Senior Desktop Analyst

Senior Desktop Analyst
3 months
Milton Keynes - x5 days onsite
273.67 per day inside ir35

The Senior Desktop Analyst role is responsible for providing all employees including field based staff with support for all VPN Desktops, Laptops, iPhones, iPads and all associated client based applications.
They are also responsible for all audio and visual equipment in meeting rooms and ensuring that these are regularly checked and maintained.
The main part of the role is to maintain and update the laptop estate and support all mobile devices following the build and security design from the Digital Workplace Lead, they will also be available via the IT SOS (Support on Site) technical bar to effectively support the business in real time.
This role reports to the Digital Workplace Lead.

• Responsible for providing 2nd line IT support to business colleagues with laptops, printers and meeting room AV equipment.
• Responsible for provisioning and supporting iPhones & iPads to business colleagues and resolving associated incidents and service requests.
• Responsible for provisioning of laptops with VPN, Windows 10, configuring user profile, supporting business colleagues and initial handover.
• Producing and acting upon monthly reports showing Microsoft patching status, backups and antivirus status of laptops, desktops & meeting room devices to ensure there are no gaps in security patches and backups, remediating where required.
• Ensuring the IT Asset register is kept updated with all changes to hardware devices, correlate with a monthly export from Active Directory.
• Ensuring incidents and requests from senior management are correctly logged and resolved as a priority with outstanding issues escalated.
• Responsible for maintaining the IT Desktop Local Working Instructions (LWI) documents, creating new LWIs where necessary.
• Responsible for managing the digital workplace incident queue, prioritising incidents accordingly and managing incidents according to priority and urgency.
• Responsible for IT Desktop Problem Management queue in HPSM (HP Service Manager) and service requests in FS.GET, working on root cause of incidents and long term solutions.
• Responsible for keeping the laptop build image updated with the latest patches and software components
• Responsible for migrating the existing laptop build images to SCCM and simplifying the build process
• Assisting the Digital Workplace Lead in planning the migration of 1200+ laptops from Office 2016 to M365 (ProPlus)

• Previous experience of rolling out M365 suite (ProPlus) to large laptop estate
• Previous experience of working with a largely remote laptop workforce
• Previous IT Desktop Support experience focusing on Windows clients and shrink wrap applications.
• Experience of working to agreed Service Level Agreements and managing incident support queues to resolution
• Experience of IT 2nd line support of Microsoft Office suite of products
• Experience of creating and maintaining laptop build images using SCCM
• Hardware technical support of Workstations, Laptops, printers, video conferencing and mobile phones
• Strong customer service focus

Desirable

• Knowledge of antivirus products and configurations, McAfee MOVE & MVISION suites
• Previous experience working with video conferencing hardware and support using Microsoft Teams
• Experience of working in a highly regulated industry such as Finance
• ITIL Foundation Certification

If this is the role for you please submit your CV at your earliest convenience. If you have not had a response within 2 weeks please take this as you have not been successful on this occasion.