, orchestrate, and lead large diverse groups.
• Ability to understand and take charge of ongoing incidents and drive them towards resolution.
• Willingness to learn and grow.
• Able to handle crisis-situations and define priorities under pressure but within fixed procedures.
• General technical knowledge in Mobile Access, Core IT/Telco, software and services.
• Good analytical skills.
• Strong grasp on basic to intermediate computing/networking concepts.
• Ability to translate technical concepts into clear business-driven reports detailing computing/disaster and other factors affected usual business operations.
• Due to the nature of this work, must be able to work unconventional shifts (on call/afterhours/weekends).
• Strong grasp of ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library).
• Ability to coordinate with team(s) of different skill sets to share and obtain technical information.
• Ability to interact with senior management, external client organizations, and vendors.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and flexibility to multi-task across tasks with varying deadlines.
• Ability to comprehend Native North American, British, or Neutral Language Accents.
• High energy, self-starter with bias for action and sense of urgency to deliver results.
• Proactively identifying process improvement opportunities and ability to communicate to the management with evidence and data.