Junior Breakfix Engineer

Location:
North west
Employment Type:
Permanent Employee

Role Summary

The role is responsible for the support of network services across numerous locations in the North West area, including maintenance and configuration of network equipment for the customer.

You will form part of a team of on-site engineers, who provide technical support and act as escalation points for one of our customers in the North West. As the first level of technical escalation, you will interface directly with our customer’s technical teams to provide troubleshooting of more complex incidents. You will work closely with both the on-site Roc and customer teams, while also supporting the operations centre which is 24/7.

The role is to support the entire IT Network that is under support by Roc. This will include but is not limited to, system administration, maintenance of platforms, break-fix of IT network equipment, remote and physical fault diagnoses, small changes and supporting others. In-house training will be provided and vendor training where appropriate to support the role. You will be working with the following vendor equipment; Aruba, Arista, Cisco & Infoblox (software and hardware), this ranges from Switches, APs, authentication systems, DHCP, DNS services and core networking.

Key Responsibilities

  • On-site attendance and troubleshooting of any of the above vendor systems or platforms, that the operations centre are unable to resolve remotely

  • Contributing to all of the above new documents to assist in sharing and formalising processes

  • Supporting and enhancing the knowledge base for end-users and support teams

    Maintaining network availability for customers by performing routine maintenance, failover testing, and participating in the implementation of best practices, etc

  • Maintaining Roc and customer ITSM systems with high quality work notes detailing progress, actions, and plans

  • Contact third parties/vendors/suppliers to log and progress support calls, request, and progress technical advice from our customers

  • Escalating calls to senior engineers or management, as appropriate

  • To take ownership of Customer requests and be proactive when dealing with Customer issues

  • To ensure all requests meet or exceed the contractual Service Level Agreements

  • Carry out housekeeping tasks

  • Actively seek to improve and grow own skill and knowledge in appropriate areas

Knowledge & Skills

Essential
  • Strong IT knowledge essential (e.g. Outlook, Excel, Word)

  • Communication and presentation skills, including customer/external stakeholder communication

  • Demonstrate ownership of issues and service excellence

  • Takes direction from senior engineers to assist in on-site troubleshooting of incidents

Desirable
  • Working knowledge of Aruba WLAN products and Aruba LAN products

  • Confidence to make changes to a live customer environment

Key Attributes

Essential
  • Ability to work within a cross-functional team

  • Able to communicate technical solutions to non-technical stakeholders when necessary

  • Quick learner with the ability to absorb information and put recently learned technical skills into action

  • Clear professionalism displayed as the role is on a customer facing site

  • Flexibility as role is customer site based 5 days a week, and requires an on-call rota

Desirable
  • Pro-actively seek learning opportunities for themselves within the networking practice

  • Ability to take control of incidents alongside external stakeholders and communicate across a variety of teams to resolve incidents

Experience & Attainments

Essential
  • Evidence of working in a team

  • Customer facing experience as part of an IT support role

  • Able to work in a fast-paced environment

Desirable
  • ACA

  • ACSA

  • Infoblox certifications

Additional Requirements

The flexibility to work on a customer site 5 days a week and join the on-call rota to provide 24x7 cover in the event of a high priority incident