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IT Service Desk

Cognizant

Mesa, AZ · HybridJobSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago

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Location
Mesa, AZHybrid
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Job overview

The Service Desk Analyst provides application support, manages user access, and resolves incidents for enterprise service desk platforms serving global users. The role includes troubleshooting device-related issues, coordinating with technical and business teams, and maintaining service levels and documentation. It operates in a hybrid work model with rotational shifts and emphasizes secure, reliable service and effective communication.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Service Desk Application SupportUser Access ManagementAccess ControlsIncident ManagementTicketing SystemsWorkflow SystemsIncident CategorizationIncident PrioritizationEscalationService Desk FrameworksDevice TroubleshootingWritten CommunicationVerbal CommunicationAnalytical ThinkingProblem SolvingService Management

Qualifications

Solid Service Desk Experience

Full job description

IT Service Desk

Location : Mesa AZ

Job Summary

Service Desk Analyst will provide advanced application support user access management and incident resolution for enterprise service desk platforms ensuring stable and secure operations for global users in a hybrid work model with rotational shifts. The role focuses on efficient issue handling high customer satisfaction and alignment with company standards across devices and core systems.

Responsibilities

  • Provide specialized support for service desk applications to resolve complex user issues and ensure reliable performance across global business environments

  • Manage user access requests through structured access management processes to maintain secure and compliant access to business critical systems

  • Handle incident tickets from intake through resolution by accurately documenting issues and following standardized procedures to restore services within agreed timelines

  • Coordinate with technical and business teams to analyze recurring service desk problems and recommend practical improvements for system stability and user experience

  • Monitor service desk queues and prioritize work based on impact and urgency to maintain consistent service levels and minimize disruption for end users

  • Execute user access management activities including account creation modification and deprovisioning while strictly following company policies and audit guidelines

  • Perform detailed troubleshooting for device related issues linked to service desk interactions to help users regain productivity quickly and safely

  • Maintain clear and thorough documentation of resolutions known errors and workarounds to enrich the knowledge base and support faster issue handling by the wider team

  • Communicate proactively with users to set expectations provide status updates and ensure that resolutions are well understood and aligned with their operational needs

  • Collaborate with cross functional teams to support service transitions application updates and configuration changes while safeguarding continuity of core services

  • Review service desk performance metrics and contribute insights that help refine support processes strengthen controls and improve the quality of delivered services

  • Adhere to rotational shift schedules and hybrid work practices while ensuring consistent coverage availability and responsiveness for assigned support windows

  • Contribute to initiatives that enhance digital workplace reliability and accessibility enabling colleagues to focus on delivering value to customers and society through secure technology use

Qualifications

  • Demonstrate solid experience in service desk application support with the ability to diagnose issues within ticketing and workflow systems and guide effective resolutions

  • Exhibit strong practical knowledge of user access management concepts including access controls segregation of duties and compliance requirements in enterprise settings

  • Apply core service desk practices such as incident categorization prioritization and escalation using structured methodologies and common support frameworks

  • Show proficiency in working with devices such as laptops mobile devices and peripherals by understanding typical problems and coordinating appropriate remedial actions

  • Utilize clear written and verbal communication skills to interact with users team members and stakeholders in a concise respectful and solution oriented manner

  • Employ analytical and problem solving capabilities to examine incident trends identify root causes and support continuous improvement of service performance

  • Demonstrate adaptability to hybrid work arrangements and rotational shifts while maintaining productivity reliability and high quality of service delivery

  • Display familiarity with standard service management principles and tools to align day to day work with organizational policies controls and reliability objectives

Key Responsibilities : Taking calls, handling tickets/chats/emails, troubleshooting technical issues related to applications, client devices, network, vpn, printers..etc, maintain service levels, adhere to client processes, document troubleshooting steps and resolve issues

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

How this job compares

Set against the 2,791 open IT Support jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • US median$70–100K/yr915 salary ranges
  • US median$25–32/hr772 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 54 open IT Support jobs in Arizona and 2,791 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Arizona
Experience
IT Support postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 4 years (1,940 postings).
Education
337 of the 2,791 open IT Support jobs (12%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 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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