
Operations and Maintenance Technician
AIS (Applied Information Sciences)
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Virginia • United States
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Salary
💰 $81,000 - $123,000 per year
About the role
- Provide Tier 2/Tier 3 operational support for Power BI and Power Platform solutions, including incident response, service requests, troubleshooting, and issue resolution.
- Monitor the health, availability, and performance of Power BI reports, dashboards, datasets, dataflows, Power Apps, and Power Automate flows.
- Investigate and resolve issues related to refresh failures, gateway connectivity, permissions, data source access, broken visualizations, application errors, and workflow failures.
- Support production deployments and post-deployment validation for new or updated Power BI and Power Platform solutions.
- Coordinate issue escalation with architects, engineers, Microsoft support, or other technical teams when needed.
- Administer and support Power BI workspaces, apps, datasets, gateways, capacities, and access controls.
- Support Power Platform environments, connectors, solutions, data loss prevention (DLP) policies, and environment-level settings in accordance with governance requirements.
- Assist with user access provisioning, license validation, role assignments, and permission troubleshooting.
- Maintain and support on-premises data gateways and connectivity between cloud services and enterprise data sources.
- Perform routine maintenance activities including solution validation, credential updates, connector reviews, gateway checks, refresh schedule verification, and cleanup of stale or unused assets.
- Validate backup, recovery, version control, and change-management procedures for supported solutions.
- Support patching, platform updates, regression testing, and release readiness activities related to Power BI and Power Platform workloads.
- Track recurring issues and recommend corrective actions to improve service stability and operational efficiency.
- Enforce established governance standards for reporting, app development, workflow automation, sharing, and environment usage.
- Support implementation and monitoring of security controls including workspace access, app sharing, data classification, connector restrictions, and DLP policy compliance.
- Assist with audit readiness activities by maintaining operational records, access reviews, support logs, and system documentation.
- Identify and escalate risks related to data exposure, unmanaged automation, unsupported connectors, or noncompliant solution configurations.
- Respond to tickets, service requests, and operational inquiries in accordance with defined SLAs.
- Provide end-user support and guidance for supported Power BI reports, dashboards, apps, and automations.
- Document incidents, root causes, workarounds, known errors, and resolution steps in knowledge bases or operational runbooks.
- Collaborate with service desk, platform owners, and business teams to prioritize and resolve production issues.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience supporting Microsoft Power BI and/or Microsoft Power Platform solutions in a production environment.
- Hands-on experience with Power BI Service, datasets, reports, dashboards, workspaces, refresh scheduling, and on-premises data gateways.
- Hands-on experience supporting one or more Power Platform services, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, or Power Pages.
- Experience troubleshooting user access, permissions, connector issues, failed refreshes, and workflow execution errors.
- Familiarity with Microsoft 365, Entra ID, and role-based access control concepts.
- Understanding of IT service management processes including incident, problem, change, and request management.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to support both technical and non-technical users.
- US Citizenship required.
Benefits
- Competitive Salaries
- Qualified Overtime
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Flexible Holiday Leave (88 hours per year)
- Parental Leave
- Immediate Healthcare: Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
- 401(k) Retirement Plan (5% match on base compensation, immediate 100% vesting)
- Tuition Reimbursement & Learning Allowance
- Referral Bonus Program (up to $5k)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Power BIPower PlatformPower AppsPower AutomateDataverseon-premises data gatewaystroubleshootingincident managementchange managementrefresh scheduling
Soft Skills
communicationproblem-solvingcollaborationuser supportdocumentation