Service Desk Analyst
Job Description
IKO Industries Ltd. offers a supportive, team-focused IT environment with benefits designed for your health and wellbeing, along with opportunities to grow your technical skills. The Company recognizes that employee strength drives success, with a focus on helping individuals feel pride in their contributions. You will work in a progressive and challenging workplace that values teamwork and integrity.
What you’ll do
- Provide technical support to end users across hardware, software, network, and enterprise applications.
- Own the full lifecycle of incidents and service requests, ensuring timely resolution and accurate documentation in the IT Service Management (ITSM) platform.
- Follow established Global IT Service Management processes, including change management, incident management, knowledge management, problem management, request management, and service level management.
- Create, update, and maintain knowledge base articles, technical procedures, policies, and standard operating processes for endpoint technologies.
- Support continuous improvement aligned with ITIL best practices to improve incident resolution, request fulfillment, and operational efficiency.
- Establish, monitor, and refine service management processes and KPIs.
- Coordinate Priority 1 (P1) and major incident responses, including setting up incident bridges, engaging technical and business stakeholders, and helping restore services quickly.
- Contribute to post-incident reviews and root cause analysis (RCA) to identify service improvement opportunities.
- Manage ticket assignments within the Service Desk team to ensure issues are routed to the right stakeholders.
- Maintain strong troubleshooting expertise for endpoint infrastructure and enterprise applications.
- Research emerging technologies and endpoint industry standards to improve the end-user experience.
- Support application deployment requirements and contribute to modernization of endpoint management platforms.
- Work with the Network team to access network devices via console connections, troubleshoot issues, and support equipment replacements.
- Perform other duties assigned by the Manager, Service Desk.
What you bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent qualifications.
- Minimum 3 years of IT support experience, including exposure to infrastructure environments.
- ITIL Foundation certification required.
- Strong knowledge of Windows, Active Directory, Microsoft Office 365, and common enterprise applications.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Intune, including device management, policy configuration, application deployment, and endpoint administration.
- Familiarity with networking concepts including TCP/IP, VLANs, DNS, and DHCP.
- Knowledge of Windows Server and virtualization platforms.
- Strong troubleshooting, investigation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience creating technical documentation, end-user guides, and training materials.
- Ability to work independently, prioritize competing tasks, and manage multiple responsibilities in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent customer service skills with empathy and professionalism.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including active listening.
- Collaborative approach for global departmental meetings and positive influence on outcomes.
- Ability to follow IT best practices, departmental policies, and operating procedures.
- Positive, enthusiastic attitude with willingness to learn and develop technical skills.
- Excellent English proficiency required; French knowledge or willingness to build French-language proficiency is an asset.
- Valid driver’s license considered an asset.
Tools you’ll work with
Windows operating systems, Active Directory, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Intune, TCP/IP, VLANs, DNS, DHCP, Windows Server, virtualization platforms.
Benefits
- Health Insurance (includes teledoc, virtual health, FSA, HCSA & other benefits)
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Health Spending Account
- Employee Support and Mental Wellness
- Short-term Disability
- 401k Match
- Paid Vacation
- Floating Days
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee Engagement Events
- Awards and Recognition
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Service Awards
- Employee Perks & Discounts
Diversity and equal opportunity
- IKO Industries Ltd. is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.
- Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or disability.
- IKO encourages and welcomes applications from people with disabilities.
- Accommodations are available on request for candidates participating in the selection process.