Vacancy

3rd line Service Desk Engineer

Posted: 15th Sep 2023
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Atlas Cloud are seeking a highly motivated 3rd line Service Desk Engineer to join our vibrant Service Desk team. Experience in technical support escalation is essential.

The Role

Job title:

3rd line Service Desk Engineer

Reports to:

Service and Operations Manager

Location:

Newcastle upon Tyne

Position:

Full-time

Salary:

Depending on experience

The Package

  • Competitive salary
  • Company pension
  • Unlimited annual leave
  • A flexible working approach
  • Perkbox membership
  • Access to online private GP healthcare

Job Summary

The primary purpose of this role is to provide a final point of escalation and act as a source of experience and technical expertise to the Atlas Cloud Service Desk. The role will be focused on the technical resolution of tickets, building technical process and procedures to improve overall service responsiveness and efficiency, working closely with and reporting our ‘Project and Service Operations Manager’. The successful individual will possess a broad range of technical skills spanning both on-premise and cloud technologies, alongside possessing excellent communication and customer service skills. This is a highly technical role with a requirement to be office-based Monday to Friday 9am – 5:30pm.

Responsibilities

  • Providing guidance to Service Desk staff on ticket resolution.
  • Formalising and adding process and procedure to BAU Service Desk functionality.
  • Ensuring technical processes and procedures are adhered to in ticket resolution.
  • Escalation for 2nd line Technical Engineers.
  • Resolving 3rd Line Tickets.
  • Performing Service Desk duties when required.
  • Contributing to a technical knowledge base.
  • Providing feedback to the Project and Service Operations Manager on all technical aspects of service desk.
  • Escalation to Infrastructure Manager when required.
  • Escalation to Security and Network Manager for any critical or security incidents.
  • Providing support to implementations team when required

Objectives

  • Meeting individual objectives set by Service and Operations Manager.

Requirements

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
  • A minimum of 5 years experience working in an IT environment.
  • A minimum of 3 years experience in a support/technical escalation role (2nd or 3rd line).
  • Mentoring junior members of the team and facilitating their technical development.
  • Strong communication skills
  • Self motivation and organization skills
  • Determination to progress and develop technical knowledge
Technology Familiarity: The successful individual would rate their knowledge medium to high in the following technical areas:
  • MS Windows Server: Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy & Certificate Services.
  • Storage: FileServers, Shares, NTFS Permissions.
  • Citrix: Virtual Desktop and Apps, XenApp/Desktop, Netscaler.
  • MS SQL Server: DB Troubleshooting, Backup and Restore.
  • VMWare: ESX 6.7 Hosts, iSCSI Storage connectivity, Virtual Machines.
  • MS Office365 Admin: Exchange Admin, AAD, SharePoint Admin
  • Backup and Restore: Veeam, Zerto, Volume Shadow Copies
Desirable but not essential skills: Experience working in a MSP Environment

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