W2 contract || Microsoft365 Administrator L3

Job Title: M365/SharePoint Administrator L3

Job Location: Jersey City, NJ (Onsite from day one)

Job Duration: 12+ months

 

Minimum years of experience required: 8+ years

Type of Hire: w2 contract

 

JOB DETAILS:

• 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 hands‑on experience administering Microsoft SharePoint Server (on‑premise) environments, with strong focus on SharePoint Server 2019.
• Proven experience supporting large, enterprise‑scale SharePoint farms (single/multi‑farm, multi‑tier architecture).
• Experience operating SharePoint in production environments with strict availability, security, and change‑management controls.

 

SharePoint Administration & Operations

• Strong hands‑on 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, least‑privilege 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 access‑denied scenarios.

 

Patching, Maintenance & Upgrades

• Hands‑on experience with:
  • SharePoint Server 2019 patching (Cumulative Updates / Security Updates)
  • Pre‑patch validation, patch sequencing, and post‑patch health checks
  • Coordinating patching with SQL Server and Windows Server updates
  • Troubleshooting post‑patch issues (search failures, timer jobs, service outages).

 

Automation & PowerShell

• Strong hands‑on 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:
  • Farm‑level, web application, and site collection backups and restores
  • SQL‑level 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 compliance‑driven 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).