On-site Desktop Support Engineer (Tech-Bar) - Central London

Job Description:

iAction Engineer – Job Roles, Specification and Responsibilities.

This role provides a User Provisioned Desktop based Operational Service & Support for multiple clients. The successful candidate will join a highly skilled team of Support engineers providing 2nd line technical support. The role will require a flexible working ethic and a pragmatic approach to IT Support, they will have first/second line support background, and have good customer service and communication skills along with methodical troubleshooting techniques.

Please note, due to the nature of the role and security clearance required, applicants should be UK citizens. The role will be 100% on-site working and as a result candidates should be able to travel to central London.

• The group are responsible for providing onsite and remote 2nd Line IT Support.
• You will provide telephone and onsite technical support to end users, on-site engineers and implementation teams where required.
• The team will investigate, diagnose and resolve incidents/problems experienced by customers where incidents are raised by the service desk:
• Security Clearance is preferable, however will be sponsored.

Typical issue encountered are;

• Desktop/thin client hardware and software issues.
• Laptop hardware and software issues.
• WiFi, LTE, laptop and desktop support.
• Peripherals such as scanning devices and removable mass storage units.
• Using Active Directory to troubleshoot and resolve customer incidents.
• Using various Citrix tooling related to user sessions.
• Solving software delivery issues encountered by customer. This involves using SCCM console to resolve faults and redeliver software.
• Apply knowledge base fixes to resolve a myriad of incidents.
• Update, maintain and administer Knowledge base
• Pass relevant knowledge onto service desk.
• Bespoke software configuration, knowledge and implementation.
• DHCP, DNS desktop support administration.
• Known problem linking and workaround fixes.

Education and Experience Required:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field or equivalent work experience. May hold entry-level or intermediate-level certification(s) in work field. Typically 2-5 years of relevant experience.

Essential Knowledge and Skills Required:

• Windows 10/11
• Active Directory
• DNS
• DHCP
• Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012R2 Enterprise
• Solid understanding of technologies/hardware supported
• General understanding of related technologies
• Excellent Customer Service
• Candidates should possess Disclosure Scotland/current BPSS clearance or be willing to undertake appropriate security vetting to achieve – with progress towards SC.
• Candidates should be UK national, no dual nationals should apply

Desirable skills and knowledge/certifications

• Citrix Xenapp.

• Any Microsoft/Citrix/VMWare certification
• Appsense Management
• Other virtualization solutions, e.g. VMware
• SCCM
• App-V
• Networking

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