IT Support Technician

**What Elastic Has to Offer**:
Elastic is the company behind the Elastic Stack - Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash. From stock quotes to Twitter streams, Apache logs to WordPress blogs, Elastic helps people explore and analyze their data differently using the power of search. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Cisco, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and Verizon, use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. Elastic offers their employees benefits like:

- 401(k) / Retirement Plan
- Minimum 16 weeks of parental leave
- Health coverage & vision insurance
- Flexible locations & schedules
- Work from home policy
- Generous vacation time & paid holidays

Elastic was built on a foundation of being free and open, which trickles down to how we work. We’re a distributed organization and have been from the beginning. Being distributed isn’t just a way of doing business—it’s a mentality that is at the core of our culture.

We’re always on the search for amazing people. The IT Team consists of people who have real passion for what they do and are masters at their craft. We reflect the larger company philosophy, to solve data problems, but focus internally on the systems we build and the internal partners we support. Agile in our processes, we strive to push the boundaries of our best-of-breed platforms to build a world-class systems operation. Our team thinks smart, strategic and scalable, and will push you to do the same. As the IT Support Technician, you will be part of a growing team to deliver customer service to our internal Elastic partners. Job responsibilities will include on-boarding, providing support to our users, and supporting the local office IT infrastructure.

This role will work from our Bangalore office 5 days per week.

What You Will Be Doing:

- Deliver the highest level of customer service in a distributed environment with a focus on helping people resolve issues as the first point of contact
- Update, maintain, and dispatch tickets routed to our ticketing system
- Onboard new employees, from setting up accounts, equipment procurement and equipment hand-off
- Installation, configuration and maintenance of laptops, network devices, printers, VoIP phone system and other office equipment
- Track hardware and software inventory
- Continuous review of business and IT processes, technologies, deployments and make recommendations for improvements
- Document and train users on IT systems and standard methodologies
- Provide A/V support
- Coordinate with external vendors to service or repair equipment
- Patch management on corporate infrastructure

What You Bring Along:

- Superb communication, documentation, and customer service skills
- 2+ years of experience providing IT support in a corporate environment
- 2+ years of experience in support and troubleshooting of Mac OS platforms and Windows operating systems
- Ability to work independently or collaboratively
- Experience in cloud-hosted solutions (G-Suite, Office 365, NetSuite, Salesforce, Atlassian Confluence, and Jira)
- Experience working with the ServiceNow ticketing system and administering the platform
- Experience working with Cisco, Meraki, and other network solutions
- Experience with routers, switches, firewalls, wireless access points
- Understanding of network protocols (TCP/IP, addressing, DNS)
- Familiarity with device management systems (ie. JAMF, Intune)
- Familiarity with IT compliance and change management concepts is a plus
- Travel when needed to support remote offices (less than 5% of the time)
- Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds

**Bonus Points**:

- Fast learner and have a broad set of technical skills - Mac (majority of our laptops), Windows, Linux
- Passion for improving and automating processes
- Possess excellent customer support skills
- Ability and interest in working in a fast-paced, high-growth setting with a positive approach
- Worked with multicultural and geographically distributed teams

**Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People**:
As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.
- Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
- Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
- Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
- Generous number of vacation days each year
- Double your charitable giving - We match donations 1:1 up to $1500 USD (or local currency equivalent)
- Up to 40 hours each