Second Line Support Engineer

Location:	Cape Town
Type:	Permanent
Reference:	#23925
Company:	Datafin Recruitment

Your strong technical ability as a second line support engineer is sought by a dynamic internet service and network specialist for its digital business solutions to join its team. Your core role will be to provide second line support primarily within the server management and support layer, but you will also support complexities within the end user computing layer. Scope will extend to initial diagnosis in other components of infrastructure prior to reassignment to third line support / other resolver groups. The ideal candidate will need matric/grade 12, a MCSE certification or equivalent with a tertiary IT related qualification and five + years’ work experience supporting datacentre software including a solid understanding of the server environment.

Duties:

• Assist with escalations from first line support engineers.
• Provide second line datacentre support at the server infrastructure level, maintaining delivery within agreed service levels.
• Where required, escalate to third Line timeously to maintain SLA commitments, ensuring to retain ownership of the ticket, sharing detail of all actions taken to resolve and working in collaboration with third line to further remediate and resolve the incident.
• Preventative maintenance (patch management).
• Remediate issues identified by audit and monthly reporting.
• Ensure adherence to all customer and internal policies, procedures and standards.
• Perform research and continued effort towards education for the purpose of improving knowledge and experience-levels in the products/systems supported by the company.
• Operate within process controls and apply due diligence in following standard operating procedures.
• Proactive analysis of the customer environment to identify risks, opportunity for improvement and value which can be derived.
• Ensure that all tickets assigned are updated regularly (at least daily, and immediately on resolution) on the ITSM System in use.
• Ensure that complete and accurate resolution descriptions are captured for each ticket.
• Ensure that all applicable site documentation and standard operating procedures are maintained and up to date.
• Professionally respond to and resolve / fulfil all incidents and service requests assigned.
• Remain courteous, tactful, honest and professional in all communication and interactions with customers and other parties.
• Regularly update the service desk and all customers with progress-information and estimated times to completion.
• Regularly follow-up on outstanding queries with other entities who are involved with specific requests.
• Adhere to and comply with all commitments made.
• Remain calm and collected in adverse situations.
• Be aware of deteriorating customer-service within the environment and intervene directly or by escalation.

Requirements:

Qualifications 

• Must have matric or grade 12.
• Required qualification MCSE or equivalent.
• Tertiary IT qualification.

Experience/skills 

• At least five + years’ experience supporting datacentre software.
• Good understanding of the server environment.
• Ability to identify and understand problems and find suitable solutions.
• Conscious of delivering solutions on time.
• Ability to clearly articulate problems and solutions with the technical team.
• Self-managed.

While we would really like to respond to every application, should you not be contacted for this position within 10 working days please consider your application unsuccessful.
When applying for jobs, ensure that you have the minimum job requirements. Only SA citizens will be considered for this role. If you are not in the mentioned location of any of the jobs, please note your relocation plans in all applications for jobs and correspondence. Apply here https://www.datafin.com/job/2nd-line-support-engineer/

Or e-mail a Word copy of your CV to moc.nifatad@elletnahc and mention the reference number of the job.

Posted on 10 Aug 09:18, Closing date 8 Sep