Hi. We’re OFX, a global provider of online, international payment services. We solve the complexity of moving money and enable better decisions. Headquartered in Sydney with offices worldwide, we’re a customer-focused business that is all about inspiring customer confidence.

At OFX, you’ll have the opportunity to reach beyond your role and function across disciplines. Make use of your diverse skill set at a business that values your expertise and turn your potential into reality.

Purpose of your role 

As a Senior Support Engineer you will be accountable for all escalations within the Support team. You will act as a technical expert for platforms and systems which fall under the SupportOps remit, ensuring requests are dealt with efficiently and with a high level of service. You will be the second point of contact for any technology incidents and be accountable for system support and remediation. You will also help to draft knowledge base articles and contribute to the upskilling of the wider team.

Working as part of a global Service Desk team to ensure smooth operations of our systems globally, this role will be heavily involved in the Incident, Problem and Fault management process for when things aren’t operating smoothly. Success in this role will rely on strong troubleshooting and investigation skills, a deep understanding of level 1, level 2 and Desktop support, experience with ITIL frameworks (certification preferable) and a commitment to best practice.

What you do

• Play a key role in a global Service Desk team, taking ownership for the Service Desk during the allocated time in the 24-hour schedule.
• Take ownership of major incidents and issues, seeing them through from start to finish.
• Provide technical support to the global Support team, and action all escalated issues and major incidents.
• Perform troubleshooting and investigations for more difficult issues as an escalation point and working with other teams or externally with vendors where appropriate.
• Participate in Fault/Event Management, Incident Management, Problem Resolution and Root Cause Analysis of IT Systems.
• Maintain Core Business Systems in a proactive manner, ensuring systems are available, reliable and secure, though proactive monitoring and tasks.
• Work with the IT Operations Team to perform regular maintenance and patching of systems and devices.
• Participate when required in the planning, execution and delivery of key technology initiatives.
• Lead by example by using consistent, open and transparent .communication across teams
• Acts as a positive advocate for the team.

Our Why

Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.

About the Role (your why)

Due to continued growth within our team, we have multiple roles across Australia. Working as a Desktop Support Engineer you will be responsible for the provision of all aspects of Desktop Services to a key Datacom customer. Aligned to our customers business requirements, we provide tailored maintenance services, hardware and software break/fix support, remote support, software deployment and relocation services.

The location of this role will be based on-site in Grafton. To be eligible for this role you must be an Australian Citizen and able to obtain an AGSVA Baseline clearance. 

What you’ll do

At the moment, as Desktop Support Engineer you will be focused on:

• Providing excellent technical support in a high-paced environment where customer satisfaction is paramount
• Assisting new users with their IT hardware collection and setup.
• Ensuring new equipment, such as Laptops and Mobile phones, are up to date and deployment ready prior to release to customers
• Recording all customer contacts in the appropriate ITSM tool
• Keeping customers updated with regards to their tickets
• Using tools and processes to deliver services to customers in accordance with SLAs
• Proactively manage and maintain customer infrastructure as directed
• Initiate and drive service and process improvement
• Follow best practice methodologies and adhere to recognised ITIL processes (EG: Change/release)

We are a pretty agile company, and are keen to respond to customer, technology and internal stakeholders’ changing requirements and this can mean we evolve in our roles to meet those needs.

What you’ll bring

To be successful in this role, you will have demonstrated the following:

• Exceptional customer experience with regard to end user services
• The ability to prioritise work to ensure achievement of all service level agreements
• Sound knowledge of Laptops, Desktop PC's, printers, media and audio-visual equipment and mobility devices
• You will bring excellent verbal and written communication and have the ability to articulate technical information to the target audience. Your professional customer service will be second to none, and you will have the ability to work autonomously with excellent time management.

Why join us here at Datacom?

Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. We have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.

We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few. You’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect and bring your true self to work. You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment.

We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.

We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken and continue to take to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported.