Role

As a Service Desk Support Engineer, you will be a part of our Infrastructure Engineering team and will be a critical part of fulfilling Sixth Street Engineering’s mission: to establish a world-class, hands-on team that applies innovative technology solutions to drive scale and attack opportunities with the greatest commercial impact. This is an opportunity to join a focused, nimble team that leverages technology in unique and innovative ways.

The Service Desk Support Engineer will be responsible for providing technical support and administration for all internal end-user software, hardware, and connectivity. We are looking for an entrepreneurial, self-directed technical expert that can work both independently and with the broader team. The right candidate is focused on resolving a wide range of technology issues while providing top-tier customer service to our end users.

This is a full-time position located in our Dallas office.

Your Opportunity

• Identifying, diagnosing, researching, tracking, and resolving complex technical problems.
  Providing excellent customer service experiences for all end users, investment professionals and senior leadership.
• Working effectively in a cooperative and collaborative global team environment.
  Escalating, coordinating, and managing incident response for critical firm-wide issues.
  Troubleshooting technology issues related to hardware, software, user accounts, trading environments, operating systems, and mobility.
• Engaging in technical collaboration with other Infrastructure groups and business IT teams as appropriate.
• Troubleshooting technology issues related to hardware, software, user accounts, developer ecosystem, trading environments, operating systems, and mobility.

What We Value

• Proficient and impactful oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills: desire and ability to play on a team.
• Interest in finance, investment banking, and the capital markets industry.
• Results-oriented work ethic based upon responsibility, enthusiasm, and pride in work.
• Well organized, sweat the details, and be agile to respond to the needs of a fast-moving business.

Preferred Experience 

• Candidate must be self-motivated and willing to work in a team environment where good communications, high collaboration and low friction are shared values across the team and the organization.
• Demonstrated success and effectively recognizing and resolving technical issues quickly and methodically.
• Experience providing excellent, white-glove, VIP customer service interactions to technical and non-technical audiences.
• The ability to adapt quickly to a new and changing technical environment.
• Experience troubleshooting all aspects of desktop hardware, peripherals, and printers.
• Experience troubleshooting all aspects of mobility, including Windows laptops, MDM solutions, MFA solutions, remote connectivity.
• Experience troubleshooting Microsoft Office software, including Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and related add-ins.
• User and management-level experience with Experience troubleshooting issues with messaging platforms, collaboration, security, and video conferencing tools (Slack, Zoom and perimeter access controls), A/V issues, and conference room issues.
• Experience troubleshooting issues related to DNS, DHCP, Microsoft Exchange, TCP/IP.
• Experience troubleshooting issues in VDI or Citrix environments as well as various operating systems including Windows, Linux and MacOS.
• Candidate will be expected to be self-driven, organized and must possess creativity, high judgement and strong communication (both oral and written) skills.
• 2+ years of relevant technical support experience.

About Sixth Street

Sixth Street is a leading global investment firm founded in 2009. Our long-term oriented, highly flexible capital base and "One Team" cultural philosophy allow us to invest thematically across sectors, geographies, and asset classes.

We aren’t looking for any single type of person. Our strength is in our team, a collection of people from different backgrounds and with their own perspectives, united in the mission of being the world’s best investment firm. 

From how we conduct business to how we engage in our communities, everything we do at Sixth Street is rooted in our commitment to our core principles: 

• Cross-Platform: We think across the business and avoid silos at all costs
• Responsibility: We are accountable for our business, our team, and our communities
• Ethical: We are ethical and direct in word and deed
• Action: We initiate, execute and deliver results
• Teamwork: We are better together
• Entrepreneurship: We seek to innovate both inside and outside our business

Sixth Street is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer and we encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, genetic history, marital status, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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