Senior Support Engineer; 3rd Line

The role of Senior Support Engineer is a key player in our Managed Services team. This role helps support customers environments, fixing escalated issues as well as playing a leading role in developing custom environments and delivering project works.

• Support, maintenance and troubleshooting of network fabrics including on premises (VMware/Hyper-V) and cloud hosted solutions (Azure, VMware cloud)
• Experience supporting and deploying Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Entra , Intune and associated technologies
• Support of multiple managed services customers in both Public and Private sectors
• Support, Maintenance and Troubleshooting of Microsoft software including Windows Server, Active Directory, SQL Server and Exchange
• Support of backup, HA and DR solutions e.g. Azure Site Recovery, VEEAM, Rubrik and other recovery solutions
• Solid experience of delivering and assessing network and security solutions for customer Firewalls and other devices (Cisco, Fortinet, General switches and Wireless solutions)
• Support, advise, define and implement secure configurations across a wide range of platforms
• Creation of operational support documentation such as ‘Statement of Work’, ‘Health Check’, Knowledgebase and similar customer and internal facing documents
• Take the technical lead for a subset of customers with an eye to be the SME for their service, joining service reviews and a proactive approach to improving customers environments
• Be the technical resource on managed services customer projects
• Participate on-call rota as required
• Act as a mentor to the 1st and 2nd line teams to assist with growing and evolving the team
• Undertake any other ad hoc duties as required, which are deemed necessary to assist with the needs of the company
• Adhere to the Incident, Major Incident, Problem, Knowledge, and Change Management Processes within best practice framework –v4
• Provide exceptional customer experience through written and verbal communication

• Support customer’s needs by dealing with reported incidents from ticketing systems and telephone within the contracted SLA
• Proactively work on Incidents, Major Incident, Problems, Requests and Changes
• Raise and progress RFCs within the Change Management process
• Maintain the highest levels of communications with both external and internal customers
• Troubleshoot, diagnose, and administer both user, networking and infrastructure environments, including systems software, hardware, and configurations for both on-premises and cloud-based customers
• Produces technical documentation including standard operating procedures, technical operation manuals, architectural network diagrams.
• Engineering of new network solutions using physical and virtual hardware on-premises and public cloud
• Work proactively and reactively within our Monitoring Platform to manage network performance, identify where action is required to be taken
• Diagnoses network issues, and delivers root cause analysis reports for major incidents
• Assisting Service Desk with end user troubleshooting or escalated tickets
• Account creation of privilege accounts ensuring security standards are adhered to
• Ensure systems are securely maintained, remediating vulnerabilities as per contractual and process adherence
• Follow the Knowledge Management Process; write, review and update Knowledge

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• Deliver proactive and reactive maintenance of customer and boxxe systems to ensure the highest possible patching and security status is continuously maintained.
• Work collaboratively within the 2nd line team, sharing knowledge and experience
• Liaise with 3rd parties and boxxe technical personnel toward problem resolution
• Work to find new and innovative solutions, making recommendations to…