Data Centre Engineer - Service Desk
c£51,000 plus £6500 shift allowance, travel allowance, bonus, pension, healthcare and other great benefits.
We are looking for a Data Centre Service Desk Engineer to take responsibility for ensuring, during shift hours, that customers’ Incidents\Events and/or Requests are processed in accordance with industry standards and brought to a successful resolution within agreed Service Levels at both London sites. Provide a value-added service to customers.
MAIN DUTIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT RESTRICTED TO:
* Receive and act on all customer Incidents\Events\Request notifications
* Incident Management – Prioritises and diagnoses, investigates incidents according to agreed procedures.
* Incident Management – Facilitates recovery, following resolution of Incidents, documents and closes resolved Incidents, Events and/or Requests via agreed procedures.
* Implementation of agreed IT Infrastructure changes and following maintenance routines
* Network Support – Uses Network Management tools where applicable to investigate and diagnose network problems, collect performance statistics, and create reports
* Customer Service - Liaise with customers regarding fault correction progress and circuit installations
* Maintain customer equipment manuals, network drawings and circuit databases accurately and efficiently.
* Install telecomms cabinets and cable installations in addition to installing and configuring customer equipment.
* Responsible for security of FM areas.
* Facilities Management – Monitor’s compliance against agreed processes and investigates, assesses, and resolves incidents of non-compliance, escalating where necessary. Carries our routine audit checks to ensure adherence to the policies and procedures.
Qualifications and Experience:
* Educated to Btec National Experience level (minimum) in telecoms (preferably), or IT.
* Sound knowledge of wide area networking and all associated protocols to perform sectionalisation and testing.
* Good understanding of Fibre and Copper interfaces.
* Ability to conduct fault isolation and fault finding
* Ability to complete rack installations of routers, switches, firewalls, and servers.
* Good understanding of Microsoft and Linux O/S and associated products.
* Fibre Optic Testing & Safe Working Practices
* CompTIA A+ Certificate or Similar