Microsoft 365 Engineer

Senior Microsoft 365 Engineer - Entra ID Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Microsoft 365 Engineer to join our team. As a Senior Microsoft 365 Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing modern collaboration, identity, and security solutions across Microsoft 365 environments.

This senior-level position focuses on SharePoint Online, Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory), Exchange Online, Teams, OneDrive, and Microsoft Purview for compliance. You will lead client-facing projects related to migrations, secure collaboration, tenant design, identity governance, and productivity optimization.

The engineer will act as a trusted advisor during planning, deployment, and post-go-live stabilization phases, ensuring secure, scalable, and supportable solutions that drive business success.

Responsibilities

• Design and Deploy Modern Collaboration Solutions: Design, deploy, and support SharePoint Online modern site structures, permission models, document libraries, and metadata.
• Configure and Maintain Identity and Security Solutions: Configure and maintain Microsoft Entra ID, including hybrid identity sync, conditional access, MFA, and privileged identity management.
• Manage Cloud Services: Deploy and manage Teams, OneDrive, and Exchange Online, including policy enforcement, mailbox migrations, and retention rules.
• Plan and Execute Migrations: Plan and lead Microsoft 365 migrations (on-prem and tenant-to-tenant), ensuring data integrity and user continuity.
• Optimize Business Workflows: Build low-code automation using Power Automate and Power Apps to optimize business workflows.
• Enforce Governance and Compliance Policies: Design and enforce Microsoft 365 governance, lifecycle, labeling, and DLP policies through Microsoft Project Execution features.

Project Execution

• Serve as Technical Lead: Serve as the senior technical lead for M365, SharePoint, and Entra-focused projects from planning through post-implementation.
• Collaborate with Project Manager: Collaborate with the Project Manager to define technical milestones, risk mitigation, and task sequencing.
• Deliver Client Training: Deliver client training, adoption sessions, and early support during project execution.

Compliance and Identity Governance

• Configure Security Features: Configure and monitor security features across M365, including conditional access, MFA, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, compliance alerts, and insider risk policies.
• Support Governance Policy Design: Support governance policy design related to external sharing, access reviews, data retention, and hybrid environments.
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity Teams: Work alongside cybersecurity, compliance, and NOC teams to ensure secure, policy-driven Microsoft 365 implementations.

Handoff and Team Enablement

• Document Configurations: Document configurations, identity models, policy designs, site structures, and project runbooks using tools such as Hudu.
• Contribute to Internal Documentation: Contribute to internal documentation standards, templates, and best practices.
• Support Seamless Handoff: Support seamless handoff to support and service teams after project completion.

Qualifications and Skills

• 5+ years of experience in IT engineering roles, with 2+ years of hands-on Microsoft 365 and Entra ID experience.
• Proficient with Microsoft 365 suite: Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams, OneDrive.
• Hands-on experience designing and managing Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), hybrid sync, SSO, and conditional access.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Microsoft Purview, DLP, retention, and compliance tools.
• Strong PowerShell skills for scripting, reporting, and automation.
• Experience planning and executing M365 tenant-to-tenant or on-prem to cloud migrations.
• Ability to manage projects independently and interface directly with clients.

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