Enterprise Service Desk Analyst - ITS2 - Remote Eligible

Enterprise Service Desk Analyst - Night

At the State of Minnesota, employees play a critical role in developing policies, providing essential services, and working to improve the well-being and quality of life for all Minnesotans. The State of Minnesota is committed to equity and inclusion, and invests in employees by providing benefits, support resources, and training and development opportunities.

Join the 2,800+ professionals of Minnesota IT Services who connect Minnesotans to services that will improve their lives. This position will be part of the Enterprise Services team, which delivers a full suite of services to state agencies, boards, councils, and commissions, and many central services to local government partners.

There are four (4) primary areas of support:

General Triage:

The General Triage teams' primary function is to provide broad first tier support for all Enterprise systems in scope. This includes access issues, state provided laptop and desktop computers and associated peripherals and software, Microsoft Office, including email, Teams and SharePoint, network connectivity, remote connectivity and VPN, virtual computing, and some bespoke enterprise systems.

Telecommunications:

In addition to the activities performed by the General Triage team, most of the Telecommunication team's focus is on higher functions around provisioning, supporting, and retiring desk phones and softphones, processing telecoms-related orders, and dealing with support requests around conferencing technologies.

Mobile Device Management and M365:

In addition to the activities performed by the General Triage team, most of the Mobile Device team's focus is on supporting Mobile Devices (Smartphones, tablets) including set up, coaching, and troubleshooting issues, as well as delivering higher level support around Microsoft 365 hybrid cloud/on premises-based services.

Access Fulfillment and On/Off-boarding:

In addition to the activities performed by the General Triage team, the majority of these teams' focus is on provisioning new accounts for onboarding, ad hoc changes to access for existing staff, internal transfer of staff and deprovisioning in the event of offboarding.

The Enterprise Service Desk is a 24/7 operation. Shifts include standard work week hours and non-standard work week and weekend hours to provide 24-hour coverage, 7 days a week.

This position is currently eligible for full-time telework if residing in Minnesota or a bordering state within 50 miles of 600 N. Robert Street, St. Paul, Minnesota. Service Desk employees are working from home under a temporary exception to the standard telework policy requiring employees to be in the office 50% if residing within 50 miles of the work location. This exception may change with notice depending on business needs.

Minimum Qualifications:

Position requires a minimum of two (2) years of IT related phone or remote customer IT Service Desk experience.

Experience must include:

• User Permissions and Active Directory (AD), Exchange Admin Console (EAC), Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM).
• Remote customer service working with ticketing systems, remote support tools and IT Service Management. Incident, Service Request and Knowledge Management best practices, including documenting tickets and knowledge articles, triaging, managing, and assigning tickets across the organization.
• Troubleshooting skills and ability to diagnose/resolve software, network, system, and telephone problems using remote support tools (e.g. Beyond Trust, Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager MECM).
• Management of Microsoft Office/M365, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and Mobile Device Management (MDM).
• Support of office collaboration, conferencing tools, and soft phones (e.g. Microsoft Teams).
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and effectively in a manner that facilitates mutual understanding.
• Customer-focused approach grounded in active listening, empathy, and solution-oriented problem-solving to deliver positive user experiences.

Education in Information Technology (IT) or an IT related field may substitute for experience as follows: a master's degree for eighteen (18) months of experience; a bachelor's degree for one (1) year; and an associate's degree for six (6) months.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Two (2) or more years of recent professional IT support experience, in an Enterprise Service Desk.
• ITIL Foundations training and certification, and experience working in an IT Service Management Culture to productivity metrics.
• Onboarding/Offboarding Account Administration (accounts, permissions, email, etc.).
• Systems Experience using: RSA, Microsoft InTune, CoPilot, Azure Virtual Desktop, Entra, ServiceNow, PowerShell, Power BI, Power Platform.
• Ability to analyze ticket patterns, identify recurring problems, and collaborate with higher-level teams to prevent rework or recurring incidents.
• Demonstrated initiative and accountability in daily work, including ownership of assigned queues and proactive follow-up with customers or partner teams.

Additional Requirements:

• SEMA4 Records Check (applies to current and past state employees only)
• Criminal History Check
• Reference Check
• Social Security and Address Verification
• Education Verification
• CJIS Background Check
• Other legally required checks

Minnesota IT Services does not participate in the federal E-Verify program. Minnesota IT Services is unable to sponsor applicants for work visas, including F-1 STEM OPT extensions, and cannot complete Form I-983 or any other documentation requiring employer participation in E-Verify. All applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of application.

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities is an Equal Opportunity employer/educator committed to the principles of diversity. We prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their race, sex, color, creed, religion, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or membership in a local commission as defined by law. As an affirmative action employer, we actively seek and encourage applications from women, minorities, persons with disabilities, and individuals with protected veteran status.

Reasonable accommodations will be made to all qualified applicants with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability who needs assistance or cannot access the online job application system, please contact the job information line at 651-259-3637 or email careers@state.mn.us. Please indicate what assistance is needed.