Essex
Technology
Permanent
02-08-2026
19-03-2026
PM-786-1057
£50,000 per annum plus company benefits
Job Purpose
We are seeking a hands-on Technical Infrastructure Team Lead take ownership of technical escalations and lead customer infrastructure and migration projects.
This is not a traditional service desk management role. You will remain technically involved, acting as the senior escalation point while helping to improve service standards and develop the engineers around you.
Working Arrangements - Hybrid.
Key Responsibilities
- Managing support tickets, workloads and performance against SLAs and KPIs.
- Acting as the highest technical escalation point for complex incidents.
- Delivering server, cloud and Microsoft 365 migration projects.
- Planning P2V, V2V, cloud and tenant-to-tenant migrations.
- Supporting Windows Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP and file services.
- Managing Microsoft 365, Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Entra ID and Intune.
- Supporting Azure, VMware and Hyper-V environments.
- Leading customer onboarding and technical transition projects.
- Completing root-cause analysis and implementing permanent fixes.
- Maintaining clear technical documentation and best practices.
- Attending customer sites for installations and complex support where required.
Qualifications and Experience
- At least five years’ experience across IT support and infrastructure.
- Previous experience working for a Managed Service Provider.
- Experience leading, managing or developing other engineers.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft 365, Azure, Windows Server and Active Directory.
- Experience delivering infrastructure or migration projects.
- Good knowledge of VMware or Hyper-V.
- Understanding of networking, firewalls, backup and disaster recovery.
- Confidence to take ownership of major incidents and customer escalations.
- Strong organisation and customer communication skills.
- Willingness to participate in a paid out-of-hours rota, up to one week per month.