About the Company
Optimising IT provides IT managed services and consultancy, enabling businesses to harness the full benefits of technology to work in efficient and collaborative ways.
Optimising IT offers a friendly working environment where open learning, collaboration, feedback and support are encouraged. Working at Optimising IT is an ideal opportunity for anyone seeking to further their career and gain experience in a dynamic environment with other like-minded professionals. We believe in rewarding hard work and loyalty, and this is reflected in our benefits package.
These are exciting times at Optimising IT as we have adapted the business, coming out of the last 12 months with record growth despite global challenges.
Purpose of the Role
This role will work in partnership with our clients through offering first class project delivery activities, and escalated 3rd Line support, both remotely and on client sites. The role will involve direct contact with our clients at all levels from the board room to the shop floor. The post holder will need to work efficiently and professionally throughout their day, keeping customers and internal stakeholders updated at all times.
Although the role is a technical role first and foremost, with the post holder required to have a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail, a ‘can do’ attitude coupled with excellent customer service skills are also essential.
We are recruiting both Project-focused and 3rd Line Support-focused individuals for this hybrid role.
Responsibilities
Project Delivery
• Work with the project team to deliver projects on time, to the agreed standards of functionality and quality to our customers
• Attend regular project update meetings both internally and with our customers to update stakeholders on project progress
• Maintain appropriate documentation of project work and accurate records of work carried out
• Highlight any risks or issues that may impact delivery to the project team
3rd Line Support
• Provide 3rd line support via escalations from the Service Desk, as part of change delivery or in response to direct requests from the customer
• Identify the root cause of issues and, where appropriate, advise on suitable solutions or resolve as required
• Work with team members and the Senior Management Team on complex issues and incidents to provide appropriate service and resolution to the client
• Work with the Service Desk team on escalated issues, support and knowledge transfer
• Escalate issues to 3rd party software and systems suppliers where necessary
General
• Manage own workload to ensure deadlines, SLAs and budgets are met
• Work with customer in house support teams where applicable
• Provide guidance to customers on the best use of their IT Solutions
• Maintain the security of our own and our customers’ Information Systems
Skills and Qualifications
Essential
• Modern Workplace environments, including Windows 10, Intune, Autopilot and Azure AD
• Public cloud hosting – Microsoft Azure and AWS
• Windows Server 2012 / 2016 / 2019
• Office 365 and Exchange Online
• MS Exchange Server 2013 / 2016
• Networking – LAN, WAN, firewalls
• Wireless networks
• Virtualisation – VMware / Hyper-V
• Thorough understanding of Information Security best practices
• Understanding of ITIL best practices
Desirable
• Cloud Antivirus
• Cloud managed networks
• Cloud managed telephony
• Experience in a managed services environment
• Cloud migration experience
• Mobile computing
Salary and Benefits
• 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday 08:30 – 17:30
• Salary £competitive
• Leave starting at 24 days, plus public holidays, rising with length of service.
• Pension
• Private Health cover
• Death in service cover
Special Conditions
• The location of the role will be flexible, with time split between working from home and in the office.
• The role will involve travel to customer sites throughout the UK.
• Participation in the on-call roster may be required.
• Some overnight stays, evenings and weekend working will be required.
• Driving License and own transport essential.
