AVI Limited Current Available Job Opportunity- Apply Now!

AVI LIMITED is home to many of South Africa’s leading and best-loved brands. Listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in the Food Products sector, AVI’s extensive brand portfolio includes more than 50 brands. Our single-minded purpose is our brands growth and development. Our brands span a range of categories including: hot beverages, sweet and savoury biscuits and snacks, frozen convenience foods, out-of-home ranges, personal care products, cosmetics, shoes, accessories, and fashion apparel. AVI’s brands have grown into great South African favorites including: Five Roses, Freshpak, House of Coffees, Frisco, Koffiehuis and Ellis Brown in the Beverages category; Bakers, Pyotts, Willards and Provita in the Biscuits and Snacks category; I&J in the Frozen Foods category; as well as Ciro, Lavazza and Douwe Egberts Cafitesse for the Out Of Home market.

 

 

 

Job Title: Service Desk Agent
Location: Cape Town
Salary: Market Related
Job Type: Permanent
Sectors: FMCG, IT
Reference: 73432

 

Reporting Structure: Service Agent Team Lead

Job specification:

Key performance areas:

• Responsibilities include the ability to identify research and resolve a broad range of problems associated with users as well as the broader IT Systems infrastructure.
• Provide operational support to business users including after-hours support by assisting in problem resolution
• Monitors the Systems and Infrastructure environments through the use of monitoring tools and pre-defined monitoring processes and reacts quickly to resolve complex problems
• Performs SAP transports in accordance with pre-defined processes
• Reviews user issues logged via email and ensures that these are appropriately logged and assigned to the correct resolver group
• Responds to user requests for information and assists in problem resolution outside of normal business hours
• Re-assigns calls that cannot be resolved immediately to the relevant resolving team or 3rd party as defined in the operational procedures
• Adheres to issues escalation procedures
• Ensures effective communication of the downtime schedule to key business and IT stakeholders
• Logs, documents and maintains history records of logged calls on the IT Knowledge Base
• Troubleshooting, diagnosis and resolution of problems related to the group’s infrastructure components such as server hardware, storage systems.
• Provide front-line support with a focus on incident resolution. They are to provide high quality technical and procedural assistance.
• Systems support across multiple platforms including (but not limited to): VMWare, MS Exchange, Windows Servers, Printing, CCTV, Faxing, SCCM and Backups.
• Responding to telephone calls, calls directly assigned via the incident management system, emails and in-person requests for technical support.
• Conduct first-line telephone support on all incoming calls to the Service Desk

 

Minimum Requirements:

Experience:                                                                   

• At least 2 years relevant experience in a Service Desk or IT Support environment
• 1 Year 1^st Line IT Service Desk Support experience is a minimum requirement
• Proven experience in monitoring, supporting and performing initial troubleshooting with a view to resolve incidents in:

• Enterprise desktop operating systems (Win7,8,10) and Office Productivity Applications (MS Office suite)
• Large scale Microsoft Windows Server environments
• Microsoft systems e.g. MS Exchange, MS SharePoint Data center computer systems, storage systems, virtualization, software management systems (SCCM) and backup systems

 

Qualifications:

• Matric/Grade 12
• Diploma in Information Technology
• Advanced Diploma or Equivalent in Information Technology would be advantageous 

 

Minimum Certificate(S):

MCSA (Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate)

• Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016 (Storage and Disk, Data dedupe, HA, DR, Clustering)
• Networking with Windows Server 2016 (DNS, DHCP, IPAM, VPN, DFS, SDN)
• Identity with Windows Server 2016 (AD DS, AD CS, AD FS) 

 

Advantageous Certificate(s):

• Valid CCNA Certification
• A+/N+
• Enterprise Server Hardware (e.g. HP, Dell)
• ITIL Service Management Foundation advantageous

 

Other Requirements:

• Prepared to work outside of normal working hours including overtime, weekends and/or public holidays
• The position requires rotational shift work
• A keen ability to work collaboratively within a team and across multiple pillars in ITSS
• Good working knowledge and experience in the use of enterprise monitoring systems (Solarwinds, SCOM)
• Good understanding of networking principles – TCP, UDP, etc. 

 

Competencies:

• Flexible and open to change
• Build and use key relationships
• Problem-solving ability
• Planning and organizing
• Initiate and Achieve Results

 

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Application Deadline: November 16 2023