Endpoint Analyst

Endpoint Analyst

Location: 29399 US Highway 19 North, Suite 200 Clearwater, FL 33761

Schedule: Up to one day week remote work after six months on the job.

The Pinellas County Tax Collector’s Innovation and Technology team is seeking customer service-focused technical professionals excited to join a diverse team that contributes to the high service level expectations of Tax Collector staff.

Endpoint Analysts are required to identify and resolve major work problems of a nature that lower level employees are unable to solve or overcome. Work requires creative and original thinking and is performed under the general direction of more senior professionals with significant latitude for individual and team initiative, judgment and discretion in working with customers to determine hardware, software, maintain functioning operations, as well as to achieve business objectives.

Analysts also perform the installation, repair and preventative maintenance of endpoints, MDM platform, and related systems while ensuring all processes and procedures consider agency and county policy / standards as well as industry best practices. They will assist in determining suitable software to meet user requirements. They will also troubleshoot software and hardware failures and identify network problems when they relate to servers, endpoints, MDM platform, or related peripheral equipment.

• Demonstrates advanced-level proficiency in two of the departmental section disciplines:
  Desktop Management, Security Management, Incident Management, Project Management, Service Management, Asset Management, Production Application Services;
• Demonstrates advanced-level job knowledge, quality, dependability, judgment, communications and initiative, with demonstrated advanced-level proficiency in meeting design specifications of computer systems, programs and operating systems, with the following core competencies:
  Analysis, Design, Business Process Improvement, Data Modeling, Development, Planning, Implementation, Test Script Development, Monitoring/Controls, Troubleshooting/Problem Solving, Documentation, and Service Motivation;
• Demonstrates technical support that fosters commitment, team spirit, pride and trust. Facilitates and fosters open communication and cooperation within the organization and with customer groups in a team environment;
• Supports organizational change that fosters a quality of service essential to high performance. Supports a shared vision and is able to work with others to translate vision into actions and meaningful contributions that drive performance to higher levels of effectiveness and productivity;
• Shows initiative; effectively manages and performs personal daily activities and multiple minor projects under the discipline of defined departmental business processes;
• Executes project plans/schedules, tasks, work assignments and critical milestones, with a demonstrated ability to focus on priority tasks;
• Identifies and analyzes minor problems; distinguishes between relevant and irrelevant information to make logical decisions; provides solutions to problems;
• Takes ownership of assignments and minor cross-sectional problems and works with a team to resolve, with an appropriate sense of urgency;
• Communicates effectively, both verbally and in writing, to peers, management and customers at various levels of the organization. Prepares and delivers occasional section-level presentations to various audiences using clear, concise and effective communication;
• Troubleshoots highly complex problems and provides timely, efficient, and effective solutions to complex technical and organizational problems;
• Understands complex software agreements and makes recommendations to maximize those investments;
• Active directory user and group administration;
• Support project teams, with the ability to lead complex efforts;
• Maintains and builds positive relationships within the Team and with members of other County Agencies and Vendors;
• Provides technical mentoring as needed to ensure that single points of failure are eliminated;
• Utilize industry best practices; champion the adoption of new technologies while working through appropriate…