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# Microsoft 365 Messaging & Collaboration Engineer

- **Company:** Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions Limited
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Salary:** £156,000.0 - £188,874.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Windows PowerShell, Microsoft InTune
- **Published:** November 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/gb/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-BA466925C9FC172733/

## About the Role

* Extensive, recent experience engineering Exchange Online and Microsoft 365 in enterprise environments
 * Hybrid Exchange experience, ideally including migrations from on-prem to Exchange Online
 * Good understanding of email routing and email security gateways, from any vendor
 * Solid PowerShell and Microsoft Graph skills
 * Entra ID, Conditional Access, Intune and Purview experience

Desirable: Teams telephony (wanted in one of the two hires), Proofpoint, financial services or other regulated environments, Defender for Office 365, Copilot readiness

## Description

Are you an experienced Microsoft 365 messaging engineer that people turn to when mail flow, Exchange Online or Teams needs a senior pair of hands? We're recruiting two contract Messaging & Collaboration Engineers for a leading global financial services organisation.

You'll be the 2nd and 3rd line escalation point for the support team and will get involved in project work as it arrives, including a migration exercise that is under way. It's a hybrid Exchange environment, mostly cloud with some mailboxes still on-prem, and you'll be expected to pick up work from day one.

What You'll Be Doing

 * Acting as the 2nd and 3rd line escalation point for the BAU support team
 * Supporting and evolving Exchange Online, Teams and wider Microsoft 365 collaboration services
 * Working across a hybrid Exchange environment, online and on-prem
 * Managing email routing, mail flow and the email security gateways around them
 * Supporting migration and other project work as it comes in
 * Automating with PowerShell and Microsoft Graph