Service Desk Engineer

5 days a week onsite in central London - Shift required - 11am - 8pm

The Service Desk Engineer is the first line of support services to our customers via telephone, remote control software, or through on-site visits. The type of requests you will receive will be 1st through to 3rd line with 3rd line level access. To our callers it is the first experience of our high service standards, maintaining that standard is the main responsibility of the Service Desk.

Our candidates are solution-oriented problem-solvers who can thrive in a fast-paced, sometimes stressful environment while maintaining a professional and composed demeanor. They will utilize their active listening, critical thinking and communication skills to continuously provide exceptional support services while promoting our brand as a client-centric, full-service technology provider.

Responsibilities:

• Fulfill support requests such as break fix, password rests, ticket routing, etc.
• Assist customers by confidently restoring services on incidents across our service portfolio at multiple levels.
• Utilize the ticketing system to monitor and respond to tickets within our established SLAs.
• Effectively demonstrate a sense of urgency while acting in a professional, calm manner and manage appropriate and realistic expectations to maintain overall client satisfaction.
• Leverage critical thinking skills to find practical workarounds and permanent solutions.
• Use appropriate judgment and apply most effective resolution methodology to properly escalate to other teams.
• Act as a critical front-line and provide direct support to all our Clients.
• Participate in knowledge management by documenting technical efforts.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• 2-5 years of recent and consecutive hands-on and remote IT support experience in an enterprise environment.
• Financial services industry and MSP experience preferred.
• Professional spoken and written communication.
• Level 1 and Level 2 experience in MS Exchange, Active Directory, VPN Software, Microsoft Office, mobile platforms, and Apple computer products.
• Knowledge of Citrix, Office 365, Azure, AWS, MDM (Mobile Device Management), and multi-factor security a plus.
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment
• Experience with ConnectWise or similar ticketing system preferred.
• Experience with the ITIL framework or other ITSM preferred.
• Exhibit a high-level of professionalism and sound judgment.