Equation Recruitment
Senior IT Engineer
Job Description
Salary: £38,000 - 42,000 per year
Requirements:- 3–5+ years of hands-on experience in a similar MSP, IT support, or infrastructure environment
- Strong knowledge of networking fundamentals, including routing, switching, firewalls, and VPNs
- Demonstrable experience administering Microsoft 365 and Azure
- Experience working across multiple client environments and Microsoft 365 tenants
- Proven track record of independent problem-solving
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Excellent communication skills and confidence dealing directly with clients
- Ability to mentor and support less experienced engineers
- Proactive, professional, and customer-focused approach
- Formal qualifications and certifications are not essential, but hands-on technical experience and practical knowledge are highly valued
- Take ownership of complex technical issues escalated from junior engineers
- Work collaboratively with other senior engineers to resolve challenging technical problems
- Design, maintain, and document client network infrastructure
- Administer and troubleshoot Microsoft 365 and Azure environments across multiple client tenants
- Provide client-facing technical consultancy and advisory support
- Identify opportunities to improve infrastructure reliability, performance, and security
- Mentor and support junior engineers, sharing knowledge and technical experience
- Maintain high standards of technical documentation and best practice
- Participate in the on-call rotation following successful completion of the probationary period
- Azure
- Support
- LESS
- Microsoft 365
- Network
- Security
- Office 365
- Cloud
- DevOps
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We are a well-established and growing Microsoft Partner Managed Service Provider based in Bicester, Oxfordshire, supporting more than 120 businesses across Oxfordshire and beyond. We pride ourselves on delivering a genuinely personal, engineer-led service, where clients speak directly to technical professionals rather than being passed through a call centre. This is a senior technical role with genuine responsibility and autonomy, offering exposure to networking, Microsoft 365, and Azure, along with the opportunity to work in a collaborative senior engineering environment, provide client-facing consultancy, and mentor junior engineers. The salary is £38,000–£42,000 per annum, depending on experience, and on-call participation is included after successful completion of probation.
last updated 32 week of 2026
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Equation Recruitment
Bicester
IT
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£40,000
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£75,000
UK median
This salary is 47% below the UK median for Senior roles (£75,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks