Service Desk Engineer / 1st Line (24K) (Hybrid) (Belfast)

Job Description

Are you a 1st Line support officer with previous experience in Active Directory as well as assisting with MS Exchange and have a willingness to learn? Are you looking to join one of Belfast's largest Public Sector bodies? The look no further!

This post will be an initial 6 month contract, with a potential to extend to 2 years. Option for Permanent post available.

Salary/ Benefits

£23,949 + Holiday & Pension
Client
They are a large Belfast based Health care focused organisation. The team functions by proving support for a Organisation Wide IT Service centre across all IT Services, Data centres and internal customers. You will be joining at a time some extremely important change and projects are kicking off in the team.
The Ideal Person
Experience Required;

  • Call Handling Experience
  • Previous experience in a Service Desk / 1st Line Support Environment
  • Knowledge of Active Directory & MS Exchange
  • Experience in providing customer support

Responsibilities
As the IT Call Handler, you will:

  • Log incidents and service requests received by telephone, email or via the vFire portal from Health Service staff and third party suppliers
  • Provide first level resolution services for a number of systems (e.g. Active Directory password resets, Samsung activations and password resets, creating email addresses and managing mailbox permissions using MS Exchange etc.)
  • Liaise with customers to acquire the necessary details regarding logged incidents and service requests
  • Liaise with second level support teams and third party suppliers to ensure incidents and service requests are dealt with in a timely manner
  • Publish notifications about service outages to customers
  • Monitor the progress of incidents and service requests that are the responsibility of the Service Desk and action in order to meet SLA targets
  • Manage incident escalations
  • Provide technical expertise, feedback and guidance to customers
  • Produce incident status reports and assemble these for distribution to relevant managers on a monthly, quarterly or ad hoc basis as appropriate
  • Undertake any other duties of a similar nature and appropriate to the grade as may be assigned by the Service Desk Manager

For further information on this vacancy, or any other job in Belfast or wider Northern Ireland, please apply via the link below or contact Peter Brittain in the strictest confidence. Peter.Brittain@vanrath.com or 02890330250

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