M365/SharePoint Administrator L3

Position: M365/SharePoint Administrator L3
Location: Jersey City NJ
Note: Client is not willing to sponsor any visa.   
 
 
Job responsibilities

• Working experience in On-premises Exchange 2019 / SE and M365 workloads (EXO, SPO, Teams & one Drive).

• Working experience in Exchange 2019 HA / Database Availability Group

• Working experience in Hybrid Mail flow, Edge Servers, Security and exchange patching

• Knowledge of Client connectivity

• Proficiency in scripting / PowerShell.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills.

• 10+ years  experience in Exchange 2019 / 2016   On-premises and M365 Exchange, Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint

• Any Certification on M365 / Exchange / SharePoint will be an added advantage.

Experience & Technical Requirements 
 
 Core Experience

• Minimum 10+ years of handson experience administering Microsoft SharePoint Server (onpremise) environments, with strong focus on SharePoint Server 2019.

• Proven experience supporting large, enterprisescale SharePoint farms (single/multifarm, multitier architecture).

• Experience operating SharePoint in production environments with strict availability, security, and changemanagement controls.

SharePoint Administration & Operations

• Strong handson expertise in:

• SharePoint farm administration, including Central Administration and service applications

• Site collections, sites, lists, libraries, and templates

• Permissions management (AD groups, SharePoint groups, inheritance, leastprivilege models)

• User Profile Service (UPS) configuration, synchronization, and troubleshooting

• Managed Metadata Service, Search Service, Secure Store, State Service, and other core service applications

• Experience handling user access issues, permission corruption, profile resets, and accessdenied scenarios.

Patching, Maintenance & Upgrades

• Handson experience with:

• SharePoint Server 2019 patching (Cumulative Updates / Security Updates)

• Prepatch validation, patch sequencing, and postpatch health checks

• Coordinating patching with SQL Server and Windows Server updates

• Troubleshooting postpatch issues (search failures, timer jobs, service outages).

Automation & PowerShell

• Strong handson experience using SharePoint Management Shell / PowerShell, including:

• Farm health checks

• Bulk site and permission operations

• Service application administration

• Scripted backup, restore, and cleanup tasks

• Ability to write, modify, and maintain custom PowerShell scripts for operational automation.

Backup, Restore & DR

• Proven experience with:

• Farmlevel, web application, and site collection backups and restores

• SQLlevel and SharePoint native backup/restore strategies

• Supporting DR testing and recovery activities

• Troubleshooting restore failures and content database issues.

IIS, Windows & SQL Server

• Strong working knowledge of:

• IIS administration for SharePoint (application pools, bindings, certificates, authentication settings)

• Windows Server administration related to SharePoint farms

• SQL Server used by SharePoint:

• Content databases, service application databases

• Basic performance troubleshooting (locks, growth, capacity planning)

• Coordinating with DBAs on maintenance and failovers

• Ability to analyze ULS logs, IIS logs, Event Viewer, and SQL errors for root cause analysis.

  
Monitoring & Troubleshooting

• Experience supporting SharePoint incidents and outages, including:

• Performance degradation

• Search and crawl failures

• Authentication and access issues

• Timer job and service failures

• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools (APM, synthetic monitoring, log aggregation such as Splunk is a plus).

Security & Compliance

• Experience implementing and supporting:

• SharePoint security baselines and hardening standards

• Permission reviews, audits, and remediation

• Handling audit or compliancedriven requests related to SharePoint data access

• Understanding of enterprise change control and incident management processes.

Nice to Have (Optional / Preferred)

• Experience with SharePoint Server Subscription Edition or upgrade planning

• Exposure to SharePoint Online / Hybrid environments

• Experience supporting migration projects from SharePoint 2019 to SharePoint Online

• Ability to document operational runbooks and standard operating procedures (SOPs).