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Role: Service Desk Analyst Location: South Birmingham Salary: £33,00 Join our dynamic Service/Helpdesk team and play a pivotal role in delivering outstanding customer service. As a Service Desk Analyst/Engineer, you'll serve as the primary point of contact for employees, customers, and partners, addressing a diverse range of technical issues from individual user concerns to widespread system outages. Your responsibilities will include: Providing 1st Line Support by promptly logging incidents into the service desk system. Managing 2nd Line Support tickets, leveraging your expertise to resolve issues escalated from the front-line support team. Ensuring smooth escalation processes, maintaining top-notch feedback and service quality. Collaborating closely with 1st Line Analysts, Service Desk Team Leader, and Development team to uphold service excellence. Deploying and maintaining software and hardware, including patches and hotfixes. Troubleshooting and managing MFD printers/scanners. Updating documentation areas such as Asset Register and Wiki knowledge base. Managing active directory/exchange user accounts and file security permissions. Assisting with backup management and data retrieval, both onsite and in the cloud. Overseeing phone and networking systems. Providing administrative support for back office and bespoke systems. Maintaining a high standard of customer service and adherence to Service Level Agreements. Contributing to occasional implementation projects for new software and hardware technologies. Offering out-of-hours cover and performing remote maintenance on a rotational basis. As an Intermediate level Service Desk Analyst/Engineer, you'll be based in our Birmingham office and report to the Service Desk Team Leader. While there's no direct line management responsibility, you'll regularly collaborate with Technical Solutions Managers, Developers, Data Managers, and Infrastructure teams. To excel in this role, you should possess: Strong familiarity with ITIL practices and Service Level Agreements. Proficiency in IT Service Management and front-line technical IT support. Expertise in prioritizing and managing daily workload autonomously. Competence with Windows environments, Microsoft Office suites, and Active Directory administration. Knowledge of TCP/IP Networking, DHCP, DNS, VPNs, and firewalls. Experience with VMware virtualization and Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure. Familiarity with HP MSA SAN, server, and networking hardware. Ability to create and maintain technical documentation. Proficiency in setting up and supporting mobile devices and managing printers/scanners. Desirable skills include understanding of Supply Chain & Freight, willingness to learn, and familiarity with MS SQL, PowerShell, and relevant applications. Candidates with A-Level qualifications or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related fields, along with relevant certifications like ITIL Foundation or MCSA, are preferred. However, we value experience equally alongside qualifications. To thrive in this role, you should have a proactive attitude, excellent communication skills, attention to detail, and a collaborative spirit. If you're eager to learn, adaptable, and passionate about delivering top-notch IT support, we'd love to hear from you. Please apply with an up-to-date CV to be considered. In Technology Group Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
Job Title: Service Desk Analyst Location: Portsmouth Salary: £25-£30 P/h Key Skills: Unix, Linux, Windows OS, Active Directory, Tivoli, SolarWinds, Zabbiz, Networking, Firewalls, Service Desk Are you a tech-savvy professional with a passion for solving complex IT challenges? A global leader in aerospace, defence, and security, is seeking a dynamic and dedicated Service Desk Analyst to join their innovative team. In this critical role, you will be the first line of support for our cutting-edge technologies, ensuring seamless operation and exceptional user experiences. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and have a knack for troubleshooting and customer service, we want to hear from you. Join our client, where your expertise will contribute to groundbreaking advancements and secure the future. The Role: So, what will you be doing as a Service Desk Analyst ? Collaborating closely with team members to carry out all day to day activities. Ensure that incidents and problems are identified, triaged, and responded to efficiently and within require timescales. Ensuring that calls are correctly prioritised and categorised. Ensuring that the Service Desk management tool is updated at each stage of the lifecycle of an incident. Proactively monitoring our extensive estate of servers, using event management systems and other tools, to identify incidents and take appropriate action to maintain and control the resolution of these incidents within in a timely manner. Liaising with specialist support teams. Following process and work instructions to resolve incidents, problems and events. Provide updates and reports on active incidents, problems and events. Proactively update knowledge articles so that the service desk can deliver a standardised and repeatable service Produce management reports from ITSM data Performing or arranging software rebuilds following system failure. Supporting the deployment of software configurations. Support of a 24/7 shift pattern, including accurate time keeping and required to support shift cover What are we looking for in our next Service Desk Analyst ? Experience working on a 24X7 Service Desk, in a high availability environment and/or ability to demonstrate previous experience of delivering customer facing support in other industries. Able to demonstrate an ability to meet challenges head on and adapt. Experience of writing and implementing policies and procedures. Relevant ITIL qualifications Ability to identify and progress improvement opportunities. Excellent analytical skills Ability to learn new bespoke systems and applications not worked with in previous roles. Experience of postal operations. Experience of ISO 20000, 27001, 9001 assessment processes Experience with any of the following technologies is preferred (however training is provided where required) Service Management toolsets (ServiceNow/Hornbill/Remedy) Tivoli Integrated Portal/BigFix/SolarWinds/Zabbix A knowledge of Unix, Linux, command line environments, Windows OS, Active Directory And understanding of Networking, firewalls, network monitoring tools My client is keen to get this position filled ASAP, so if you feel you have the skills and desire to provide passion and drive as the next Service Desk Analyst, this is the opportunity for you! This really is a fantastic opportunity for a Service Desk Analyst to progress their career. If you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as this position will be filled quickly so don't miss out! PLEASE NOTE BPSS or eligibility to gain is required to be considered for this vacancy Services advertised by Gold Group are those of an Agency and/or an Employment Business. We will contact you within the next 14 days if you are selected for interview. For a copy of our privacy policy please visit our website.