Sr. Consultant - Microsoft platform support in Stevenage

Role – L2/L3 Support Engineer, Microsoft Platform

Technology – ITIL, ITSM/ticketing tools, CMDB practices

Location – Stevenage, UK

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled L2/L3 Support Engineer to provide advanced application and platform support across enterprise IT systems and business-critical applications. The role is responsible for incident resolution, service improvement, platform administration, and technical troubleshooting while ensuring high availability, performance, and user satisfaction.

The successful candidate will act as an escalation point for complex technical issues, working closely with business stakeholders, vendors, infrastructure teams, and application owners to maintain and enhance operational support services. The role requires strong knowledge of ITIL/ITSM processes, CMDB management, application administration, and reporting platforms, with a focus on delivering reliable and efficient support within SLA commitments.

Location & Security Requirements

Candidates who have previously held Security Check (SC) Clearance or are eligible to obtain SC Clearance will be preferred. Should be based within reasonable commuting distance of Stevenage, United Kingdom, or be willing to travel regularly to the Stevenage office/customer site as required.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide L2/L3 AMS support across multiple COTS and enterprise applications, ensuring service continuity, SLA adherence and high-quality resolution outcomes.
• Triage, diagnose and resolve incidents; provide workarounds where permanent fixes require change, and maintain clear communication with users and stakeholders throughout the ticket lifecycle.
• Perform root cause analysis for recurring/major incidents, document findings, maintain known error records and implement preventive actions through problem management.
• Support service requests covering access, configuration, data updates, application housekeeping and catalogue-driven fulfilment.
• Coordinate change and release activities including impact assessment, RFC creation, CAB support, deployment validation, back-out planning and post-implementation checks.
• Maintain operational documentation including SOPs, runbooks, knowledge articles, support models, configuration records and handover artefacts.
• Work closely with product vendors, third-party suppliers, Service Desk, infrastructure, security and business teams to manage dependencies and restoration paths.
• Support monitoring, health checks, certificate/service account tracking, vulnerability remediation, patching coordination and license/renewal reporting where applicable.
• Contribute to service improvement through trend analysis, automation opportunities, backlog reduction, knowledge reuse and operational reporting.

Required Skills/Experience:

• Application Management Services (AMS) experience in a managed services or enterprise support environment.
• Understanding of ITIL-aligned incident, problem, change, release, service request, configuration and knowledge management processes.
• Relevant IT experience, including hands-on AMS/application support for enterprise applications.
• Experience supporting multiple COTS/business applications; exposure to multiple tools such as SharePoint, SharpCloud, Visiativ, Pro-Sapien, Power BI or similar is preferred.
• Microsoft 365 Administration and Power BI Administration are preferred.
• Basic SQL and user access management knowledge is good to have.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across application, interface, data, access, configuration and environment issues.
• Working knowledge of ITSM/ticketing tools, CMDB practices, SLA/KPI reporting, dashboarding and operational governance.
• Ability to analyse logs, coordinate with infrastructure/database/security teams and manage dependencies with product vendors.
• Good understanding of patching, vulnerability remediation, application maintenance, certificate tracking and service account governance.
• Basic SQL/database understanding and awareness of integrations, APIs, job scheduling, file transfers and application interfaces.
• Experience working with onsite, offshore and third-party teams in a structured support model.

Preferred Experience:

• Aerospace, defence, manufacturing or regulated-industry experience is desirable.

Personal Skills

Besides the professional qualifications, we respect and place equal importance to the candidate’s personality which facilitates success in customer environments. Few traits we look for are:

• High analytical skills
• A high degree of initiative, flexibility and adaptability
• High customer orientation
• Good team engaging skills
• Quality awareness
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Transparency and Integrity