Desktop Support Technician

Company: aap3 Recruitment
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Location: London
Job Description:

Our client is a premier global independent investment banking advisory firm. Headquartered in New York and maintains offices and affiliate offices in major financial centers in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Job Summary

We are seeking to appoint an onsite Desktop Support Engineer to join their team. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing technical desktop support throughout London and EMEA offices, ensuring a seamless IT experience delivering the highest level of customer service. They are specifically looking for an engineer who has supported C suite clients in an agile ITIL environment. They require a self-starter who will demonstrate proactive IT management.

Main Responsibilities

  1. IT Hardware Incident and task fulfilment for internal End User (predominantly Lenovo/Apple)
  2. Perform advanced troubleshooting to diagnose and resolve problems (repair or replace parts, etc.) with goal to get users back on the job including deploying temporary equipment as needed.
  3. Printer Support and configuration experience
  4. Procurement and configuration of EUC hardware
  5. Hardware Asset management lifecycle and refresh (CMDB)
  6. Video Conference Support
  7. Work closely with internal support groups and external service providers to identify, resolve, or coordinate the resolution for EMEAPAC
  8. High level knowledge and support experience of hardware, software, security, networks, internet, storage, with some understanding of Service Desk
  9. Experience of Problem management process and procedures
  10. Experience of Change management process and procedures
  11. Contribution to improvements and enhancements of processes/procedures
  12. Extensive Service Now ITSM experience such as Incidents, Requests & CMDB management
  13. Provide orientation and guidance to users on how to operate software and computer equipment
  14. Proactively identify any gaps in procedures or documentation and work with the colleague and managers to create or update accordingly
  15. Collaborate with Front of House team to track, schedule and coordinate room set
  16. Suggest innovative ideas and/or processes to improve operational quality.

Education and Experience

  • Proven work experience as Desktop Support Engineer or Support Technician in a corporate environment
  • Support of key technologies including MS Teams, Zoom, Intune, Citrix, VoIP, Microsoft Exchange Online, LANDesk
  • Experience creating and governing process and procedures

Job Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

  • Demonstrates ownership through lifecycle of issues or problems
  • Reporting with (ServiceNow/excel/powerBI)
  • Energetic and motivated
  • Have exceptional organizational skills and self-motivated.
  • Have highly effective oral and written communication skills

Essential Technical skills

  • Experience of utilising software to track incidents, requests, and problems (preferably ServiceNow)
  • Intermediate account and group management in Active Directory, and MS Exchange
  • Experience/good understanding of mobile device management (MS Intune preferred)
  • Troubleshooting mobile devices (iOS and Android)
  • Experience and good understanding of systems management tool (LANDESK preferred)
  • Reinstalling Operating Systems with imaging software
  • Good understanding of two-factor authentication
  • Voice system administration: support, provisioning, and troubleshooting (Avaya preferred)
  • Using Antivirus and malware software to clean PCs
  • Video Conferencing setup and troubleshooting (Teams, Zoom, & AV hardware)
  • Experience installing and troubleshooting conference phones (Analogue & IP)
  • Experience with end user remote access (Citrix preferred)
  • Good understanding of networking concepts
  • Use of Excel to generate and manipulate data with experience of pivot tables and formulas

Desirable but not essential

  • Financial industry experience/similar
  • Security certifications
  • Understanding of Group policy design, management, and implementation

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Contract

Job function

Information Technology

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Posted: April 12th, 2025