Job description
About the Role
This is a demanding role which calls for excellent service skills, the ability to think outside of the box and to work well as part of a team. A large proportion of this role requires you to monitor and maintain computer systems and networks, diagnose incidents and support roll-outs of new software. You will be required to answer telephone calls, handle correspondence and complete ad-hoc tasks delegated to you by the leadership team.
We expect a level of understanding of the following products: Service Management tools such as Hornbill and Service Now: Tivoli Integrated Portal, Big fix; solar winds; Oracle; Java; AIX; Linux; Windows Server and clustered; firewalls; LAN / WAN.
Responsibilities
- Using the Service Desk management tool, you will create and assign incidents and Service Requests.
- Ensuring that the Service Desk management tool is updated at each stage of the lifecycle of an incident.
- Assessing and prioritising of faults.
- Monitoring our extensive estate of servers, using Tivoli management system(s) and other tools, to identify incidents and take appropriate action to maintain and control the resolution of these incidents within in a timely manner.
- Liaison with specialist support teams.
- Follow procedures and diagrams to resolve incidents
- Provide a competent level of out-of-hours support for our customers.
- Provide regular internal and customer reports on incident status.
- Liaising and managing the response of 3rd party suppliers.
- Performing or arranging software rebuilds following system failure.
- Producing ad-hoc procedures to support task activity.
- Supporting the deployment of software configurations.
- Providing at desk training for new members of staff as required.
- Supporting customer visits to the area by demonstrating general tasks as required.
Shift work
- Operations Engineer’s work a shift pattern on a rotational basis to provide essential support to our customers. The Service desk is operational on a 24/7 basis 365 days a year. The current shift pattern consists of earlies 6am start, lates 2pm start and nights10pm start and each shift is 8 hours in length. Weekend cover is provided by extended working days on Saturday and Sunday and on call support for weekend nights
The role will not be authorized to provide services to Lockheed Martin, which are directly related to business development, acquisition, or sales efforts for a Lockheed Martin customer or potential customer. Any exception to this rule can only be granted, in advance, by the Lockheed Martin UK Ltd, Integrated Systems, Havant representative or legal counsel representative.
Required skills, qualifications and experience
- Technical qualifications regarding the applications listed.
- Working experience with Service Management tools i.e. Service Now and Asset Management applications.
- Experience working in an operation support environment
- ITIL V3/V4 Foundation.
- Understanding of Tivoli applications.
- Ability to research and critically analyse data.
- Understanding of Service Management tools such as; Hornbill and Service Now: Tivoli Integrated Portal, Big fix; solar winds; Oracle; Java; AIX; Linux; Windows Server and clustered; firewalls; LAN / WAN.
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What we offer you
We are an employer in support of and offering Flexible working with the option to also work a 4 day week depending on business requirements, where you have the option of Fridays off. We offer Competitive salaries alongside a flexible holiday entitlement.
We have a Wealth of benefits available to you that can be selected through our wellbeing tool upon commencement of employment. Just a few of our amazing benefits are shown below:
- Private Medical Insurance
- Competitive Pension
- Dental
- Critical Illness
- Life Assurance
- Travel Insurance
- Employee discounts for top high street shops
- Employee Assistance Program which includes free face to face counselling sessions, Legal advice, Financial advice, etc
- Internal training and development alongside out Education assistance programmes
- Reimbursement for a professional membership
- Competitive policies that support flexibility and family leave inclusive of enhanced maternity leave
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