1st Line Support Technician

Based and working within a busy IT Support office in a very well-established, fast-growing cloud services provider. Venom IT is looking for someone who can demonstrate strong customer service skills and wants to break into the IT industry with a fast-moving, growing IT MSP company.

This role would suit someone who is enthusiastic, motivated, has exceptional attention to detail, are flexible and proactive, can work as part of a team as well as using their own initiative, be able to troubleshoot complex issues and take a positive approach to problem-solving and be able a good communicator both written and verbal.

Based from Venom IT office.

Location: Sale, Manchester

Work style: Full-time, Office Based

Salary: Competitive, salary negotiable dependant on experience

Closing date: N/A Always on the lookout for support talent.

Duties

• Receive, manage and record IT help desk requests received either by telephone, email or internally raised.
• Deal with and resolve helpdesk requests e.g. creation of new users, Active Directory management, e-mail account creation, backup maintenance, server checks, and general IT troubleshooting.
• Create, monitor, respond and manage support tickets of company/user/activity on an incident management system.
• Basic installation, configuration and support of IT equipment (PC, server, laptops, printers etc).
• Analysis/repair/build of new or faulty IT equipment.
• Support (fault resolution). This may include basic user training e.g. on how to use IT equipment or software.
• Work as a team member, providing support to colleagues as and when required.
• Any other duties as are within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job, the title of the post.

Requirements

• 1 Year IT experience preferably within an MSP environment
• Confident on the Telephone
• Highly Organised
• Able to build a rapport with customers
• Able to Adapt to different situations

You will not be expected to have knowledge of the following but it would be advantageous if you did.

• Hardware Virtualisation – Citrix / VMWare virtualisation software.
• Client Operating Systems – Microsoft Windows OS (Windows 7 to Windows 10), Apple OS X.
• Server Operating Systems – Microsoft Server 2003 to Server 2019 including Small business variants (2003, 2008, 2011).
• Applications – MS office suites, Citrix XenApp, Sage, SQL, Backup software, Hardware firewalls.

What We Can Do For You

What else?

• Birthday day off
• Reward gateway retail discount scheme
• Length of service bonus reward
• Personal Development Opportunities
• 23 days holiday + Bank holidays
• Auto Enrolment Pension Scheme
• On-site Parking
• Parties and Socials

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