service desk analyst Milton Keynes, England
Job description
First Line Analyst
Location: Milton Keynes – hybrid working
Hours: Shift pattern 7:15am to 7:15pm or 7:15pm to 7:15am
Role Type: Permanent
Life on the team
An opportunity has arisen for a First Line analysts to join a Service Desk team for one of our prestigious customers. The role will focus on providing a top-class service as a first point of contact for anyone with IT related issues. The primary duties will include receiving and accurately logging incidents, then providing resolution wherever possible or passing them to the most appropriate technical team for resolution within agreed SLAs. Although this is a First Line Analyst role, there will be 2nd line aspects required.
Based in Milton Keynes, you will be working in a large team. Prior technical knowledge of hardware and software is an advantage, but not vital as training is given to the successful applicants. Attitude and aptitude are as important as technical skills. The team has a wide range of experience with ages, we welcome applications from people beginning their IT career and also more experience service desk professionals.
You will be working shifts and there is both day and night shift patterns available. The position is a hybrid role so you will have the flexibility to work from home as well as the office in a team environment.
As part of Computacenter, you will be able to take full advantage of being part of a multi-national organisation. Once you have proven your ability, you can progress your career at other sites, in other nations or a different line of work. You can move into management, network support, software development and others, or transfer abroad.
Previous staff on the team have gone into project management, others into network support, while some have moved into team management and software engineering.
If you put in the effort, you will get the rewards.
What you’ll be doing
- Capture customer details and the issue description into a call management application, then provide additional information about possible next steps to the caller
- Resolve incidents remotely where possible and update colleagues on any un-documented fixes
- Distribute incidents and requests to other support teams
- Provide ticket updates to the customer
- Perform additional troubleshooting if tickets are missing information
- Escalate incidents where customer calls to chase, or where progress is slow.
- Monitor Service Desk ticket queues, ensuring that all tickets are fully updated and are processed appropriately
- Establish and maintain high levels of communication with customers and staff
- Analyse and investigate customer issues and requests, provide appropriate support and guidance with further troubleshooting if necessary
- Update and create knowledge articles while archiving legacy documents which are no longer needed.
What you’ll bring
- Either currently hold SC clearance or can pass the SC clearance process
- Be able to attend customer site in Milton Keynes.
- Experience of working in a 1st/2nd line environment is preferred, but not vital. If you have no or little experience,
- Good customer service and people management skills
- Can confidently take ownership of an incident then recommended fixes or areas of investigation to ensure it reaches a satisfactory resolution
- Ability to work well in a team and to support team members
- Good troubleshooting skills.
About us
With over 20,000 employees across the globe, we work at the heart of digitisation, advising organisations on IT strategy, implementing the most appropriate technology, and helping our customers to source, transform and manage their technology infrastructure in over 70 countries. We deliver digital technology to some of the world’s greatest organisations, driving digital transformation, enabling people and their business.
Job Type: Full-time
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Milton Keynes, MK7 8JU
Reference ID: 203554
About Computacenter
CEO: Mike Norris
Revenue: $2 to $5 billion (USD)
Size: 10000+ Employees
Type: Company - Public
Website: www.computacenter.com/uk
Year Founded: 1981
