M365/SharePoint Administrator L3

Position: M365/SharePoint Administrator L3
Location: Jersey City NJ(Onsite)
Contract

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 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.
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SharePoint Administration & Operations
•    Strong hands on expertise in: 
o    SharePoint farm administration, including Central Administration and service applications
o    Site collections, sites, lists, libraries, and templates
o    Permissions management (AD groups, SharePoint groups, inheritance, least privilege models)
o    User Profile Service (UPS) configuration, synchronization, and troubleshooting
o    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.
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Patching, Maintenance & Upgrades
•    Hands on experience with: 
o    SharePoint Server 2019 patching (Cumulative Updates / Security Updates)
o    Pre patch validation, patch sequencing, and post patch health checks
o    Coordinating patching with SQL Server and Windows Server updates
o    Troubleshooting post patch issues (search failures, timer jobs, service outages).
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Automation & PowerShell
•    Strong hands on experience using SharePoint Management Shell / PowerShell, including: 
o    Farm health checks
o    Bulk site and permission operations
o    Service application administration
o    Scripted backup, restore, and cleanup tasks
•    Ability to write, modify, and maintain custom PowerShell scripts for operational automation.
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Backup, Restore & DR
•    Proven experience with: 
o    Farm level, web application, and site collection backups and restores
o    SQL level and SharePoint native backup/restore strategies
o    Supporting DR testing and recovery activities
o    Troubleshooting restore failures and content database issues.
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IIS, Windows & SQL Server
•    Strong working knowledge of: 
o    IIS administration for SharePoint (application pools, bindings, certificates, authentication settings)
o    Windows Server administration related to SharePoint farms
o    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.
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Monitoring & Troubleshooting
•    Experience supporting SharePoint incidents and outages, including: 
o    Performance degradation
o    Search and crawl failures
o    Authentication and access issues
o    Timer job and service failures
•    Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools (APM, synthetic monitoring, log aggregation such as Splunk is a plus).
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Security & Compliance
•    Experience implementing and supporting: 
o    SharePoint security baselines and hardening standards
o    Permission reviews, audits, and remediation
o    Handling audit or compliance driven requests related to SharePoint data access
•    Understanding of enterprise change control and incident management processes.
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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).