IT Engineer - Birmingham
Location - B3 2TA
Salary - £34,000-£39,000
Do you have good troubleshooting skills? Are you an analytical problem solver with strong customer service and care skills? Are you looking for a transformative role? TeacherActive are searching for an IT Engineer to join our team in Birmingham.
Responsibilities:
1. Provide end user support, logging all incidents and service requests accurately and resolving them in a timely fashion within boundaries of SLA/SLO.
2. Provide technical support to IT team members and act as escalation point for them.
3. Proactively work to predict issues and the actions needed to stop them occurring.
4. Reactively identify and rectify issues and act as technical lead for incidents where required.
5. Create and develop procedures and processes for IT to obtain optimisation, process efficiency, and SLA delivery, providing advice and guidance to staff on the use of IT systems and software.
6. Work with internal and external members to develop software, programs, and processes to meet company needs.
7. Support Disaster Recovery planning and testing.
8. Lead on delivery initiatives for the team, articulating and understanding the Why and the What whilst maintaining technical focus in the How.
Role Requirements:
1. Provide responsive IT support services to the organisation from our Birmingham office.
2. Install and configure hardware operating systems and applications.
3. Diagnose and troubleshoot issues.
4. Prioritise and manage multiple open cases/requests.
5. Establish good working relationships with customers and other professionals.
6. Create, maintain, and update technical documentation regularly.
7. Be responsible for agreed key business processes supported by Technology.
8. Implement resilience and redundancy within technical processes.
9. Test software releases into business systems.
Essential Skills:
1. Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to quickly identify problems.
2. Good analytical and problem-solving skills across Windows Desktop and Server, Linux, 365, AD, DNS, IP, AWS, AZURE, LAN, WAN, WLAN, and SDWAN.
3. Knowledge of AD, AAD, 365, Mail routing, Teams Rooms, and General AV.
4. Understanding of local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs), including network topologies, protocols, and routing.
5. Understanding of security protocols, including firewalls, VPNs, and encryption.
6. In-depth awareness of Cybersecurity and maintaining accurate records and documentation.
7. SQL Server query, management, and maintenance.
8. Maria DB understanding, query, management, and maintenance.
9. Dynamics platform understanding, maintenance, and management.
10. Security awareness and understanding, with partner management and incident resolution involvement.
The Benefits:
1. 23 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with length of service.
2. An extra day's annual leave on your Birthday.
3. A life admin day to be taken when needed.
4. A charity day.
5. Private health care after a qualifying period.
6. Discounted Gym Membership and high street discounts.
7. Company-run functions that celebrate success.
If this sounds like something you would be interested in, please do not hesitate to apply!
India Buchanan - Head Office
(phone number removed)
AA01 #J-18808-Ljbffr