Exchange Engineer (Contract)

DGH Recruitment are currently recruiting on behalf of a leading client in the Professional Services industry who require an Microsoft Exchange Engineer to join the firm in London on an initial 5 month contract basis.

PLEASE NOTE: This role will fall inside IR35.

You will be responsible for the end-to-end migration, remediation, and decommissioning of their Microsoft Exchange 2016 environment.

Responsibilities:

• Assess Exchange architecture, mail flow, SMTP dependencies, and migration readiness.
• Design, build, configure, and support Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE) environments.
• Plan and deliver Exchange 2016 migration activities to Exchange SE and/or Exchange Online, including mailbox migrations and coexistence activities.
• Implement mail flow, SMTP relay, and messaging remediation activities required to support domain, identity, tenant, and email address changes.
• Work with infrastructure, networking, security, identity, Microsoft 365, Mimecast, and Proofpoint teams to deliver messaging and email security solutions.
• Coordinate testing, cutover, validation, and post-migration support activities.
• Decommission Exchange 2016 infrastructure and associated messaging services following successful migration.
• Troubleshoot and resolve messaging, mail flow, SMTP, authentication, certificate, DNS, and connectivity issues.
• Maintain technical documentation, migration records, risks, and dependencies.

• Hands-on experience with Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE), Exchange Online, and hybrid messaging environments.
• Experience delivering Exchange migrations, mail flow transformations, and SMTP relay remediation activities.
• Experience working with Mimecast, Proofpoint, or similar email security and gateway platforms.
• Experience supporting environments impacted by Active Directory, Entra ID, DNS, networking, and certificate changes.
• Experience coordinating technical teams, vendors, and business stakeholders to deliver messaging solutions.
• Experience supporting testing, cutover, migration, and decommissioning activities within large enterprise environments.

In accordance with the Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003, this position is advertised based upon DGH Recruitment Limited having first sought approval of its client to find candidates for this position.

DGH Recruitment Limited acts as both an Employment Agency and Employment Business