Our MSP Client are looking for experience IT Field Engineer (2nd Line) to support various customers around East London and surrounding areas.

Must have experience of working within a multi-vendor environment

They have asked for the Field Engineers to be based in East London

You will be put through Security Clearance, to do this you must not have any criminal conviction and lived & worked in the UK for the last 5 years

Salary: 35k

Hours: 37.5 hours – or dependent on customer – 7.5 hours a day

Job Description:

To act both as a specialist in specific product areas for customer systems and provide support for hardware and software maintenance calls and implementation requests within the required Service Level Agreement (SLA). Providing both planned and unplanned backfill for Site Engineers, attending scheduled Customer Tech Bars (Surgeries), and provide customer business as normal support. To meet our customer needs and a diverse working environment, the role calls for a degree of flexibility and an expectation that the core working hours are spent on customer sites. There will also be occasions where the requirement will be outside normal travel where hotels will be provided.

Key Responsibilities:

• Undertake work and activities which support the achievement of the IT Team objectives and in accordance to the customer’s process and procedures.
• Positively promote the IT Team in order to develop the team profile and that of the wider IT function.
• Participate in internal meetings, as required, in order to share and develop knowledge and best practice.
• Provide ‘end to end’ ownership of all incidents and service requests in order to ensure that problems are resolved effectively.
• Be proactive and ensure that regular status updates are provided to open tickets.
• Build and maintain strong and effective relationships with business users to ensure that service delivery meets their expectations.
• Ensure that high standards of service are maintained and improved upon to ensure continuous improvement.
• Investigate and resolve common desktop issues in order to ensure business continuity.
• Thoroughly investigate issues in order to accurately assess what further action is required and whether the issue needs to be escalated to the 3rd Line Team.
• Support others in the team in the achievement of their objectives.

Key Skills:

• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Keen attention to detail.
• Organised and able to prioritise workloads and workflows.
• Approachable and demonstrate outstanding customer service skills.
• Self-starter who can help to formulate tactical plans to achieve department strategy.

Experience:

• Previous experience of working within a multi-vendor environment on complex infrastructure advantageous.
• Demonstrable experience negotiating difficult situations to a successful conclusion.
• Previously worked within a Desk Side environment and understand ITIL best practice.
• Security Clearance is required