Job Description:

Operations Center Specialist

Office of Information Technology

This position is responsible for management and support of the services in the OIT service portfolio.   The Operations Center Team is responsible for driving our Incident Responses cases and Alerts via OpsGenie. Maintaining Application Portfolio in the Jira Service Management CMDB, coordination of all incident /problem management issues, and manages our Change Management process via Jira Service Manager (JSM).  Responsibility also includes job scheduling, monitoring and reporting for scheduled jobs via Application Manager as well as monitoring nightly system backups. 

All members of the service management team have the responsibility to work towards becoming a subject matter expert in one of the team's major responsibility areas and provide secondary support in all others.   This is a dynamically changing environment as we adopt DevOps and agile methodologies in support of digital modernization efforts.   

All team members are required to participate in rotation of 24 hour on-call for incident management. Normal business day group coverage from 7am-5pm. This position is approved for Remote Work.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree preferred

Higher education experience preferred

2 -3 years’ experience within an IT service management environment​JSM – Jira Service Management experience – preferred

Experience with automated job scheduling software

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Ability to adapt to a dynamically changing environment 

Demonstrate a service excellence focus   

Ability to acquire skills to be a subject matter expert in a service delivery specialty 

Ability to work effectively independently and as a member of a team

Ability to complete assigned tasks on time

Experience with day-to-day technical support and administration of ITSM tools

Experience facilitating requests and tasks across technical teams

Demonstrates a willingness and ability to support a diverse and inclusive environment.

Demonstrated customer service skills

Demonstrated organizational skills

Successful completion of a criminal background check and education verification is required.

Benefits of Working at Brown:

Information on the Benefits of Working at Brown can be found here.

Recruiting Start Date:

2024-12-06

Job Posting Title:

Operations Center Specialist

Department:

Office of Information Technology

Grade:

Grade 9

Worker Type:

Employee

Worker Sub-Type:

Regular

Time Type:

Full time

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

37.5

Position Work Location:

Remote Eligible

Submission Guidelines:

Please note that in order to be considered an applicant for any staff position at Brown University you must submit an application form for each position for which you believe you are qualified. Applications are not kept on file for future positions. Please include a cover letter and resume with each position application.

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