IT Support Specialist

About the Role

As an IT Support Specialist, you will be a crucial member of our IT department, providing technical support and assistance to ensure smooth and efficient IT operations. You will be responsible for troubleshooting hardware, software, conducting system maintenance, managing IT equipment, and assisting users with IT issues. The ideal candidate is someone experienced with IT help desk or system administration with excellent communications, and a strong desire to learn.

What You’ll Do

• Own onboarding and offboarding operations: Coordinate employee onboarding and offboarding activities, including account provisioning, access management, hardware deployment, recovery, and documentation updates.
• Manage the hardware lifecycle: Track, maintain, deploy, recover, and replace company hardware while ensuring asset records remain accurate and up to date.
• Tier 1 IT support: Serve as the first point of contact for IT support requests, troubleshooting user issues across devices, applications, accounts, and collaboration tools. Escalate complex issues to senior IT staff when appropriate.
• Documentation ownership: Create, maintain, and improve IT how-to guides, knowledge base articles, standard operating procedures, and internal support documentation.
• Application access and activity audits: Assist with periodic reviews of user access, application activity, and access recertification efforts to support security and compliance requirements.
• Legal hold process support: Act as a point of contact for legal hold processes, coordinating with stakeholders to ensure devices, accounts, and data are preserved according to company procedures.
• Expense and procurement administration: Process and reconcile IT-related receipts and purchases through Brex while maintaining appropriate records and documentation.
• Support Jira administration: Assist with Jira configuration changes, user requests, workflow updates, and ongoing platform maintenance.
• IT communications: Draft and distribute end-user communications regarding IT changes, outages, maintenance activities, new tools, and process updates.

What We Look ForRequired Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience in an IT support, help desk, IT operations, or systems administration role.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across hardware, operating systems, SaaS applications, user accounts, and common workplace technology.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to create clear documentation and communicate technical concepts to non-technical users.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and follow established processes.
• Ability to work standard Eastern Time (EST/ET) business hours and collaborate effectively with a distributed team.
• U.S. Citizenship.
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting employee onboarding and offboarding processes, hardware deployment, and IT asset management.
• Experience administering or supporting Jira, Google Workspace, Slack, and other SaaS platforms.
• Experience performing user access reviews, application audits, or other IT compliance-related activities.
• Experience creating and maintaining knowledge base articles, SOPs, and end-user documentation.
• Experience with macOS and Windows endpoint management.
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or relevant certifications such as CompTIA A+, Network+, or Google IT Support.

Notice to Third Party Recruitment Agencies

Please note that Onebrief does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of an executed Recruitment Services Agreement, there will be no obligation to any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without an agreement Onebrief explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, shall be deemed the property of Onebrief.