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# Senior Application Support Engineer - French Speaking

- **Company:** gb
Kinetech Recruitment
- **Location:** Birmingham, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Access, PHP (Programming Language), Macintosh Application Environment, Batch Processing, Business Software, Windows Servers, MySQL, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Vba Programming Language, Service Stack
- **Published:** September 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/senior-application-support-engineer/kinetech-recruitment-job107965973

## About the Role

French and English language skills are strongly preferred, as the systems support a French business and you will need to communicate effectively with French-speaking users and stakeholders.

## Description

We are looking for an experienced Senior Application Support Engineer to provide ongoing support for a business-critical legacy application environment within a French business.

This is a hands-on application support role, focused on keeping established systems running reliably while resolving day-to-day technical issues, managing deployments and scheduled processes, and delivering minor enhancements where required., * Provide day-to-day support for business-critical legacy applications

 * Investigate, troubleshoot and resolve application and system issues
 * Support and maintain applications built using Microsoft Access and VBA
 * Work with MySQL and SQL databases, including investigation and troubleshooting
 * Support applications and services running within a Windows Server environment
 * Maintain and troubleshoot PHP-based functionality
 * Run and support application deployments
 * Monitor and maintain scheduled processes and jobs
 * Develop minor functionality enhancements and fixes
 * Work with business and technical stakeholders to understand and resolve issues

Essential Experience

We are looking for a strong Application Support Engineer with experience across several of the following:

 * Microsoft Access
 * VBA
 * SQL / MySQL
 * Windows Server
 * PHP
 * Supporting legacy or bespoke business applications
 * Application troubleshooting and root-cause investigation
 * Deployments and scheduled/batch processes
 * Minor application development or enhancement work

You should be comfortable taking ownership of issues within an established application environment rather than requiring a modern technology stack.


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