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Senior Support Specialist

Kingstone Insurance Company

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience
  • 5+ years of experience in senior IT support or service delivery within a corporate environment
  • Experience working with ticketing systems (Jira or equivalent)
  • Strong troubleshooting and critical thinking skills

Responsibilities

  • Act as a senior escalation point for Support Desk team members, handling complex or high impact support issues
  • Own incident coordination and follow-through for escalated issues, ensuring appropriate communication, prioritization, and resolution
  • Maintain strong situational awareness of open incidents, risks, and service impacts
  • Drive root cause analysis for recurring or high-impact incidents and ensure preventative actions are defined and tracked

Key facts

Hard skills

Escalation Management Incident Management Software As A Service (SaaS) Root Cause Analysis RemedyForce (Ticket Management Software) Regulatory Compliance Microsoft 365 Device Management Property Ownership

Other skills

  • Communication
  • Troubleshooting (Problem Solving)
  • Critical Thinking
  • Organizational Skills
  • Detail Oriented

About the company

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Kingstone Insurance Company

Insurance

Kingstone Insurance Company is a New York State-based property and casualty insurer serving NY for over 138 years. At Kingstone, we believe that personal professional service is the proper way to provide the insurance professional and consumer with the right products at fair prices with best-in-class service. We offer multiple lines of property and casualty insurance only through our Select Producers. Kingstone Insurance Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kingstone Companies, Inc., a public company (Nasdaq:KINS).

Company details

IndustryInsurance
Company size51 - 200

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Job description

Job Summary:

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Support Specialist. Reporting into the Support Manager, the perfect candidate would play a critical role in maintaining service quality, operational consistency, and audit readiness by owning escalations, validating support execution, and identifying systemic risks across IT support functions.

This position is fully remote, with occasional visits to the New York office based on business needs. Candidates will also be scheduled for an on-call rotation as required.

Salary range: $80,000 - $95,000

What you will do:
  • Act as a senior escalation point for Support Desk team members, handling complex or high impact support issues.
  • Own incident coordination and follow-through for escalated issues, ensuring appropriate communication, prioritization, and resolution.
  • Determine when issues should be escalated to Project Management or with vendors and coordinate accordingly. Ensure all requirements for escalation are met.
  • Maintain strong situational awareness of open incidents, risks, and service impacts.
  • Provide guidance and mentorship to Support Desk staff on troubleshooting techniques, escalation judgment, and customer communication.
  • Maintain a strong working knowledge of Kingstone systems, applications, and support processes.
  • Participate in onboarding and offboarding activities, ensuring the quality and completeness of support execution. (Onboard/Offboard QA, Onboard Meetings, Laptop QA)
  • Identify recurring issues or process gaps and recommend improvements.
  • Support audit and access review activities by validating documentation, access accuracy, and adherence to defined processes.
  • Partner and collaborate with IT and business teams on complex or systemic issues.
  • Drive root cause analysis for recurring or high-impact incidents and ensure preventative actions are defined and tracked.
  • Participate in On-Call rotation
What you will bring:
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.
  • 5+ years of experience in senior IT support or service delivery within a corporate environment.
  • Experience working with ticketing systems (Jira or equivalent).
  • Demonstrated ability to handle escalations and complex support scenarios.
  • Experience supporting SaaS applications and enterprise user environments.
  • Deep understanding of audit, compliance, and regulatory processes.
  • Experience in a regulated industry such as insurance, finance, or banking.
  • Experience mentoring or serving as a senior point of escalation for other support staff.
  • Familiarity with Microsoft enterprise environments (O365, Intune, device management).
  • Strong troubleshooting and critical thinking skills.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to identify process gaps.
  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
  • Demonstration of strong bias toward action, ownership, and proactive follow-through.
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity and high-priority situations.
What we offer:
  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • Life and disability insurance
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid vacation, sick time, holidays, and birthday
  • Peer recognition program
Kingstone Core Values:
  • We roll up our sleeves
  • We take ownership for Kingstone's success
  • We are nimble and move fast
  • You are not a number
Please note that Kingstone does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the event of a recruiter or agency submitting a resume or candidate without a signed agreement being in place, we explicitly reserve the right to pursue and hire such candidates without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted directly to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Kingstone.

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