2nd Line Support Engineer (AzureInfra18) Guildford, England
Salary: | GBP25000 - GBP40000 per annum + Benefits, Flexi working hours, remote |
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- To provide 2nd line technical support, answering support queries via phone, email and ticket allocation.
- Monitoring the core managed service platform and application layer to identify incidents/problems and resolving proactively.
- To maintain a high degree of customer service for all support queries and adhere to all service management principles, working to defined SLA’s.
- Maintaining and improving production servers, applications and networking.
- Ensure uptime and resilience of core Managed Service platform.
- Maintain the integrity of IT security to protect and safeguard IP and data by managing a continuous data loss prevention programme.
- Engage with third-party hosting provider regarding any incidents/problems where required.
- Ensure that all IT incidents are recorded, diagnosed, resolved or escalated to the appropriate person or vendor working to keep/ensure service level agreements.
- Provide out of hours Infrastructure and Application support for outage incidents and work to agree with a workable patching schedule out of core business hours.
- Any other duties as and when required.
Technical Skills Required
- Strong working knowledge of deploying, configuring, troubleshooting and supporting Microsoft technologies
- A good working knowledge of SQL Server and a good understanding of SQL scripting is essential.
- Windows server (AD, GPO, CA, DNS, DHCP, WSUS, HYPER-V).
- IIS
- Perfmon – Data collection and analysis.
- Windows system security patching.
- Working knowledge and experience managing networks:
- TCP/IP, HTTPS, DNS, Routers/Firewalls, VLANs, VPN, Reverse Proxy.
- Network monitoring
- Experience in building systems and deploying applications:
- Documentation and effective user handover.
- Working knowledge of IT security:
- Deploying and managing endpoint protection.
- Monitoring and ensuring systems are up to date (WSUS, applications, firmware, drivers, networking).
- Previous experience working within a hosting / managed service organization in a Support capacity.
- Change Management.
- Monitoring and alerting / event management.
- Capacity monitoring.
- Availability monitoring.
- Anti-virus management.
- Backup management.
- DR tests.
- Experience working in a commercial Helpdesk or Support role, effectively communicating with end users and teams.
Additional Preferred Skills
- Experience of working with and supporting financial or fraud management applications.
- Experience working with Microsoft Azure and Operational Monitoring System (OMS)
- Working knowledge of Linux operating systems (CentOS, Redhat).
- Linux system security patching.
- Understanding of PCI-DSS standards.
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (2011)
- ITIL® Foundation certificate
Essential Organisational Skills
- Excellent communicator.
- Must be a team player.
- Ability to document processes and procedures.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills.
- Time management.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Flexible approach to working hours.
Essential Aptitude / Knowledge skills
- Good analytical / problem-solving skills.
- Motivated to continually develop technical skills.
What the company offers:
- Competitive Salary
- 25 days holiday
- Contributory pension scheme
- Life insurance
- Private healthcare
Salary: £25k -£40Kp.a (Depending on experience)
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