Monitoring & Backup Engineer in Northampton

The information below covers the role requirements, expected candidate experience, and accompanying qualifications.

Location: Northampton (hybrid)

Salary: up to £30K

As a Monitoring & Backup Engineer you will join an exciting, fast-paced area of our Managed Service, striving to deliver all-round service excellence to our customers with a proactive mindset. You will play a key role in areas such as the day-to-day operation and monitoring of monitoring & backup systems, supporting stability and early issue detection and delivering core processes/activities.

Job Role Responsibilities

• Assist the Managed Service Operation Centre maintaining and managing our current toolset alongside assisting the Monitoring and Backup team with day-to-day operational Requests and Incidents to ensure the smooth operation of our client’s infrastructure.
• Carry out daily monitoring and first-line checks for Monitoring and Backup for the Managed Service Operation Centre.
• Provide technical support and escalate to relevant teams where required for all customers and resellers.
• Act as an initial escalation point and follow documented escalation procedures for Bechtle products and services.
• Analyse events, perform initial troubleshooting and incident triage on the related systems communicating with relevant teams or third parties responsible for managing the systems for quick alert resolution.
• Work with the Service teams to ensure that monitoring and alerting is reported where optimisation may be required for existing customers as well as any new customers from the offset.
• Ensure customer incidents are progressed and escalated as quickly as possible (on and off-site).
• Work closely with customers and resellers to ensure that a high level of communication and engagement is maintained.
• Ensure that solutions are supported in line with appropriate standards and industry best practice.
• Provide occasional out of hours support and maintenance as required including evenings and weekends.
• Support senior engineers by assisting with implementation and incident resolution tasks.
• Assist with customer checks and reviews and create and maintain supporting service documentation.
• Follow the change control process and ensure records are updated accurately.
• Ensure incident information is recorded accurately and in a timely manner on our ITSM tool.
• Highlight potential service improvements or recurring issues whilst working with customers and resellers.
• Ensure daily monitoring and first-line resolution or escalation of issues relating to customer backups, DR solutions and IAAS platforms.

Required Experience & Technologies

• 1–2 years’ experience working in an IT support role with exposure to servers, networks, virtualised systems, backup, M365 & Azure.
• Exposure to enterprise / mainstream technologies and applications primarily focused on Microsoft 365, Azure, AVD, Windows Server, AD, VMware, Veeam, Acronis.
• Experience working with RMM and monitoring tools and supporting existing configurations.
• Entry-level or working towards industry recognised accreditations such as MS102, AZ104, VMware VCP, CCNA.

Job Requirements

• Excellent customer and stakeholder communication skills.
• Can work on own initiative.
• Good written skills on job reporting and documentation.
• Driven to provide proactive client experience.

What we offer

• Hybrid Working (3 days in / up to 2 days remote if required, after probation which is 3 months).
• Culture – Social events, Supportive, Fun, Hard working.
• Perks – Incentives (holidays, vouchers, lunches, spot prizes).
• Top of the range technology in office and for home working (laptops, screens, latest iPhone, etc).
• Subsidised health care/medical benefits.
• Annual Leave – 25-30* days plus B.H’s + optional 2 weeks unpaid. *Increases with time spent.
• Progression Plan – training & mentor programme.