The Role
Investigate and resolve incidents and problems related to the Dynamics Power Platform stack, technical issues related to D365 CE/F&O, Legacy CE On-Premise, AX2012, and Azure, including server errors.
Investigate infrastructure issues related to customer Microsoft Dynamics solutions.
Experience with high availability/disaster recovery technology for SQL.
Manage SQL Server databases through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to production systems.
Identify and implement automation opportunities.
Communicate and troubleshoot incidents and problems alongside third-party providers where required in a timely and professional manner through to resolution.
Provide consultancy as required for customers, including the provision of advice and change where needed.
Ensure support calls are logged and resolutions are documented on the support site.
Take ownership of user problems and be proactive when dealing with issues, ensuring all updates are recorded in the case management system.
Redirect or escalate support requests to the appropriate member of staff or Microsoft.
Provide support to existing clients and internal users.
Proactively provide information to users on the progress of outstanding support calls in a professional and timely manner.
Develop effective relationships with the company’s customers, suppliers, partners, and internal stakeholders.
Adhere to the Change Control policy.
Be available to assist outside of UK working hours where required for high-priority incidents.
May be required to provide support for the P1 “Out of Hours” process as part of an on-call support rota.
Assist in determining, planning, and implementing necessary changes to the IT infrastructure as needed.
Typical Activities
Diagnostic
Provide hardware and infrastructure sizing advice to customers and prospects.
Understand and judge whether a support incident is a valid issue to investigate under the customer’s support contract.
Analysis
Investigate and propose resolutions to customers’ infrastructure issues for their Microsoft Dynamics solutions.
Understand and document customers’ support issues.
Update the eBECS Support System with details of the support case.
Ensure details of support cases are communicated with customers.
Provide estimates to complete chargeable work relating to support incidents.
Provide estimates to install software for a customer.
Design
Provide documentation and hardware designs to prospects and customers.
Document solutions to customers' technical and infrastructure issues.
Design and assist in implementing and installing software for prospects and customers.
Development
Assist with the preparation of documentation.
Provide solutions to customers’ support issues.
Conduct systems testing and simulate load tests where required.
Deployment
Build and configure new server and application environments both on-premise and on cloud-based solutions.
Assist in deploying technical and infrastructure solutions to customers.
Utilize the eBECS Support System to provide timely responses to cases within SLAs.
Ensure communication is timely and accurate with customers.
Operation
Ad-hoc support reacting to any system failures or security issues.
Deliver resolutions to support issues.
Accurate and timely updating of the eBECS Support System.
Accurate recording of time spent on support cases and chargeable work.
Key Deliverables
Support customers in a timely and proactive manner.
Support of managed IT systems and networks.
Personal development by increasing knowledge of systems and Azure services.
Soft Skills
Team-oriented; willing to align work with the team’s priorities and goals.
Strong Time Management Skills And Multitasking Abilities.
Able to influence, negotiate, and build consensus.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with excellent telephone manner.
Proven ability to problem-solve and pick up new concepts and technologies.
Business and requirements analysis.
Excellent customer-facing and customer management skills.
Effective listening skills with a high level of attention to detail, with the ability to adjust a solution based on the situation.
Candidate must be able to multitask and manage several incidents at any one time.
Required Functional/Technical Skills
A minimum of three years’ experience working with Microsoft Power Platform, Azure, LCS.
Good understanding of Dynamics AX 2009, AX 2012 installation configuration, and troubleshooting.
Good understanding of CRM2015 & above on-premise installation configuration and troubleshooting, Deployment Manager/Internet Facing Deployment Setup.
Knowledge of Data Integration, Azure SQL, Azure Administration, Azure functions, logic apps, Application registration – setup, Azure Entra ID. Azure SQL Server.
Good understanding of SQL Server, supporting versions 2012 onwards. Installation/configuration of SQL Server components. Performance troubleshooting/analysis. Index maintenance, execution plan analysis. Database maintenance & SQL Server instance maintenance, High Availability, AlwaysOn/Clustering, SSRS, On-Premises SQL & Reporting and analysis services.
Proven knowledge of Microsoft systems, Windows Server. Microsoft domain infrastructure and technologies (Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, RDS, WDS, ADFS).
Good working knowledge of networking TCP/IP, VLAN management.
Dynamics AX Life cycle services experience.
D365 CE & F&O
- Performance troubleshooting
- Power Platform Administration
- Environment refresh
- Space Utilization/Management
- SSL Certificate Management
- Dual Write
- Integrations
Other Desirable Skills
Any Microsoft System Centre, SCCM, SCOM knowledge is an advantage.
Office 365/Exchange 2010, 2013, M365 administration is an advantage.
Any experience managing a customer subscription on Azure is an advantage.
D365 CRM & F&O
- Security
- Solution management (Building/Exporting/Importing)
- Flows/workflows
- XRM toolbox
- CRM Integration with D365 F&O (Dual Write)
- Data Export to Data Lake
- Data Export to One Lake
- Microsoft Fabric
- Life Cycle Services (LCS)
- Data Export/Import Routines
- Data Export to Data Lake/ Data Warehousing
Dynamics AX 2009/2012, Enterprise Portal Setup/configuration.
Azure General, Monitoring, Provisioning Infrastructure in Azure (VM, Network, App Gateways, Storage, etc).
Knowledge of SharePoint Administration.
SolarWinds experience