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Job Summary Are you a highly motivated and skilled IT professional looking for a challenging and rewarding career? If so, the Senior Technician Service Desk position is the perfect opportunity for you. Provides 1st and 2nd level IT support to the organisation by applying a customer first culture, monitoring and resolving escalations and critical incidents, and identifying areas creating tension, which can impact the interpersonal dynamics between service desk technicians and customers. Coordinates and assists with the preparation of reports and measurements on the services provided by the service desk. Provide support and coaching to service desk technicians on customer service and technical insights and trains and coach all new employees on customer service, technical support, and policies and procedures. Provides 1st and 2nd level support to customers via the IT Service Help Desk. Installing and configuring computer hardware, software, systems, networks, printers, and scanners. Deliver, analyse, and improve on support statistics. Provide input into, assist with development of policies for approval by the Manager, and keep IT Support policies up to date. Responding in a timely manner to service issues and requests. Providing technical support across the organisation (this may be in person or over the phone). Administrate user identity: rest password, account expiry, group access, name change Repairing and replacing equipment, as necessary. Maintaining relationships with various hardware suppliers to obtain efficient levels of service and the best pricing possible. Address SLA areas of concern, evaluate service requests approaching or exceeding their SLAs, and provide recommendations to adjust staff priorities. Assist in obtaining pricing for hardware and software, either for internal use or for tenders and insurance. Assists in the delivery of IT Procurement from stakeholders. Demonstrate knowledge of approaches to the market, tendering, and quotations for the supply of goods, and services. Demonstrate a good understanding of the IDC procurement process context. Provide imputes that will improve the Service Desk customer experience, turnaround time, and empowerment of Service Desk Technicians. Coordinate preparation of all endpoint IT equipment insurance claims. Ensure equipment is submitted for repairs; negotiate pricing and tracking of repairs in accordance with SLA. Provide exceptional client service to all IDC recipients of mobile telephonic (cellular phones) hardware facilities Manage the contracts administration and renewals relating to these cellular phones Follow up on customer satisfaction issues and user r4=fdfeedback responses. Review any negative feedback or concerns clients have raised as a part of the post-ticket satisfaction survey. Responsible for ensuring positive client perceptions. Coach IT Service Desk staff on customer service skills as well as technical issues. Coordination of Service Desk Swift calls by allocating them to resolvers and ensuring that they are closed with the agreed SLA. Monitor to ensure Service Desk responsibilities to create specialization and increase service delivery pace. Review client complaints, rectify issues, and liaise with appropriate departments/SBUs to handle complex issues in a bid to provide effective solutions. Observe Service Desk operations to determine how effective they are and recommend new techniques when old ones are ineffective. Co-ordination of IT assets issued to employees for the performance of their duties. Submit knowledge documents for resolutions not already contained in the knowledge-base Implements standard procedures and proposes modifications to improve workflow Trains and coaches all new employees to establish a thorough understanding of procedures. Takes initiative to identify and propose remedies to problems to increase efficient workflow. Collates information, using well defined procedures, in order to provide periodic status reports in written and verbal formats Identifies potential risks and assists in developing resolution and preventative action Extensive experience in service desk, networking, and systems administration environment Experience in networking technologies (LAN, WLAN, WAN, VPN, TCP/IP, Switching, Routing, Proxy, etc.) Good written and verbal communication skills Lead technical discussions with stakeholders in a non-technical manner Proven experience in installing or upgrading software Proven ability to diagnose and resolve technical issues Ability to listen and understand client issues and to make quick and professional determinations Ability to work well with people and express empathy Technical Experience Requirements: Experience in Microsoft Windows Server 2016 / 2019. Proven experience as a service/help desk technician or other customer support role Experience in Linux/Unix Experience in database systems deployment and administration (Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and MS Access) Experience in Cibecs endpoint data protection; Information Security (i.e., Anti-Virus, Anti-Malware, firewalls.); Server and Network hardware configurations and deployments Exposure to Virtualisation technologies. (Hyper-V and VMware) Experience in Microsoft Active Directory, IIS, DNS, DHCP, SMB, SQL Server Experience in setting up, configuring, and maintaining an Avaya PBX BSc/BCOM in IT/Computer Science/ Information Technology or Computer Science/ IT Engineering A+, Network+/CCNA S+ / Information Security management would be advantageous xc3x82

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