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HCS Desktop Support Specialist - Raleigh, NC

UNC Health Care

Multiple U.S. locationsFull-time$21.62–31.07/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$21.62–31.07/hr
Location
Multiple U.S. locations
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The HCS Desktop Support Specialist installs, configures, manages, and supports desktops, portable computers, and related peripherals across a multi-platform network. The role helps maintain end-user productivity through problem resolution, evaluates products for compatibility and ease of use, and supports application options with mainframe applications. This position works onsite at UNC Rex in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

CommunicationTeamworkMultitaskingCustomer Responsiveness

Qualifications

Associate's in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, or Related Field or Equivalent CombinationTwo Years Relevant Experience

Full job description

Description

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

Summary:

Responsible for the installation, configuration, management and support of all desktops, portable computers and related peripherals over a multi-platform network. Ensures end-users' productivity by providing problem solution. Participates in evaluating products in compatibility, flexibility, and ease of use including the design of application options with mainframe applications.

This position works onsite at UNC Rex in Raleigh, NC.

Responsibilities:

  1. Assists in ensuring network security by enforcing passwords, installing virus protection software, encryption technology. Adheres to policies and procedures, creating user-profiles, administers files and folders security and storage capacity.

  2. Manages desktop peripheral inventory and assists with asset management. Maintains accurate records for device changes. Updates the inventory system whenever a computer is installed or relocated to provide accurate information.

  3. Participates in evaluating products in compatibility, flexibility, and ease of use including the design of application options with mainframe applications.

  4. Performs installation and configuration of hardware and software applications.

  5. Provides customers with technical support and incident resolution related to hardware and software. Provides initial training to familiarize the customer with the operation of the system. Performs desktop moves in a timely manner, based on user/organization needs.

Other Information

Education Requirements:

  • Associate's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management or related field (or equivalent combination of education, training and experience).

Licensure/Certification Requirements:

  • No licensure or certification required.

Professional Experience Requirements:

  • If an Associate's degree: No prior experience required.

  • If a High School diploma or GED: Two (2) years of relevant experience.

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:

  • Excellent communication skills. Ability to work well in a team environment. Demonstrated ability to successfully manage multiple tasks simultaneously. Highly responsive to internal customers.

Job Details

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: Shared Services

Organization Unit: ISD End User Support

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Salary Range: $21.62 - $31.07 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Raleigh

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Health Care System, in a department that provides shared services to operations across UNC Health Care; except that, if you are currently a UNCHCS State employee already working in a designated shared services department, you may remain a UNCHCS State employee if selected for this job.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email [email protected] if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

How this job compares

Set against the 631 open Desktop Support jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$21.62–31.07/hr
  • US median$25–30/hr234 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $26.35/hr, is close to the US median midpoint ($27/hr) — in the middle half of Desktop Support hourly ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 16 open Desktop Support jobs in North Carolina and 631 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most across the US
Experience
Desktop Support postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 4 years (433 postings).
Education
25 of the 631 open Desktop Support jobs (4%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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