First Line Service Desk Engineer
Being the first point of contact for our customers and providing back-end support for our monitoring systems the First Line Engineer role is both technical and requires great communication skills. At the forefront of the business dealing with clients issues patiently, yet proactively this position needs the right person, with the right attitude.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Point of contact for customer calls and emails to the service desk
- Monitor, categorise, set priority of incoming tickets
- Triage and first fix of incoming tickets
- Communication with customers as required: keeping them informed of incident progress, notifying them of impending changes or agreed outages
- IT support relating to technical issues involving Microsoft’s core business applications, as well as virtual environments built on Microsoft, VMware and Citrix.
- Support services for Microsoft related technologies: Windows Server, Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, 365 and Azure would be preferable.
- Technical services and support at the network level: WAN and LAN connectivity, routers, firewalls, and security
- Technical services and support of VoIP telephony solutions
- Remote access solution implementation and support: VPN and Remote Desktop Services
- System monitoring
- Support a wide variety of customer-specific line-of-business applications
- Support Business Continuity Suite monitoring and adaptive fix.
- System documentation
Additional Duties And Responsibilities:
- Work efficiently and productively to achieve and exceed SLA’s, KPI’s and profitability targets
- Improve customer service, perception, and satisfaction
- Escalate service or project issues that cannot be completed within agreed service levels
- Business awareness: specific knowledge of the customer and how IT relates to their business strategy and goals
- Develop in-depth knowledge of the service catalog and how it relates to customer’s needs
- Document internal processes and procedures related to duties and responsibilities
- Responsible for entering time and expenses in ConnectWise (our ticketing and automation system) as it occurs
- Work through a daily schedule in ConnectWise that has been established through the dispatch process
- Review IT publications and online materials to remain up-to-date with current and future technologies emerging in the industry
Knowledge, Skills, And/Or Abilities Required:
To perform this job successfully, you must be competent in performing your daily tasks self-managed. Below are the prerequisites we require to be able to fulfil this role.
Essential Skills
- Proven work ethic
- Familiar with all Microsoft technologies – Microsoft 365, Windows 10&11, Server 2016-2022, Active Directory, Hyper V
- Level 3 IT Diploma or CompTIA A+ or equivalent
- GCSE Level 4 or above in Maths and English Language
Desirable Skills
- ITIL Foundation
- Network+, Security+
- Technical background in an MSP
- Knowledge of VoIP telephony
Personal Skills
- Have a can-do attitude
- Self-starter, its not a job, it’s a career
- Outstanding communications skills, the kind client love and want to call to speak to you
- Friendly, polite and secretly geeky
- To possess initiative with an inquisitive nature, unafraid to ask appropriate questions
- Go the extra mile when needed – part of the team and extra hours if it gets the job done
- Ability to work in a fast-moving environment, multi-task and adapt to changes quickly
- Interpersonal skills: such as telephony skills, communication skills, active listening and customer-care
- Service awareness of all client’s key IT services for which support is being provided
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