1st Line Service Desk Engineer

Engineering · Full-time · Western Cape, South Africa

Job description

Main Responsibilities:

  • Fully understand the service KOCHO has been engaged to deliver in line with ITIL Framework.

  • Develop and maintain rapport with end users by displaying a detailed understanding of their IT environment and business issues.

  • Provide a single point of contact for end users support using all contact mediums.

  • Quickly understanding and diagnosing issues to apply a rapid resolution or capture information to assist escalation and resolution at next level of support team.

  • Develop and maintain a high level of communication skills, excellent spoken and written English is essential to gather information and capture actions and outcomes in ticketing system.

  • Analyse the nature of queries and customer problems and provide suitable solutions within SLA.

  • Understand and operate according to escalations procedures.

  • Work with supervisors to develop new documentation and procedures.

  • Monitoring and responding to alerts on ServiceNow/Teams Channels.

  • Trending on internal & client alerts to reduce incidents and improve system stability.

Principal responsibilities and accountabilities:

  • Deliver best practice call management: investigate, diagnose, detail, resolve or escalate incidents within an agreed target time.
  • Cover 1st/2nd line level core & out of hours tickets, resolving or escalating tickets within SLA.
  • Taking calls and logging tickets.
  • Provide cover or deputise for other analysts in their absence.
  • Escalating high priority tickets.
  • Help with Queue Management Tasks as and when required.
  • Help with any other Service Desk related tasks as required.
  • Show an outward commitment to actively develop personal knowledge.
  • Follow process and protocol as instructed and required by the client.

Person Spec:

Key Performance Indicators:

  • Achieving exceptional levels in Customer Satisfaction questionnaires.
  • Ability to Multi-Task.
  • To provide a high throughput of day-to-Day Incident volumes whilst maintaining customer satisfaction.
  • To ensure that all Incidents/Requests are dealt with within contracted SLA timeframes.
  • To ensure Documentation is clear and concise.
  • Gather technical knowledge to consistently increase your own skill set.

Skills and Experience:

  • Computer related field certification or equivalent experience.
  • Great communication skills, written and spoken.
  • Positive, enthusiastic, and supportive individual.
  • Proven Customer service skills.
  • Ability to take ownership of and progress incidents to resolution.
  • Ability to work under pressure.
  • Ability to work in a team and to support team members.
  • Effective keyboard skills.
  • Communication and interpersonal skills including listening, building rapport, establishing empathy, and demonstrating awareness of internal and external issues in a calm and polite manner.
  • Analytical Fault Finding.

Technical skills required:

  • Good understanding of Office 365/Azure/Exchange, Sharepoint
  • Intune, MFA, RSA, VDI Environment (VMWare).
  • Experience of using Active directory.
  • Experience of Ticketing system (ServiceNow or similar).

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