3rd Line Engineer

Bechtle UK; Hardingstone; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentives

Subsidised health care

Annual leave 25–30 days

Hybrid working

Job summary

Bechtle UK in Northamptonshire is seeking a 3rd Line Engineer to deliver advanced support for enterprise infrastructure. You will act as escalation point for 1st/2nd line teams, maintain high standards of customer service, and drive incident resolution across Windows Server, AD, Exchange, RDS, networking and storage environments.

The role involves on-site support as needed, regular SLA compliance, and collaboration with field engineers.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a 3rd line technical support role, covering core infrastructure.
• Proven experience with enterprise technologies such as Windows Server, AD, Exchange and RDS.
• Strong knowledge of networking, security devices, virtualization and storage systems.
• Experience with Dell/HP server hardware is advantageous.
• Industry certifications are highly desirable and will be considered.

Responsibilities

• Provide 3rd line technical support to Bechtle customers and log incidents promptly.
• Escalate to service team leaders as appropriate and communicate progress to customers.
• Collaborate with 1st/2nd line staff and field engineers to maintain service quality.
• Assist with incident root cause analysis and implement countermeasures.
• Create and maintain customer infrastructure documentation and runbooks.
• Provide on-site support when required and ensure SLA adherence.
• Support problem management and contribute to service improvement initiatives.

Skills

3rd line support

Windows Server

Active Directory

Exchange

Terminal Services/RDS

IIS

SharePoint

Networking

Firewalls & security devices

SAN storage

VMware vSphere

Hyper-V

Problem management/root cause analysis

Communication skills

Education

AZ-/MS-/CCNA-/CCDA-/VCP-/AIS-/ASE/-JNCIA certifications

Tools

Dell server hardware

HP server hardware

Job description

Job Role Responsibilities

As a 3rd Line Engineer, you will be responsible for providing 3rd line support to Bechtle customers ensuring that incidents, service requests, and updates are logged and processed quickly. You will work closely as a point of escalation for 1st and 2nd Line support, ensuring strong communication is maintained throughout.

User Support and advice: 20%

• Provide 3rd line technical support to customers.
• Provide high standard of customer service, ensuring that incidents, service requests, and updates from customers are logged and processed quickly and the customer is provided with regular progress updates.
• Escalate incidents to service team leaders as appropriate.
• Work closely with 1st and 2nd line technical support and field engineers to ensure a high level of communication is maintained
• Ensure updates and job sheets are accurate and completed following each incident or service request.
• Aid the service team for technical design, implementation and support of customer incidents and projects.
• Create and maintain suitable customer infrastructure / service documentation.
• Work with problem management team to determine incident root cause analysis and provide appropriate countermeasures from similar issues from re-occurring.
• Provide occasional on-site support at customer sites to resolve incidents.
• Take responsibility and exceed company and customer OLA / SLA’s
• Provide administrative and technical support of managed service operations including involvement of weekend tasks.
• Create and maintain strong relationships with other business units.
• Ensure customers and Bechtle equipment/goods are installed to appropriate standards and industry best practice.
• Undertake any other duties as required by the Server Team Leader or Service Desk Manager, which are deemed necessary to satisfy the needs of Bechtle.
• Seek and highlight additional opportunities whilst reviewing customers infrastructures.
• Suggest improvements for the on-going development of the service department.

Personal and Team Development

Personal and Team Development: 55%

• Provide cover or deputise for other analysts in their absence either within the same team or across teams.
• Undertake ad-hoc projects as agreed with the Management team on behalf of Support Services that may involve site visits, customer meetings, or vendor management.
• Show an outward commitment to actively develop personal knowledge.
• Develop new documentation and procedures.
• Train and coach, the member of the Managed Service Operation Centre to ensure that their knowledge grows with the role.

Research and Development

Research and Development: 5%

• Investigate new software and hardware for potentially new and existing clients to ensure that we are at the forefront of technology.
• Assist with Problem Investigation where necessary

Comply with Bechtle’s standard working practices

Comply with Bechtle’s standard working practices: 20%

Comply with all company, department and customer policies and procedures to include attending team meetings and completion of administrative tasks.

Job Requirements

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a 3rd line technical support role, supporting a variety of core infrastructure technology and services.
• Proven experience of supporting a broad range of enterprise technologies and applications including Windows Server, Active Directory, Exchange, Terminal Services/Remote Desktop Services, IIS, SharePoint, networking (DNS, DHCP, switches, routers), firewalls, perimeter/security devices, databases, backup and security software and SQL server.
• Expert knowledge and experience within the Wintel environment
• Good knowledge of Windows desktop operating systems
• Expert knowledge and experience with supporting Dell and HP server / blade hardware
• Good knowledge of Microsoft, Dell, HP, or NetApp SAN storage systems would be highly advantageous.
• Good knowledge of virtualisation technologies including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V would be highly advantageous.
• Hold two or more industry recognised and relevant certifications, including but not limited to: AZ-*, MS-*, CCA, VCP, CCNA, CCDA, CSA, CSE, AIS, ASE, JNCIA-*. Additional accreditations would be highly desirable. Relevant operational experience will be taken into consideration if certifications are absent.
• Proven experience of problem management / root cause analysis
• Ability to work in a busy helpdesk environment and good knowledge of general helpdesk operations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

What we offer

Hybrid Working (3 days in/2 days out, after probation which is 3 months)

Starting Salary of £45k - £55k.

Location - Brackmills, Northampton.

Culture - Social events, Supportive, Fun, Hard working

Perks - Incentives (holidays, vouchers, lunches, spot prizes)

Top of the range technology in office and for home working (laptops, screens, latest iPhone, etc

Subsidised health care/medical benefits

Annual Leave - 25-30* days plus B. H’s + optional 2 weeks unpaid. *Increases with time spent

Progression Plan - training & mentor programme