Service Desk Engineer

HedgeServ is a leading global fund administrator with more than $450 billion in assets under administration across all investment vehicles including Hedge Funds, Private Equity Funds, UCITS, Hybrid Credit Managers, Funds of Funds and Managed Account Platforms. We optimize our clients’ experience using unique proprietary technology coupled with robotic process automation, intuitive digital programs powered by machine learning, and enhanced by an extensive proprietary transaction data set. HedgeServ’s entrepreneurial and innovative spirit cultivates a productive and agile environment enabling its team to anticipate clients’ needs and consistently deliver solutions in real time. Led by the most experienced team of industry experts, HedgeServ with 1,500+ professionals around the globe expertly provides customizable solutions for their clients’ risk, portfolio management, middle office, investor relations, accounting, regulatory, compliance, and tax services. Since its inception in 2008, HedgeServ has received numerous accolades, including Top Overall Administrator and #1 rankings for Fund Accounting, Reporting & Reporting Technology, Client Service, Investor Services, Alternative Fund Expertise, and Regulatory Expertise.

HedgeServ is a progressive company with continuously evolving ways of working to ensure a future-focused mindset. Our employees benefit from a robust career development framework and clear learning paths which outline career trajectory, training and progression plans. HedgeServ supports employees through a variety of offerings, including remote and hybrid working arrangements, and fully paid comprehensive health and well-being benefits. HedgeServ was recognized as a Next Gen employer by RippleMatch on its list of 100 top workplaces for Generation Z for 2022. HedgeServ operates 13 offices in the United States, Grand Cayman, Ireland, Poland, Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Philippines and Australia.

The Service Desk Technician is a critical role in maintaining the HedgeServ global engineering and operations functions.   This role includes the support, maintenance, and the coordination of resources in support of both the tech stack and the operations technologies that facilitate their management. The position will reflect a combination of technology administration, process management, personnel coordination / call out, and the administration / use of related tool sets.

The successful candidate will be a skilled and transparent Level 1 technologist that knows how to execute in a modern, dynamic, and high-pressure environment.  One of the primary responsibilities of this role will be communication and coordination across technology teams and business users, so strong English verbal and written skills are required.  The Service Desk team provides a wide variety of services and technical assistance on IT systems across a large and diverse pool of technologies. You will answer queries on basic technical issues and offer assistance to resolve them. You are expected to perform timely and quality resolution to issues and record them in our ticketing system.  In addition, the role includes Server/VM Operations and Administration, Production and Non-Production Environment Support, along with the coordination of escalation contacts across various technology disciplines. 

This position is based in the Philippines office and reports to the Service Desk Supervisor. The incumbent candidate will work on a global 24/7 team to support any of our 10 offices located in six different countries.

Key Responsibilities

• Address Alert tickets assigned to the Service Desk team with urgency.  IT has defined SLAs in place with the Business to provide complete resolution to all Alerts.  These alerts include but are not limited to:
  • Service availability
  • Core Application Service Unresponsive
  • Disk capacity
  • High memory utilization
  • High CPU utilization
  • Application availability
  • Cluster issues
  • Server/VM outages or reboots
• Promptly respond to and resolve Issues raised in Production Support Chat Rooms.  That may require direct, level 1 troubleshooting, or the routing of incidents to specialty support teams.  Issues reported in Production Support Chat Rooms include but are not limited to:
  • Environmental performance (i.e. slowness)
  • Environmental outages
  • High priority user session slowness or unresponsiveness
  • Missed business deliverables due to unknown technical issue(s)
• Responsible for incident and service request tickets assigned to the Service Desk team.  Incident tickets may include but are not limited to:
  • Configuration changes related to issue troubleshooting
  • Core service / server restarts
  • User account problems - password reset, unlock, group membership
  • Changes to python service container counts
  • Requests to investigate isolated user connectivity problems
• Responsible for Operational tasks in Production and non-Production environments.  Including but not limited to:
  • Environment Stability and troubleshooting – analyze application logs, analyze system logs, make recommendations for remediation
  • Environment Performance and troubleshooting – analyze performance dashboard data, analyze process specific resource utilization using process monitor tools, analyze application logs, analyze system logs, make recommendations for remediation
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships by working cooperatively with others to perform preventive maintenance and repairs.
• Assist with training for new and existing users regarding existing and new technologies.
• Basic troubleshooting of network and voice infrastructure.
• Identify and appropriately use defined escalation processes for requests that require further technical investigation or the interaction of other IT Teams.
• Support the creation of standard operating procedures (SOP) to promote consistency across the various layers of services offered.

Qualifications

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Knowledge of Windows and Apple operating environments, Microsoft Office 365 suite
• Proficiency in dealing with a variety of computer systems/applications required
• Ability to work in dynamic changing organization and be able to adjust as business requirements change. 
• Upbeat, positive attitude.  We are always looking to improve.
• Self-starter, resolution-minded, outside the box thinker and doer. 
• Desired traits: inquisitive, engaged, thorough, conscientious, ownership
• Detail-oriented and able to manage multiple priorities
• Ability to work well in a team environment
• Strong diagnostic, problem solving and communication skills

Experience

The right candidate is expected to have some experience or exposure to one or more of the following technologies:

• Windows 7, 8 and 10 support
• Windows Server 2012 and 2016 OS
• Active Directory
• Microsoft Office support
• Ticketing Systems
• ITIL framework
• Manage Engine SDP, Desktop Central, Applications Manager
• Elastic (ELK stack for system monitoring)