IT 1st Line Support Engineer

Contract: Permanent, full-time
Location: London (hybrid-working)
Closing Date: 1 December 2025

Trinity College London is a complex and fast-growing international organisation with a compelling vision.

We realise that the life-enhancing, and often life-changing, impact of authentic communicative and performance skills can help empower everything we do, including our work.

This is why people choose to work for Trinity and we hope that it will encourage you to join us in a dynamic, innovative and truly global organisation.

At Trinity we care about your potential, and we are proud to help support you in discovering opportunities that are unique and allow you to perform at your very best.

About the role

As IT 1st Line Support Engineer, you will be responsible for providing support to Trinity users and Infrastructure across multiple sites including home workers. Will will help enable the company to achieve its goals with the primary objective being to provide technical support to Trinity staff and consultants, maintain system directories, improve the performance and reliability of the end user computing equipment and other IT managed equipment. You will engage in reactive support for break fix incidents escalated from the service desk and completing service requests. The post holder will also be expected to participate in projects which underpin the Trinity range of customer products and operating processes.

About you

This role will be suitable for someone who has a professional IT qualification such as MCSA and CCNA, or equivalent, with at least 3 years working experience in an IT role. The position is for a mid-sized organisation and you will need to possess the ability to provide support across a broad range of systems.

We are looking for someone that can provide a high level of attention to detail, be a team player, with demonstrable ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and understand the commitment to the highest standards of customer service and care. Being proactive and able to operate without direct supervision is key in this role. It is important for you to have high quality verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences as well as the ability to coordinate multiple tasks and prioritise workload and be able to deal with high pressure scenarios.

Our benefits

Trinity provides a work environment that is stimulating, inspiring and fair. Our approach to reward values our employees while ensuring each person s contribution makes us great as an organisation. As an employee, you ll enjoy a range of benefits here at Trinity.

Our commitment

Trinity is open to all applicants from different backgrounds and we are committed to building a more diverse and inclusive workplace. All applications are dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

We actively encourages applications from candidates of all abilities. As a Disability Confident employer, we are dedicated to creating a workplace that is accessible, supportive, and welcoming for individuals with different abilities. We will make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neuro-diverse.

Trinity promotes and welcome applications from a wide range of candidates, including those with criminal records. In line with the requirements of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974), we select all candidates for interview based on their competencies, qualifications and knowledge.

To learn more about our DEI commitment as an equal opportunities employer, please visit our Equality, diversity and inclusion page.

How to Apply

To apply, please follow the Apply for This Job link on this page and you will be directed to the Trinity College London application page. We reserve the right to close the advert earlier if we receive a high volume of interest so please do not delay if interested.

Trinity College London does not hold a job visa sponsorship licence and so is not in a position to sponsor visas in the UK.

All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. Upon successful appointment into the role, you will be required to complete our vetting procedures as with all Trinity College London employees. This is carried out by a 3rd party supplier and our standard background checks consist of Right to Work in the UK, Identity Check, Employment History check, Financial Probity Check, Highest Academic Qualifications Check and a basic DBS check.

Trinity College London will collect and use your personal information for our recruitment process in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice . Trinity College London will hold candidate data on file for no more than six months from application submission. If you want your information to be removed earlier, please contact us directly. If we want to hold your information beyond the six months, we will contact you to get your consent.

Our data protection policy can be viewed in full here .