Desktop Support Specialist
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Job overview
The Desktop Support Specialist supports network solutions for the Institute’s printing facilities and provides end-user troubleshooting for software applications on Linux, macOS, and Windows computers. The role also involves installing and maintaining computer software and hardware, along with system-related activities such as purchasing supplies, database management, networking, and mail services. Familiarity with CUPS and Xerox or Lexmark printers is a plus.
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Full job description
Help define, implement, and support network solutions for the Institute's printing facilities. Knowledge of CUPS in aheterogenouscomputer environment and familiarity with various printers such as Xerox or Lexmark is a plus.Participate in other system related activities including: purchasing supplies, database management, networking, mail services, and other position functions as assigned.Provides end user support and troubleshooting for software applications on laptops and desktops running Linux, macOS, and Windows.Provides skilled technical work related to the installation, and maintenance of software and hardware in a personal computer environment.Other related functions as assigned.
How this job compares
Set against the 606 open Desktop Support jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$60–81K/yr110 salary ranges
- US median$25–30/hr232 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 70 open Desktop Support jobs in Texas and 606 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (this employer)17 open
- TEKsystems8 open
- Lone Star College4 open
- 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 (411 postings).
- Education
- 23 of the 606 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 27, 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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