Job Description

Aim of the role

Working as part of a support team and with a passion for providing and promoting outstanding customer service at all times, the Support Specialist will act as the first escalation point for wider support teams. The role involves anything from providing general advice to colleagues through to delivering in-depth technical assistance to customers.

Key responsibilities and tasks

Duties will include, but are not restricted to, the following:

• Providing day-to-day support to the end-user base.
• Managing customer queries and providing advice, ranging from general queries to more specific technical questions.
• Troubleshooting support issues using knowledge bases and other resources.
• Ensuring resolution of any open tickets is managed in a timely and efficient manner.
• Information gathering, qualification and prioritisation of new service requests.
• Providing advanced technical support for backup and recovery systems, including hardware, software, and network-related issues.
• Accurately logging relevant information onto the IT service management (ITSM) system, including actions taken and next steps.
• Proactive allocation and checking of customer backups, ensuring tickets are raised for issues as needed.
• Managing and ensuring timely and appropriate updates are communicated back to customers.
• Administration of customer account information, ensuring details are kept current and accurate in the ITSM system.
• Administration of the customer support portal, e.g., setting up new accounts, password requests, etc.
• Escalation of incidents to the next tier of support when necessary.

Key skills and competencies

The ideal candidate will be bright, enthusiastic, and dedicated to achieving great results. They should ideally have a mix of the following job-specific skills, attributes, and experience:

• Advanced-level ability to understand and diagnose technical problems.
• Attention to detail to prevent ticket breaches against SLAs, and persistence to ensure adherence to processes.
• A willingness to learn and engage with unfamiliar technologies.
• Excellent time management and organisational skills, with the ability to work well under pressure.
• Strong technical expertise in server, network, and disk storage systems.
• Experience with enterprise backup and recovery systems (e.g., Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault, or Veeam) is a major advantage.
• Experience with virtualisation technologies such as VMware, Nutanix, or Hyper-V (desirable).
• Experience with cloud technologies (desirable).
• Knowledge of storage area networks (SANs) and network-attached storage (NAS).
• Excellent communication skills and ability to interact with end-users at all levels.
• Experience with ticketing systems and SLAs.

Qualifications

• ITILv3/v4 certification and/or prior experience within an IT service environment.

Possible progression path

• Escalation Support Engineer
• Service Desk Team Leader
• Service Improvement Analyst

Hours of work

Working on a rota basis, the shift patterns are:

• Monday – Friday, 8am–4pm (week 1)
• Monday – Friday, 2pm–10pm (week 2)