Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced IT Help Desk professional for a contract opportunity in San Juan, PR. This role is ideal for a hands-on technical support specialist who enjoys solving problems, supporting end users, and helping maintain reliable IT operations in a security and surveillance environment.
The IT Help Desk role provides Level 1 technical assistance across hardware, software, telecommunications, mobile devices, business systems, and remote access tools. This position offers the opportunity to work closely with IT leadership and cross-functional teams while supporting incident resolution, asset management, documentation, backup readiness, and service improvement initiatives.
This is a strong opportunity for someone who values a collaborative team environment, clear communication, supportive leadership, and the chance to contribute to a stable, mission-focused technology operation. The ideal candidate is calm under pressure, proactive, detail-oriented, and committed to delivering dependable support to users.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide Level 1 help desk support for internal and external IT tickets, including troubleshooting, resolution, escalation, and SLA-based follow-up.
- Set up, configure, maintain, and support desktops, laptops, peripherals, printers, mobile devices, VoIP phones, email platforms, Teams, VPN access, and remote desktop tools.
- Log, categorize, document, and resolve incidents and service requests while participating in triage, impact analysis, major incident communication, and post-incident documentation.
- Maintain knowledge base articles, user guides, SOPs, troubleshooting procedures, configuration documentation, and known issue records.
- Support IT asset lifecycle activities, including device assignment, returns, warranty tracking, procurement assistance, and disposal coordination.
- Assist with security compliance, secure access provisioning, backup monitoring, disaster recovery testing, and reporting suspicious activity or security incidents.
Compensation and Benefits
- Pay rate: $18.00 per hour.
- Job type: Contract/Temporary.
- Location: San Juan, PR.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Disabled / Protected Veterans
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Required Qualifications and Skills
- Provide front-line Level 1 technical support for hardware, software, telecommunications, business systems, and remote users.
- Manage incident and service request documentation, troubleshooting, escalation, and user communication.
- Support workstation setup, device configuration, application installs, printer support, mobile devices, VoIP systems, VPN, and remote access tools.
- Assist with IT asset tracking, security policy support, backup verification, disaster recovery procedures, and knowledge base documentation.
- 3 or more years of experience in IT infrastructure administration, IT help desk support, desktop support, or a similar technical support role.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Experience with help desk or ticketing platforms such as ServiceDesk, ServiceNow, Jira, or similar systems.
- Experience supporting Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Teams, mobile clients, desktops, laptops, peripherals, printers, and end-user devices.
- Ability to support remote users using tools such as TeamViewer, AnyDesk, Remote Desktop, VPN platforms, or similar technologies.
- Familiarity with mobile device management tools such as Microsoft Intune.
- Hands-on knowledge of printer management and print server environments.
- Understanding of backup and disaster recovery tools such as Veeam, Acronis, Hycu, or similar solutions.
- Familiarity with storage solutions such as SAN and NAS.
- Experience supporting mobile devices, VoIP systems, and telecommunications connectivity issues.
- Exposure to monitoring and diagnostic tools such as Nagios, Zabbix, SolarWinds, or similar platforms.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
- Ability to remain calm during urgent technical issues and communicate clearly with users and technical teams.
- Ability to work independently, collaborate with IT staff and business users, and contribute to process improvement.
- Willingness to provide on-call support for after-hours incidents and critical system issues.
Preferred Qualifications
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate certification.
- CompTIA A+ or Network+ certification.
- ITIL certification.
- Experience creating user-facing guides, internal knowledge base content, SOPs, and incident review documentation.
- Prior experience supporting IT operations in a security, surveillance, or mission-critical technology environment.