Spectrum IT Recruitment
3rd Line Support Engineer
Job Description
Salary: £47,000 - 52,000 per year
Requirements:- Strong experience supporting Microsoft and infrastructure environments
- Ability to troubleshoot problems that cross multiple systems or suppliers
- Experience working within an MSP, managed cloud services provider, or similarly multi-customer support environment
- Experience operating at 3rd line or senior technical support level is preferred
- Ability to take ownership of complex technical issues
- Ability to troubleshoot logically when the answer is not immediately obvious
- Ability to communicate technical information clearly to customers
- Ability to stay organised when dealing with competing priorities
- Ability to remain calm during outages and business-critical incidents
- Ability to recognise when to escalate and provide useful technical evidence
- Ability to share knowledge and help less experienced engineers develop
- Take ownership of technically challenging issues escalated from 1st and 2nd line, investigating them through to resolution or a clear escalation path
- Troubleshoot across Windows Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS and DHCP
- Troubleshoot across Microsoft 365, including Entra ID, Exchange Online, Teams and Conditional Access
- Troubleshoot across Hyper-V and VMware environments
- Troubleshoot across Citrix and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services
- Troubleshoot across networking, VPNs, firewalls, WAN connectivity and TCP/IP
- Troubleshoot across backup, recovery and business continuity
- Troubleshoot across cloud infrastructure and security
- Support planned maintenance, patching, configuration changes, infrastructure improvements, customer migrations and onboarding projects
- Keep tickets moving and communicate clearly with customers and colleagues
- Recognise when an issue needs escalating and make sure recurring problems are properly fixed
- Support 1st and 2nd line engineers through technical guidance, knowledge sharing and useful documentation
- Active Directory
- Citrix
- Cloud
- Hyper-V
- Support
- LESS
- Microsoft 365
- Security
- TCP/IP
- VMware
- Windows
- Office 365
- Ruby
More:
We are a senior technical support function based in Nutfield, offering an office-based role with a salary of £47,000-£52,000. We focus on complex escalations, infrastructure improvement and occasional project work across a varied range of customer environments. Our package includes 22 days annual leave rising to 25 days, a 5% performance-based bonus, a company phone and laptop, in-house and external training, opportunities for technical development and career progression, and frequent team social events. The role is office-based five days a week, with occasional paid overtime where operational incidents, maintenance or project activity requires it.
last updated 34 week of 2026
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