Xact Placements Ltd
3rd Line Support Engineer
Job Description
Salary: £40,000 - 45,000 per year
Requirements:- 5+ years hands-on experience in IT support
- Previous experience working within an MSP is highly advantageous
- Solid troubleshooting experience across enterprise firewall management
- Solid troubleshooting experience across network infrastructure, including switches and wireless access points
- Solid troubleshooting experience across business email platforms
- Solid troubleshooting experience across cloud-based email filtering
- Solid troubleshooting experience across identity management platforms
- Solid troubleshooting experience across security monitoring, including SIEM and MDR
- Solid troubleshooting experience across enterprise password management
- Solid troubleshooting experience across hosted VoIP telephony
- Solid troubleshooting experience across backup and disaster recovery management
- Solid troubleshooting experience across PSA and RMM tooling
- Experience with PowerShell and automation
- Microsoft or Azure certifications
- Confident supporting Mac and Linux alongside Windows
- Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle are essential
- Support and maintain systems
- Act as the escalation point for 1st and 2nd line colleagues
- Own complex and priority tickets end to end
- Identify and resolve root causes rather than only patching symptoms
- Maintain high first-time fix rates
- Carry out ongoing infrastructure maintenance and patching
- Deliver changes such as migrations, upgrades, and new implementations
- Coordinate with client and internal stakeholders to ensure smooth change delivery with minimal downtime
- Visit client sites as needed
- Communicate with clients effectively by phone and email
- Log and update tickets accurately within SLAs
- Maintain documentation effectively
- Azure
- Cloud
- Firewall
- Support
- Linux
- Network
- PowerShell
- Security
- Windows
More:
We are a well-established Managed Service Provider based in Oxford, and we are looking for an experienced 3rd Line Support Engineer to join our team. This is a client-facing role where we support client infrastructure, resolve technical issues, and contribute to structured changes within a fast-paced MSP environment. The salary for this role is £35,000 to £45,000 per annum.
last updated 31 week of 2026
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Xact Placements Ltd
Oxford
IT
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£42,500
This role
£60,000
UK median
This salary is 29% below the UK median for Software Engineers (£60,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks