Senior IT Consultant - Reading
- Recruiter
- BCT Resourcing
- Location
- Aldermaston, Reading, Berkshire
- Salary
- £30,000 - £40,000 per annum
- Posted
- 27 Mar 2017
- Closes
- 24 Apr 2017
- Ref
- 1395383
- Sectors
- IT, IT Support, Networks & Systems
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Our client, part of a very successful and well established Business Services Group, is an exciting, growing IT Support company based near Reading with a loyal client base of a mix of SMEs and educational establishments, ranging from home workers through to Royal Palaces. They have an opportunity for an experienced IT Support Engineer to join them.
The role will require you to work both at their offices on the helpdesk but also on-site at clients as required. It is therefore imperative that you are smart, polite and have impeccably strong customer facing and communication skills, along with a valid and preferably clean driving licence.
You will be expected to help manage the existing Internal Technical Team dealing with direct calls and enquires from clients as well as escalated and delegated requests from within the team. You will also be required from time to time to support the Technical Director on more complex projects that in turn may allow you to take over day to day project management.
You will have the opportunity to develop your skills very quickly and play a key role in all aspects of the business. You will also need a bright, cheerful personality, a sense of humour is critical and you will be keen to work hard.
Their Ideal Candidate Will Have:
- 5-6 years experience within a varied IT support role, with a desire to work on a mix of 1st, 2nd and 3rd line support issues
- Experience of supporting a range of hardware and software
- Experience of (or a desire to) work on site in front of clients
- Experience with Active Directory, networking, routers, firewalls, VPNs
- Knowledge of virtualisation technologies
- Network experience of TCP/IP networks, wireless, DNS, DHCP etc
Knowledge in the following areas would be preferable;
Anti-virus, back-ups, Exchange, Wi-Fi, hosted email, printers and print management, wireless technologies, other peripherals, setting up new users, server support including virtualisation (Hyper-V, VMware) etc.
To be considered for this role, please apply today.
The role will require you to work both at their offices on the helpdesk but also on-site at clients as required. It is therefore imperative that you are smart, polite and have impeccably strong customer facing and communication skills, along with a valid and preferably clean driving licence.
You will be expected to help manage the existing Internal Technical Team dealing with direct calls and enquires from clients as well as escalated and delegated requests from within the team. You will also be required from time to time to support the Technical Director on more complex projects that in turn may allow you to take over day to day project management.
You will have the opportunity to develop your skills very quickly and play a key role in all aspects of the business. You will also need a bright, cheerful personality, a sense of humour is critical and you will be keen to work hard.
Their Ideal Candidate Will Have:
- 5-6 years experience within a varied IT support role, with a desire to work on a mix of 1st, 2nd and 3rd line support issues
- Experience of supporting a range of hardware and software
- Experience of (or a desire to) work on site in front of clients
- Experience with Active Directory, networking, routers, firewalls, VPNs
- Knowledge of virtualisation technologies
- Network experience of TCP/IP networks, wireless, DNS, DHCP etc
Knowledge in the following areas would be preferable;
Anti-virus, back-ups, Exchange, Wi-Fi, hosted email, printers and print management, wireless technologies, other peripherals, setting up new users, server support including virtualisation (Hyper-V, VMware) etc.
To be considered for this role, please apply today.