IT Systems Engineer
£28,618 + Benefits
Permanent, Full Time
We have an exciting opportunity for an IT Systems Engineer to work within our IT Team. We are a forward-thinking, values-driven housing association, and this role is based in our Rockingham Street offices.
For our perfect candidate, we are offering a flexible role, working in a friendly team, with a great package of benefits. You’ll be working on our helpdesk system and closely with the team to resolve users' IT-related issues, which vary each day from resolving hardware issues to Office 365. In addition, you’ll work alongside our Infrastructure team, carrying out patching and improvements across our Infrastructure and proactively monitor and resolve issues.
Our wider benefits:
* Salary – 4A £28,618 to £30,939
* Working hours – 37 Hours, Monday to Friday with 60/40 Hybrid working
* Eligible for essential car user allowance of £94.36 per month plus mileage
* Generous holiday entitlement – 27 days annual leave, statutory bank holidays plus an additional 4 SYHA days, pro rata
* 5% Pension contribution
* Excellent flexible working options including Flexi Time, Condensed Hours, Part Time, and Job Share
* Excellent benefits including: SYHA Rewards - employee discount scheme, which offers cash back and shopping discounts. Plus advice and resources on healthy eating, financial wellbeing, exercise, and mastering your mental health. Westfield Health (employer paid). Discounted Gym membership, and Cycle to work scheme etc.
* Access to a wide range of programmes to train and develop you
More about the role:
This role will report into our Service Desk Manager, who will be responsible for the team. You’ll be responsible for providing 1st and 2nd line IT support to around 500 users and working with the team to ensure that we work on tickets within the agreed service level agreements for the business. You will also work closely with the infrastructure team to ensure that the Infrastructure is patched, along with proactively monitoring the systems to ensure that alerts are dealt with and resolved. This role will involve some evening work to apply updates, carried out on a rota with time back in flexitime.
Your main role will be working on our ITSM tool Halo to ensure that tickets are picked up and worked on or escalated to either 3rd parties or internally to resolve more complex issues.
You will be required to attend our remote sites to help resolve issues and carry out routine checks, along with our Data Center. You’ll also be involved in security patching of our server estate and VMware servers.
You’ll be working on building new devices, installing, configuring, and repairing desktop and mobile devices, including ensuring our asset management is kept up to date. You will work on troubleshooting networking issues and collaborating with our network provider to resolve them.
You will work on Office 365 platforms such as Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams, Azure AD, including setting up new teams and troubleshooting issues, along with SharePoint and Exchange mailboxes and groups, along with FortiNet.
Who you are:
If you are someone who is organized and enjoys working in IT or are looking to get into IT, this role would be great for you.
You will need to have some basic understanding of the Office 365 platform and how Teams, SharePoint, and Exchange Online work. Someone that is passionate about customer experience and ensuring that we provide a great service to our users. This role requires someone who can organize their workload and manage the tickets they are working on. Someone who is good at problem-solving and can interpret the issues people are experiencing.
Who we are:
At South Yorkshire Housing Association, our purpose is for our customers to settle at home, live well, and realize their potential.
Feeling settled and living well means different things to the people and families that live across South Yorkshire. So, we work with people in different ways – from our extra-care housing to providing services and opportunities that individuals can access in their home, workplace, and community, to creating houses for affordable rent.
Our employees enable us to create the best services, support, and experiences for our customers. We believe that difference makes us better, and that our services are made stronger by having a diverse workforce. We encourage and welcome applications from all backgrounds.
Please note that we may remove this advert prior to the advertised date, depending on the level of response received. Please apply at your earliest convenience.
At SYHA, we value the incredible contribution and talent that people with disabilities can and do bring to our workplace and we are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. As part of our commitments, we will ensure that disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role will be guaranteed the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview.
To be considered under the scheme, disabled applicants must disclose their disability (as defined by the Equality Act 2010) on the Equal Opportunities section of the job application.
To apply click here: https://careers.syha.co.uk/vacancy/it-systems-engineer-571984.html
Closing Date: Wednesday 6th November 2024 at midnight
Interview Date: Tuesday 12th November 2024
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