1st Line IT Support Engineer

Our client is looking for 1st Line IT Desktop/Service Desk Support Engineer to join their busy and growing team. The role is located in East London and you will be based in the London office 4 days a week and the Crawley office, one day a week (this journey is expendable). This may be subject to change in the future.

You will ideally be a Graduate holding an IT related degree and/or completed a CompTia and possess a minimum of one year experience in an IT Support role, this is deskside and service desk. You will be supporting a large number of internal end users across multiple offices, with all 1st line queries using a ticketing system. Helping users to solve technical issues with their computers, hardware and software.

Logging the query that is received by telephone or email onto a ticket system and fixing basic problems according to your experience and then escalating more complex queries to 2nd line. Communicating and updating the user at all times until resolution. Adhering to Service Level Agreements provided by the business.

Great opportunity to grow within your IT support career path! Competitive salary, excellent company benefits and a supportive and friendly team environment on offer.

Skills/Experience/attributes:

• Graduate with an IT Related degree, ideally Computer Science or similar or relevant IT course studied at Secondary education
• CompTia is highly desirable
• At least one year of working experience in an IT Support role in a professional office environment
• Knowledge and experience of Active Directory administration
• Experience of the full Microsoft suite
• MS Office 365 experience is desirable
• Hardware trouble shooting and fault diagnosis
• Knowledge of Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams and PowerPoint
• Outstanding communication skills, face to face, verbally and written
• Strong customer service skills
• Good listener and remains calm under pressure
• High attention to detail
• Enjoys learning new skills and a fast learner
• Likes to be part of a team but also working under own initiative