Technical Support Specialist

BASIC PURPOSE

•     The Goal of the PSTA IT department is to lead, research, purchase, and manage all Authority technology through recommendations and participation of the divisions within the agency.

The department provides and maintains the infrastructure to drive change.

The primary function of this information technology position is to develop plans and strategies to maintain IT infrastructure, environments, and technologies.

This position will serve the Chief Information Officer and Senior IT Manager and will support departmental programs such as Electronic Fares and Fare Media ensuring activities are properly documented, executed, accurate and presented in a timely manner.

This is a learning opportunity whereby the qualified candidate will work on initiatives including assisting with maintenance, operation, and upgrades for virtual and physical servers, maintaining and running audio visual systems, managing virtual meeting environments, cloud phone, technical support, inventory management, equipment installation, data entry, and writing documentation.

This position offers opportunities to build on practical experience with the Windows operating system, network infrastructure, virtual server deployment, unified communications, audio visual, and backup systems.

•     Day to day this position will assist IT staff with technical requests, prepare reports, manage administration of IT equipment, budgets, and capital assets.

This is a growth opportunity providing training, tuition reimbursement and certification opportunities as warranted.

 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

•     Coordinate with PSTA’s internal departments in the process of developing forecasts and

evaluating appropriate and cost-effective business processes and technology solutions.

•     Plans and coordinate technology related activities, procedures and business processes involving the Flamingo Fares System for IT and end users, or other financial, mobility, planning and transportation technology projects as assigned.

•     Coordinate Flamingo Fares System and other program related meetings and activities with other departments and outside agencies as it relates to technology and operations.

•     Assist with the administration of the Flamingo Fares Back Office Software, IVR system, and other related systems.

•     Monitor daily operation and strategic objective of the Flamingo Fares System ensuring that the business operations run smoothly and in compliance with all applicable rules and 

regulations, including, but not limited to reporting and monitoring support tickets for problems to the system vendor.

•     Coordinates with the Superintendent of Customer Service to ensure the efficient and effective operations of the customer service team in relation to digital and Flamingo fare media sales.

•     Assists with implementing projects related to fare collection, BR...