3rd line Engineer

About Ekco

🚀 Founded in 2016 Ekco is now one of the fastest growing cloud solution providers in Europe!
We specialise in enabling companies to progress along the path of cloud maturity, managing transformation and driving better outcomes from our clients’ existing technology investments.

☁️ In a few words, we take businesses to the cloud and back!

🌍 We have over 1000 highly talented and supportive colleagues (and counting) across a number of regional offices in the UK, Benelux, South Africa, Malaysia & Ireland.

About the Role
As a 3rd Line Engineer on the 24x7 Service Desk, you will be the subject matter expert of our Service Desk team. Working from our Cape Town office and reporting to the 24x7 Manager, you will be responsible for designing, implementing and supporting advanced solutions across our support technologies. This role acts as the final escalation point for complex issues, drives automation and governance, and contributes to strategic initiatives that enhance our support services and customer experience.
This is a shift-based position, with a 4-days on, 4-days off pattern and a requirement to work either days or nights, including bank/public holidays.

Key Responsibilities

• Receive incoming calls from our customers, raising tickets, providing support and guidance over the phone and via our ITSM tool (Fresh Service).

• Act as the point of contact and final point of escalation for incidents and requests related to our services, supporting the full lifecycle of the tickets through to resolution.

• Raise, implement, review and technically approve change requests utilising the Change
Management process, attending CAB when necessary.

• Lead root cause analysis and Problem Management activities working closely with the
Problem Manager.

• Review customer solutions to identify potential improvements and cost efficiencies.

• Communicate clearly and professionally with customers, ensuring they are informed of
progress and resolution, ensuring a high customer satisfaction.

• Managing and monitoring the team and your personal ticket queues, ensuring tickets are updated, progressed and resolved in a timely manner.

• Work hand in hand with other teams to facilitate smooth escalations and maintain
momentum in resolution efforts.

• Drive the creation and use of knowledge base articles by documenting and sharing
common workarounds and more complex fixes.

• Provide technical mentoring and guidance to the teams.

Essential Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience in remotely supporting our technologies, including;

• Microsoft 365 administration and licensing

• Microsoft AVD & Remote Desktop

• Microsoft Active Directory & Entra

• Microsoft Exchange & Exchange Online

• Microsoft Intune & Group Policy

• Microsoft SharePoint and One Drive

• Microsoft Teams

• End-user Devices and Desktops

• On-Premise Networking

• VMware

• Customer centric with great people skills

• Proactive and positive approach to problem solving and client interaction

• Experience with Power Shell

• Experience with ITSM and remote support tools

• MD-102 or MS-700 or SC-300 or similar certification

Desirable

• Experience of virtualised Microsoft environments

• ITIL Foundations certification

• MS-102 certification
Personal Qualities:

• Resilient to change

• Takes pride in providing a high level of service

• Strong attention to detail

• Ability to work under pressure and handle difficult situations

• Impeccable time management skills with the ability to prioritise effectively