Microsoft 365 Administrator

Your new company

This organisation is a global deep-tech innovation, product development, and technology consulting company. They specialise in creating new-to-the-world technologies, products, and services for clients across multiple industries.

Your new role

Your role as the Microsoft 365 Administrator will be to manage and optimise the Microsoft 365 environment, including Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint Online, Office applications, OneDrive and Viva Engage. You will ensure these platforms are secure, resilient and aligned to the evolving needs of the business.

You will stay up to date on developments across the Microsoft 365 platform, proactively identifying opportunities to enhance user experience, strengthen security and streamline processes. You will ensure improvements are Embedded effectively across the business by effectively communicating these to your team and colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible and provide support for our Exchange Online environment, including mailboxes, groups, resources, email encryption, signatures, mail flow and support of email clients including Outlook, Outlook on the Web and mobile access.
• Be responsible and provide support for SharePoint, oversee site life cycle, storage allocation, and sharing controls.
• Be responsible and provide support for Teams, Outlook and other Office Applications.
• Provide support for compliance audits and reporting.
• Work with the IT security team to ensure all systems remain up to date and secure, actively supporting conditional access policies, identity and access management controls, and broader security frameworks, while assisting in the administration and optimisation of email security technologies.
• Keep up to date with the Microsoft 365 roadmap, identify upcoming changes and new features, communicate and implement appropriate changes across the business.
• Create and maintain technical documentation.

What you'll need to succeed

• Hands-on experience of managing and supporting Microsoft 365 services.
• Proven ability to administrate Microsoft 365 using PowerShell and Graph.
• Technical knowledge of Microsoft 365, email security, Active Directory and Entra ID.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex issues and investigate solutions.
• Willingness to support all areas of the IT services user base as required.
• Excellent communication, documentation and interpersonal skills and the ability to work well within a small team.

It would also be useful if you had knowledge of the following, however, we would still encourage you to apply without:

• Teams Telephony
• Copilot
• Power BI
• Purview
• Avepoint Cloud Governance

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

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