1st Line Support Analyst - Caerphilly - £23'800

I am looking for a 1st line support analyst to join my prestigious customer based in Ystrad Mynach. This role attracts a salary of £23'800 pa.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a talented 1st Line Service Desk professional with an aptitude for problem-solving IT issues and has excellent customer support skills. You will be working as a key member of a growing Services team, delivering quality front-line support to a variety of public and private sector businesses as well as internal staff.

Benefits include:

25 days holiday entitlement rising to 28 days after 5 plus years’ service

Holiday Purchase Scheme

2 days for personal wellbeing

Company supported CSR Volunteer Day

Pension - including option to join Salary Sacrifice/Exchange for Pension scheme (SXP)

Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme

Death in Service - x4 basic salary

Private Medical Insurance available, partially subsidised

SAGE- Employee Benefits Membership

Corporate gym membership available, partially subsidised

Salary Sacrifice charity donation scheme

Forming part of a dynamic 1st Line team, your key responsibilities include capturing and dealing with a broad range of customer requests and incidents; as well as developing our support model, building work instructions and documentation.

You will have a thirst to learn new skills in technology and delivering managed services. In return, the role offers an opportunity to work in a customer-centric environment with a diverse and supportive team, and career opportunities to grow into roles at 2nd and 3rd Line levels.

As with all personnel within the business, the individual will also be required to show:

• A commitment to comply with the Company’s Information Security Policy.
• A commitment to promptly report any security weaknesses or incidents.
• A commitment to adopt and maintain a Health and Safety culture within the Group.

Essential Skills

• Providing basic/1st Line support for Desktop and Laptop operating systems.
• Knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite, especially regarding applications support and troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, especially regarding application support and troubleshooting.
• Installation, configuration and troubleshooting software.

Desirable Skills

• Experience working on an IT service desk, especially in logging and resolving issues.
• Basic networking skills such as the setup of Wireless access points, switches, routers, and firewalls.
• Experience with Active Directory and Exchange to the extent of creating and managing users and permissions.
• Managing and the administration of desktop Antivirus software (e.g. Sophos).
• Experience of data backup and replication technologies (Veeam, EVault, Datto, Asigra etc.).
• An understanding of Printing and Unified Comms systems.
• An understanding of Virtualisation concepts and technologies.
• Familiarisation with monitoring toolsets (e.g. PRTG) and alert management.

Utilising remote customer support tools, e.g. RDP, Logmein, etc.