Group Service Desk Engineer

Peninsula is the leading Ireland and UK Employment Law and Health & Safety Specialists, providing an integral service to our 32,000 Client’s daily business operations. An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the growing ICT Department and become a memberof the Service Desk team working in a dynamic and fast paced environment with new challenges every day, based in our Dublin office with occasional travel to our offices in Cork and Belfast.

You will be working in a team-based environment on the Service Desk, providing second line support to users in all our offices. Your main responsibilities will be providing first time fixes where possible, commissioning and building user equipment and triagingand escalating tickets when required. A broad technical knowledge is required, alongside ITIL experience in Incident, Request, Change, Problem, Release, Event and Knowledge management. You will be forward thinking, customer focussed and self-motivated withthe drive to improve all IT services and the user experience.
- Must aspire to a culture of service excellence, always putting the customer, our people and our business at the centre of everything you do.
- Demonstrate strong organisational skills and be accountable for your daily workload.
- Demonstrate a systematic, disciplined and analytical approach.
- Be customer focussed and ardent in ensuring that colleagues receive a high quality of service.

The key objectives as a Group Service Desk Engineer:

- To ensure that the Service Desk Manager and Associate Director - IT Services UKI are kept informed of progress and in particular are told of major problems and/or issues in a timely manner.
- Responsibility for being the first point of contact on the Service Desk.
- New Starters and Leavers administration.
- Updating the knowledge base.
- Innovation and Continual Service Improvements.
- Responsibility for supporting and maintaining the company’s IT systems and for providing efficient desktop support to all business users.
- The department is responsible for resolving any IT related faults quickly and efficiently.
- To work within SLA and KPI targets to agreed business priorities.
- Setting up and configuring new laptops, desktops and mobile devices.
- Installing authorised software to laptops, desktops and mobile devices.
- Reporting faults and maintaining logs on desktops and laptops.

The Successful Group Service Desk Engineer must have:

- Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- ITIL experience.
- Experience in 1st and 2nd line support.
- Experience with supporting customers over the phone and in person.
- Experience of ticket management.
- Windows Server 2008 / 2012 / 2016.
- Windows 7 / 10.
- MS Exchange 2010 / 2013 mailbox management.
- Active Directory and group policies.
- Setting up new users and disabling expired accounts.
- Patching of network and phones.
- Undertaking small
- to medium-sized IT moves and projects.
- Be passionate about technology.

Desirable Skills for a Group Service Desk Engineer:

- Office365
- Mac OS
- Mimecast
- AirWatch
- RingCentral Cloud Telephony

What you bring to the Team:

- Driven and results orientated.
- Positive outlook and a focus on high quality delivery.
- Strong communicator.
- Must have the ability to communicate complex concepts and ideas easily to the team
- Must be motivated to ensure work is complete and according to the requirements on schedule and to a high quality.
- Must be reliable.
- Is able to work under pressure in all situations.
- A dedication to getting the task done within any deadlines.

What’s on offer?
- Generous basic salary up to €36k DOE.
- The role is a permanent position with a 6 month probationary period. The working week is based on 37.5 hours.
- 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays.
- Profit Share Scheme.
- Breakfast provided each Monday morning.
- Contributory company pension scheme.
- Access to the Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).