ITSM Practice Analyst in Swansea

Are you knowledgeable in IT Service Management (ITSM) and looking to develop this further, being involved in a vast array of services that touch nearly all UK households? Do you like the sound of a multi-faceted role, working closely with product teams and business stakeholders to perform ITSM in a modern and progressive way, developing your skillset at pace?

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary.
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Our ITSM Practice Analyst roles work within a small, multi-skilled team that operates a wide range of ITSM practices/functions across a particular area (‘tower’) of DVLA’s services – namely Drivers, Vehicles or Core. This team manages the ITSM practice activities of all ITS (DVLA’s IT department) service and support functions relevant to the tower, defining and ensuring performance against OLAs for these activities, underpinning wider IT Service Management’s ability to deliver services in accordance with agreed SLAs and experience factors aligned to business and customer needs.

Required to possess a good level of industry best practice knowledge/experience in ITSM practices/functions, the ITSM Practice Analyst is responsible for performing many of the process tasks and activities which underpin the overall operation of the practices for the service tower. In doing so, they engage with a vast range of product-based DevOps engineering squads and Agile delivery teams, as well as other Service Management and Business stakeholders, making this role a fantastic opportunity to interact with colleagues across the entire IT eco-system.

Your responsibilities will include but will not be limited to:

• IT Service Management Framework and Practices: Applying your knowledge/experience of industry best practice, being responsible for performing underpinning process tasks and activities involved in the day-to-day operation of all the below ITSM practices and functions for the services within your team’s tower, in line with the documented processes, activities and success factors for each practice:

• Incident Management
• Problem Management
• Change Enablement
• Service Transition
• Service Configuration Management
• Service Continuity Management
• Capacity and Performance Management
• Monitoring and Event Management
• Continual Improvement Management of SSL/TLS Certificates

For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.