Infrastructure Support Engineer

JAM IT Consultancy Ltd; England; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An IT consultancy firm based in the United Kingdom is seeking a skilled professional for a role involving monitoring applications and infrastructure, troubleshooting technical issues, and ensuring high-quality support for customers. The ideal candidate will have experience in a NOC environment or applications support, demonstrate strong customer-facing skills, and possess a relevant degree or equivalent experience. This position may require out-of-hours support and occasional visits to customer sites.

Qualifications

• Experience in a NOC or applications support role.
• Good experience in a customer facing role, typically of at least 12-18 months.
• Experience of troubleshooting technical issues, typically of at least 12 months.

Responsibilities

• Proactively monitor alerts and take action according to standard procedures.
• Take all reasonable steps to resolve issues impacting customers.
• Aid in the investigation and troubleshooting of incidents assigned to the Infrastructure Support team.

Skills

Experience in a NOC or applications support role

Customer facing experience

Troubleshooting technical issues

Education

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Responsible for monitoring key services and applications for our clients infrastructure (network, servers, applications, security, capacity). Troubleshoot to resolve monitoring alerts, resolve escalations from Support, and escalate any outstanding fixes to the appropriate teams to ensure anything customer-impacting is resolved promptly and within SLAs.

Key Responsibilities

Monitoring

• Proactively monitor alerts and take action according to standard procedures.
• Proactively monitor logs and take action according to standard procedures.
• Monitor operations e-mail inboxes for tasks and potential issues, initiating action in response to requests.

Troubleshooting

• Take all reasonable steps to resolve issues, especially in the event of any customer-impacting outages/issues.
• Triage issues to recognize the need for escalation early. Ensure all relevant information is provided to the next teams as per standard escalation procedures.
• Retain ownership and tracking of the issue and track through to completion.
• Aid the investigation and troubleshooting on any incidents assigned to the Infrastructure Support team in a timely and accurate manner.

Experience in a NOC or applications support role.

Good experience in a customer facing role, typically of at least 12-18 months.

Experience of troubleshooting technical issues, typically of at least 12 months.

Bachelors Degree/equivalent, preferably in a Computer Science or relevant subject, or substantial alternative experience.

This role interacts with the Support team and other Network/Application teams and so the individual must exhibit a “team” attitude in order to make sure Support receive the service required and Network/Application teams receive the information required in a timely and professional manner.

The platform is used 24×7 and across customer sites so there is some expectation to support out of hours from time to time, and to visit customer premises on occasion.