Messaging & Collaboration L3 / Level 300 Engineer

Cognizant; Foster City (CA); Hybrid; USD 99,000 - 116,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant in Foster City, CA is seeking a Messaging & Collaboration L3 Engineer to provide advanced support, administration, governance, and escalation management across Exchange Online, on-prem, mail security, and collaboration tools.

You will serve as the highest technical escalation point for Messaging operations, support mailbox provisioning, migrations, retention/compliance, and runbooks, while mentoring L1/L2 teams.

Qualifications

• 5-8+ years of enterprise messaging support.
• Strong Exchange Online and Hybrid Exchange experience.
• Experience with Proofpoint, Clearswift, or similar email security platforms.
• Enterprise Vault administration and mailbox migrations.

Responsibilities

• Act as the L3 escalation point for Messaging & Collaboration incidents.
• Administer Exchange Online, Exchange On-Prem, Proofpoint, Clearswift, Enterprise Vault, Biscom, and BitTitan.
• Troubleshoot complex mail flow, routing, connector, gateway, and hybrid Exchange issues.
• Support onboarding/offboarding, mailbox provisioning, permissions, and shared mailbox administration.
• Manage email security, anti-spam, anti-phishing, and secure mail gateway operations.
• Support mailbox migrations, tenant-to-tenant transitions, and messaging modernization projects.
• Support retention, legal hold, archive restore, journaling, and compliance activities.
• Maintain runbooks, SOPs/SOWs, knowledge articles, and transition documentation.
• Provide KT, reverse KT, and mentoring support for L1/L2 teams.

Skills

L3 escalation

Mailbox provisioning

Cross-functional collaboration

PowerShell scripting

Tools

Exchange Online

Exchange On-Prem / Hybrid Exchange

Proofpoint Cloud

Proofpoint On-Prem

Clearswift

Enterprise Vault

Bit Titan MigrationWiz

Biscom

Microsoft 365 Administration

PowerShell

ServiceNow

Job description

Messaging & Collaboration L3 / Level 300 Engineer

Foster City CA / Remote options can be considered for right candidate

Role Summary

The Messaging & Collaboration L3 Engineer will provide advanced technical support, administration, governance, and escalation management across messaging platforms, email security services, migration tools, and collaboration technologies. The role serves as the highest technical escalation point for Messaging operations and supports enterprise messaging stability, security, compliance, and service continuity. ,

Mandatory Level 300 (L3) SME Skills

Core Messaging Platforms

• Exchange Online
• Exchange Server On-Premises / Hybrid Exchange
• Shared & Application Mailboxes
• Mail Flow & Transport Management

Email Security & Compliance

• Proofpoint Cloud
• Proofpoint On-Prem
• Clearswift (UK)
• Enterprise Vault
• Email Retention, Journaling & eDiscovery

Migration & Collaboration

• BitTitan Mail Migration
• Biscom
• Messaging-related SharePoint/OneDrive integrations

Core Responsibilities

• Act as the L3 escalation point for Messaging & Collaboration incidents.
• Administer Exchange Online, Exchange On-Prem, Proofpoint, Clearswift, Enterprise Vault, Biscom, and BitTitan.
• Troubleshoot complex mail flow, routing, connector, gateway, and hybrid Exchange issues.
• Support onboarding/offboarding, mailbox provisioning, permissions, and shared mailbox administration.
• Manage email security, anti-spam, anti-phishing, and secure mail gateway operations.
• Support mailbox migrations, tenant-to-tenant transitions, and messaging modernization projects.
• Support retention, legal hold, archive restore, journaling, and compliance activities.
• Maintain runbooks, SOPs/SOWs, knowledge articles, and transition documentation.
• Provide KT, reverse KT, and mentoring support for L1/L2 teams. ,

Required Technical Skills

Mandatory

• Exchange Online
• Exchange On-Prem / Hybrid Exchange
• Proofpoint Cloud
• Proofpoint On-Prem
• Clearswift
• Enterprise Vault
• BitTitan MigrationWiz
• Biscom
• Microsoft 365 Administration
• PowerShell
• ServiceNow

Preferred

• Entra ID / Azure AD
• SPF / DKIM / DMARC
• Email Security & Compliance
• SharePoint/OneDrive integration support

Experience

• 5-8+ years supporting enterprise Messaging environments.
• Strong Exchange Online and Hybrid Exchange experience.
• Experience with Proofpoint, Clearswift, or similar email security platforms.
• Experience with Enterprise Vault administration.
• Experience handling mailbox migrations and L3 escalations.
• Experience supporting global Microsoft 365 environments. ,

The Salary for this position will be 99,000 and 116 000 yearly depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer: The compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.