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Job title: IT Support Engineer

Location: Manchester 

Salary: £25k - £30k per annum 

My award winning retail client is seeking an IT Support Engineer to support the Operations Director by developing, implementing and maintaining a strategic plan of their IT.

Their mission is not just to succeed in the market, but aim to lead it towards a more ethical future.

Career progression: Support Engineer > Senior Engineer > Team Lead > IT Manager 

Responsibilities:

• Managing the relationship with our third party IT and system providers, including negotiation of prices and contract agreements
• Ability to contribute to the formation of IT relevant objectives and ensure delivery to time
• Monitor and maintain servers and infrastructure, ensuring business continuity and backup plans.
• Install and configure hardware, operating systems, and applications
• Troubleshoot system and network problems and diagnose and solve hardware or software faults
• Provide day to day IT support to all staff, including developing and issuing procedural documentation when required
• Ensure communication of essential daily business performance reports to key supervisors and management
• Use SQL tools to report on company ERP system as and when required
• Organize in-house system training and system support for users as and when required
• Basic Wordpress web development skills to support the Marketing Team would be ideal.

Experienced required: 

• An IT degree (or equivalent qualification) or the equivalent combination of education and experience
• Commercial awareness and business acumen
• MS office skills to a high level
• Microsoft server OS and applications including Exchange, SQL,
• Understanding of server virtualization, storage technologies, and network security
• Ability to understand and respond to user/customer requirements.
• Good communication skills
• Problem-solving and change management skills;
• Project management experience
• Planning and organizational skills;
• Negotiation and influencing skills
• WordPress (desirable) 

To find out more about this unique opportunity, please apply with your CV immediately!!