Microsoft 365 Engineer

The role will be responsible for providing 3rd line support, optimisation and improvement to a global server estate that includes SharePoint services (on premise and cloud), Web infrastructure (IIS), SSO, Azure and SQL Server infrastructure.

Other responsibilities:

• Manage web and SharePoint farm globally, ensuring operational uptime and deliver improvement to services through code releases and deployments.
• Technology and system innovation to ensure current systems are kept up-to-date and within software and hardware supported guidelines and recommendations.
• Work collaboratively with other Business Services and vendor teams, with a focus on prompt delivery of deployments, support, and continually improvement to service offerings in a rapidly changing environment.
• Ensure the design and architecture of web, SharePoint, Azure Cloud Services, and SSO infrastructure meets the underlying service level targets., Microsoft 365 Engineer (SharePoint) - Initial 6 month Fixed Term Contract (FTC)

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Extensive administration and understanding of SharePoint, Web, SQL, and SSO. Good knowledge of web farm infrastructure, including load balancing best practices.

• Experience in SQL Server (Desirable but not essential)

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