2nd Line Engineer

Role: 2nd Line IT Engineer

Location: Didcot

Salary: £32k

Benefits:

• 20+ Days Holiday and rising (plus bank holidays)
• Flexible working (WFH incentives)
• Private medical cover
• Discounted gym membership
• Epic Christmas Parties - (weekend in Iceland last year!)
• Car Parking

Primary Purpose

The Desktop team are tasked with supporting, investigating, and resolving our MSP client's IT related systems and making sure all issues are dealt with in a timely fashion.

Key Responsibilities

• Being the first point of contact for all incoming support calls, emails, and sessions - when necessary
• Being an escalation point for all escalations coming from apprentice, and 1st line, engineers
• Ensuring all forms of support call are logged in the system and the client is kept updated
• Manage incident and request tickets ensuring established SLA's are met

• Providing support to our clients

• Help the Helpdesk Management Team with continued business improvements
• Provide support to the apprentice, and 1st Line, engineers
• Manage/Maintain all escalations from the apprentice, and 1st line, engineers
• Communicate daily to clients with open tickets
• Managing the client's expectations with ongoing tickets
• Ensure all client related problems are logged correctly
• Inform the Desktop Team Lead of any tickets requiring escalations
• Working with client's 3rd party suppliers and vendors when appropriate
• Adhere to all company policies and procedures
• Ensuring that all role related KPI's are met
• Logging, managing, and resolving client IT issues
• Maintain desktop asset register and configurations
• Undertake any other reasonable duties as required to meet the needs of the business

Person Specification:

Minimum:

• Excellent knowledge in Windows 7/8/10 installation and configuration
• Good knowledge with MacOS installation and configuration
• Exposure to Email Management/Configuration - Exchange 2013/2016, Office365, etc

• Exposure to Office365 Powershell command-lets
• Exposure to Email filter technologies, such as Mimecast, Barracuda, Sophos Email Gateway
• Exposure to Microsoft Server OS - 2012/2016/2019
• 2+ years' experience working with medium-large businesses

• Good working knowledge of Active Directory - User account creation, group creation, etc
• Good working knowledge of NTFS permissions
• Ability to learn on your feet
• Strong communication skills
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem resolution skills
• Excellent client service
• Positive attitude to work
• Strive to continuous improvement
• Able to work independently under pressure
• Minimum of 2 years' IT experience in a corporate or services environment
• Driving license and own transport

INDIT

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