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Job DescriptionJob Description Tier 2 Technician (A.K.A. The Technical Heavy-Hitter We've Been Looking For) Job Summary At INC Systems, we're not your typical Managed Service Provider (MSP). We've been helping businesses and non-profits wrangle their technology since 2004, and along the way we figured out a secret: people matter more than servers. Technology is just the tool we use to make lives easier, and occasionally to justify buying really cool gadgets. We're on the hunt for a seasoned Tier 2 Technician. The kind of person who sees a flashing red light on a firewall and gets curious instead of concerned. You're the technical backbone of our service team: part engineer, part detective, part mentor, and part "wait, how did you fix that so fast?" You'll own the tough tickets, lift up our Tier 1 team, own projects from kickoff to handoff, and help push our tools, processes, and automations forward. If you get a small dopamine hit from a clean PowerShell script, have opinions about VLAN design, and think "Office 365 admin" is a fun Saturday, keep reading. A Day in the Life Your day starts with a 15-minute team huddle where we talk priorities, escalations, overnight alerts, and (inevitably) someone makes a joke that's way too early for HR to hear about. From there, you're off. The morning might kick off with a backup job that threw a tantrum overnight. You'll dig into logs, pull in the vendor if you have to, and make sure our client's data is safe before they've even had their second coffee. Then a Tier 1 tech pings you: a user's Conditional Access policy is blocking them from a legitimate app. You walk the tech through the fix, explain the "why" (not just the "what"), and everyone leaves 2% smarter. By mid-morning you're on-site at a client. Maybe standing up a new server, cutting them over to our VOIP platform, or scoping a firewall replacement. You take notes like a hawk, because future-you will thank present-you when the ticket comes back in six months. Lunch happens. Opinions are shared. Someone defends a questionable streaming show. The darts may or may not start flying. Afternoon shifts into project and improvement mode. Sales needs your input on a network refresh quote: how many hours, what gear, what gotchas? A client is rolling out new software and wants to know if their infrastructure can handle it (spoiler: probably, with a nudge). And if there's a repetitive task draining hours out of the team's week, you're the type to ask, "why aren't we automating this?" and then actually do it. By end-of-day, you've closed tough tickets, made the Tier 1 team better, moved a project forward, and maybe shaved 20 minutes off a process that'll compound into weeks of reclaimed time. Victory dance optional. Encouraged. What You'll Be Doing (AKA Your Superpowers) Technical Heavy Lifting: Where the Tickets Get RealOwn escalated tickets from Tier 1: the gnarly ones, the weird ones, the "this has never happened before" ones.Troubleshoot network issues end-to-end: DNS, DHCP, NAT, firewall rules, VLANs, routing, VPN tunnels, and the occasional haunted switch.Administer, troubleshoot, and optimize Microsoft 365 tenants (Entra ID, Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, Intune, Conditional Access, the whole family).Support Windows Server environments (AD, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, file services, RDS) and keep virtualization hosts happy.Own backup and disaster recovery, because the job isn't done until you've verified the restore actually works.Stand up, migrate, and maintain firewalls, switches, wireless, and VPN infrastructure across our client base.Roll out new clients and projects (onboarding, migrations, VOIP cutovers, hardware refreshes) with the kind of planning that makes the cutover day boring (in the best way). Making the Team Better: Because No One Levels Up AloneCoach and mentor the Tier 1 team. Walk them through the fix and the reasoning, so next time they've got it.Be the technical partner to our sales team: scope projects, estimate