Email Migration Engineer

Apex Systems; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 139,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid schedule

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401K with company match

ESPP and other perks

Job summary

Apex Systems is seeking an experienced Email Migration Engineer for a 12-month contract. The role focuses on moving email and collaboration services to a modern Microsoft 365 environment with secure, reliable operations.

Responsibilities include assessment, migration strategy design, and automation using PowerShell, Graph, and Exchange Online, with hybrid connectivity and tenant-to-tenant migrations. Hybrid schedule supports 3 in-office days and 2 remote days.

Qualifications

• Strong Exchange Online expertise required.
• Strong Powershell expertise required.
• Experience with tenant-to-tenant migrations and co-existence planning.
• Understanding mailbox structures and PST exports/imports.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and current-state assessment of legacy email and collaboration platforms and dependencies.
• Design and execute migration strategies for Microsoft 365 messaging workloads including cutover and rollback.
• Analyze mail flow, SMTP routing, hybrid connectivity, tenant configuration, and identity integration.
• Coordinate testing, pilot migrations, user acceptance, and post-migration support.
• Develop automation and reporting using PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, Exchange Online, and related services.
• Utilize Splunk to monitor email logs and configuration data for migration activity.

Skills

Exchange Online

PowerShell

Tenant-to-tenant migrations

Mailbox structures

PST exports/imports

Email security

Security & compliance

Tools

Microsoft Graph

Exchange Online

Active Directory

Microsoft Teams

Splunk Enterprise

Job description

12 mo. Contract

Job#: 3045052

Job Description:

Email Migration Engineer

Pay Range: $65-67/hr.

12 mo. Contract

Hybrid Schedule: 3 days in office/2 days remote

Approved Locations: Pittsburgh, PA; Lake Mary, FL; New York, NY; Jersey City, NJ

Role Overview

Apex Systems is seeking an experienced Email Migration Engineer to support a large-scale enterprise messaging and collaboration transformation program. The successful candidate will assess, engineer, automate, and execute migration activities that move email and collaboration services to a modern Microsoft 365 environment while maintaining secure, reliable enterprise messaging operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and current-state assessment of legacy email and collaboration platforms, including dependencies, risks, migration readiness, and architecture impacts.
• Design and execute migration strategies for Microsoft 365 messaging workloads, including Exchange Online, coexistence, wave planning, cutover, rollback, and operational readiness.
• Analyze and troubleshoot mail flow, SMTP routing, hybrid connectivity, tenant configuration, identity integration, interoperability, and email security issues.
• Partner with infrastructure, cybersecurity, compliance, identity, networking, end-user computing, architecture, and business teams to deliver secure and compliant migrations.
• Coordinate testing, pilot migrations, user acceptance validation, post-migration support, defect resolution, and operational handoff.
• Develop automation and reporting using PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, Exchange / Exchange Online, Active Directory, Microsoft Teams, and related Microsoft 365 services.
• Use Splunk Enterprise to search, analyze, report, and dashboard email log and configuration data supporting migration activity and operational management.
• Create migration plans, runbooks, risk assessments, implementation artifacts, status updates, executive-ready summaries, and knowledge transfer materials.
• Improve delivery patterns through standardization, repeatable processes, automation, resilience, and a strong user-experience focus.

Required Qualifications:

• Strong Exchange online expertise
• Strong Powershell expertise
• Experience with tenant-to-tenant migrations
• Understanding of:
  • Mailbox structures
  • PST exports/imports
  • Data movement between tenants
• Strong communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience utilizing migration tools
• Splunk experience

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

• Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection.
• We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure.
• Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts.
• In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA.
• Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

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Everforth Apex is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Benefits Department at [email protected] or 804-523-8228. (Do not submit resumes or solicit consultants to this email address). UnitedHealthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Everforth Apex.