3rd Line Systems Engineer
The 3rd Line Systems Engineer will form part of a dynamic team of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd line engineers based in Cape Town, delivering SLA-backed services remotely as part of our technical support offering. Reporting to the Service Desk Manager, this role requires a proactive, collaborative team member who is very strong technically and able to work European standard office hours, as per customer requirements. The candidate will be required to form part of a 24x7x365 on-call rota after successful completion of probation and training.
Duties & Responsibilities
Key Accountabilities
- Logging and progressing support tickets (incidents & changes) through our MSP systems.
- Provide remote 3rd line technical IT support for tickets escalated.
- Troubleshoot and resolve hardware and software related incidents based on Microsoft systems.
- Resolve incidents within agreed first-time-fix parameters and escalate within the team where required, complying with contracted SLAs.
- Take ownership of incidents and manage through to resolution where possible.
- Attend to proactive and reactive monitoring alerts in order to ensure minimum disruption to customers.
- Meet client expectations in terms of quality of work and delivery to deadlines.
- Action customer enquiries effectively in a timely fashion as per prescribed SLA.
- Produce information reports upon request.
- Build and maintain Viadex reputation & customer relationships.
Desired Experience & Qualification
Required Skills & Experience
Matric or equivalent secondary educationVMware VCPMCSE / MCITP or multiple MCP certifications5+ years’ experience in an IT Service Desk support environment (3rd line support)5+ years’ experience supporting VMware hypervisor (1+ year exposure to VMware NSX and vSAN)5+ years’ experience supporting Cisco / HPE networking environments3+ years’ experience supporting firewalls (FortiGate, WatchGuard, Cisco)3+ years' experience supporting SAN storage5+ years’ experience supporting Microsoft Systems; Servers, Exchange / 365, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, etc.Exposure to HP, Dell & Cisco datacentre hardware, software, and storage technologies.Exposure to modern Backup & Disaster Recovery technologies (Veeam, Zerto)Exposure to Public Cloud (Azure, AWS) and / or VMware-based Private Cloud (IaaS, DRaaS, BaaS)Package & Remuneration
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What WE will provide YOU
Global and national travel opportunitiesFree parkingLife AssuranceFunding for accreditations and educational assistance for courses relevant to your role.Reward and recognition schemesStrong global management and team support and collaborationOpportunities to achieve personal and work goalsThe opportunity to work with a diverse network of team members and clientsExposure to skill development on a global level#J-18808-Ljbffr