Deskside Support Engineer

Company Description

Colliers is a leading commercial real estate services company, providing a full range of services to real estate occupiers, developers, and investors on a local, national, and international basis. Services include brokerage sales and leasing (landlord and tenant representation), real estate management, valuation, consulting, project management, project marketing and research. We provide our services across the core sectors (office, industrial, retail and hotel) as well as many specialised property types.

The UK business is headquartered in London, with over 1200 specialists throughout 16 offices across the UK and Ireland

Job Description

To provide a professional on-site Second Line Deskside IT support service for the UK and Ireland offices. Responsibilities will include support of Microsoft desktop technologies, basic hardware troubleshooting, meeting room and computer room management, network patching and application support for core applications. To action incidents and requests escalated from first line support, in support of Colliers business requirements and to agreed support hours Monday to Friday.

This should be in line with internal incident, change, configuration and project management processes to agreed Service Level Targets. The role is based in the London office, based at 95 Wigmore Street, W1 and provides onsite support to all UK and Ireland offices. Travel to other Colliers offices as necessary in line with business requirements. All activity is logged and managed through the Service Management platform ServiceNow.

Qualifications

Incident / Request Management

• Provide support for all incidents and service requests for all IT systems/services
• Providing support in person, over the phone and using MS Teams
• Ensure that incidents and requests are resolved in a timely manner in line with Service Level Agreements (SLA)
• Escalate issues to 3rd line support as required, either to EMEA 3rd line or external service providers ensuring they are driven to meet service level targets and communicate the status via regular updates to the incident ticket and where necessary to Incident Management
• End to end ownership of all IT incidents and requests with responsibility for all communication and the technical resolution
• Follow the escalation process to ensure a consistent and professional IT support service is offered
• Manage all user administration tasks such as joiners, leavers and changes

Customer Engagement

• Attend and Deliver Tech Expert events as and when requested
• Provide proactive onsite training i.e. technology events, tips of the week etc.

General Operations Management

• Support of Desktop PC’s, Laptops and local hardware devices
• Management/Support of remote working
• iPhone, iPad, Windows and Android Phone support
• Manage onsite Server Room in line with IT Processes and tickets from EMEA Infrastructure team
• Hardware Procurement
• Salesforce Administration
• Change and Configuration Management
• Follow the change management process to ensure changes to the Desktop infrastructure follows the agreed process and do not cause unplanned outages.
• Work on assigned tasks associated with the Change process
• To manage and maintain the accuracy of the Desktop infrastructure components held in the Configuration Management Database by following the agreed configuration management process.

Project Management

• Involved in project management process from inception through to transition to "business as usual" as the point of contact for Service Delivery team, as directed by line manager
• Participate as a project resource as and when required to provide Desktop support and where required deliver the solution within agreed timescales
• Ensure participation in project activity is approved.
• Provide support for client meetings and AV setup

General Operations Management

• Support of Desktop PC’s, Laptops and local hardware devices
• Management/Support of remote working
• iPhone, iPad, Windows and Android Phone support
• Manage onsite Server Room in line with IT Processes and tickets from EMEA Infrastructure team
• Hardware Procurement
• Salesforce Administration
• Change and Configuration Management
• Follow the change management process to ensure changes to the Desktop infrastructure follows the agreed process and do not cause unplanned outages.
• Work on assigned tasks associated with the Change process
• To manage and maintain the accuracy of the Desktop infrastructure components held in the Configuration Management Database by following the agreed configuration management process.

Change and Configuration Management

• Follow the change management process to ensure changes to the Desktop infrastructure follows the agreed process and do not cause unplanned outages.
• Work on assigned tasks associated with the Change process
• To manage and maintain the accuracy of the Desktop infrastructure components held in the Configuration Management Database by following the agreed configuration management process.

Additional Information

At Colliers, we are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. In line with the Equality Act 2010, we will accommodate any suitable candidate requiring assistance to attend or conduct an interview. If you need any adjustments or support, please let us know when either scheduling your interview or in your application cover letter. We are dedicated to ensuring that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed and are here to support you throughout the process.