IT First Line Support Analyst

Computacenter AG & Co. oHG; Hatfield; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT services company is seeking a First Line Support Analyst to join its Service Desk team in Stevenage. The role involves logging incidents, providing resolutions, and escalating issues when necessary. Candidates should have strong customer service skills and be able to work well in a team. Training is provided. This position does not offer remote working.

Qualifications

• Good customer service and people management skills.
• Can confidently take ownership of incidents and recommend fixes.
• Ability to work well in a team and support team members.

Responsibilities

• Capture customer details and issue descriptions into a call management application.
• Resolve incidents remotely where possible and distribute them to other support teams.
• Monitor Service Desk ticket queues ensuring all tickets are processed appropriately.

Skills

Customer service skills

Good troubleshooting skills

Ability to work in a team

Job description

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IT First Line Support Analyst

Location: UK - Cust. Site ENG | Job-ID: 215162 | Contract type: Standard | Business Unit: Information Technology

Life on the team

An opportunity has arisen for a First Line analyst to join a Service Desk team for one of our prestigious customers. The role will focus on providing a top-class service as a first point of contact for anyone with IT related issues. The primary duties will include receiving and accurately logging incidents, then providing resolution wherever possible or passing them to the most appropriate technical team for resolution within agreed SLAs. Although this is a First Line Analyst role, there will be 2nd line aspects required.

Based on the customer site in Stevenage you will be working in a small team working shifts from 7am-7pm. Prior technical knowledge of hardware and software is an advantage, but not vital as training is given to the successful applicants. Attitude and aptitude are as important as technical skills. The team has a wide range of experience with ages; we welcome applications from people beginning their IT career and also more experienced service desk professionals.

Responsibilities

• Capture customer details and the issue description into a call management application, then provide additional information about possible next steps to the caller
• Resolve incidents remotely where possible and update colleagues on any un-documented fixes
• Distribute incidents and requests to other support teams
• Provide ticket updates to the customer
• Perform additional troubleshooting if tickets are missing information
• Escalate incidents where customer calls to chase, or where progress is slow
• Monitor Service Desk ticket queues, ensuring that all tickets are fully updated and are processed appropriately
• Establish and maintain high levels of communication with customers and staff
• Analyse and investigate customer issues and requests, provide appropriate support and guidance with further troubleshooting if necessary
• Update and create knowledge articles while archiving legacy documents which are no longer needed

Qualifications

• Either currently hold SC clearance or can pass the SC clearance process
• Be able to attend customer site in Stevenage. Remote working is not currently available
• Experience of working in a 1st/2nd line environment is preferred, but not vital. If you have no or little experience,
• Good customer service and people management skills
• Can confidently take ownership of an incident then recommended fixes or areas of investigation to ensure it reaches a satisfactory resolution
• Ability to work well in a team and to support team members
• Good troubleshooting skills

About us

With over 20,000 employees across the globe, we work at the heart of digitisation, advising organisations on IT strategy, implementing the most appropriate technology, and helping our customers to source, transform and manage their technology infrastructure in over 70 countries. We deliver digital technology to some of the world’s greatest organisations, driving digital transformation, enabling people and their business.