3rd line Engineer 24 / 7

About Ekco

🚀 Founded in 2016 Ekco is now one of the fastest growing cloud solution providers in Europe!

We specialise in enabling companies to progress along the path of cloud maturity, managing transformation and driving better outcomes from our clients’ existing technology investments.

☁️ In a few words, we take businesses to the cloud and back!

🌍 We have over 1000 highly talented and supportive colleagues (and counting) across a number of regional offices in the UK, Benelux, South Africa, Malaysia & Ireland.

About the Role

As a 3rd Line Engineer on the 24x7 Service Desk, you will be the subject matter expert of our Service Desk team. Working from our Cape Town office and reporting to the 24x7 Manager, you will be responsible for designing, implementing and supporting advanced solutions across our support technologies. This role acts as the final escalation point for complex issues, drives automation and governance, and contributes to strategic initiatives that enhance our support services and customer experience.

This is a shift-based position, with a 4-days on, 4-days off pattern and a requirement to work either days or nights, including bank / public holidays.

Key Responsibilities

• Receive incoming calls from our customers, raising tickets, providing support and guidance over the phone and via our ITSM tool (FreshService).
• Act as the point of contact and final point of escalation for incidents and requests related to our services, supporting the full lifecycle of the tickets through to resolution.
• Raise, implement, review and technically approve change requests utilising the Change

Management process, attending CAB when necessary.

Problem Manager.

progress and resolution, ensuring a high customer satisfaction.

momentum in resolution efforts.

common workarounds and more complex fixes.

Essential Skills & Experience

Desirable

Personal Qualities :