Customer Support Engineer (L1)

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At Merchants our vision is to create meaningful and sustainable futures for our people, by driving a culture of continuous learning through the many skills and development programmes we offer, which are designed to develop talent and fulfil potential.

If you were born to deliver exceptional service, apply to join our professional team and be ready to kick start your career. We’re always looking for expectational talent and are known around the world for our outstanding customer experience using the latest technology, best practice models and processes, and innovative ground-breaking training techniques.

We place our people at the centre of everything we do and believe that the way you treat your customers and people differentiates us.

Are you ready to take the next step in your career?

The Customer Support Engineer is responsible for providing 1st line support for all incidents logged and to meet SLA’s to ensure that the appropriate action is taken within the scope of work of the role.

1. Query Resolution

• Develops and maintains a professional working relationship with the client on behalf of Merchants.
• Resolves all calls logged, relating to telephony, conferencing and desktop issues ensures work is completed within SLA.
• Resolve level 1 system and network issues within SLA
• Escalate level 2 system and network issues to relevant parties
• Escalates calls to the relative parties.
• Confirms Call resolution with client before resolving of the call on the IT Service Management System.
• Retrieves calls emanating from the Business unit on NICE platform or other voice loggers where applicable.
• Investigates and reports on incidents relating to server, desktop and telephony queries and systems.

•  Liaises with 3rd party vendors and 2^nd line support to resolve escalationsproblems and queries.

2. Standard Adherence

• Updates all calls timeously with a complete audit trail of actions and events, follows up on escalated calls to ensure completion and feedback.

• Comply to Merchants accepted ITIL based Industry best practices.

3. Administration

• Complete daily morning checks on all managed information technology platforms and systems  working towards consistent availability
• Maintains service and quality levels according to Merchants’ business standards, processes and procedures.
• Documents Standard Operating procedures and Work Instruction processes relating to Merchants and client specific systems.
• Manages the client’s expectations with regards to break-fix calls and service requests.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years related work experience
• Technical Troubleshooting
• MCITP: Enterprise Desktop Administrator and or Support Technician on Windows 7 : preferred.
• Any experience in Avaya, and NICE would be an advantage. (This is advantageous as training will be provided).
• Basic Apple Mac knowledge an advantage
• A+ and N+ an advantage
• MCSE & CCNA an advantage

Additional requirement
Able and willing to work in a night shift environment