Remote Modern Workplace M365 Engineer
Nelnet
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Nelnet is seeking a M365 Engineer - Modern Workplace to administer and govern SharePoint Online, Viva, Power Platform, Fabric, Azure, and Copilot across the enterprise. This remote, full-time role partners with business and IT teams to enable secure collaboration, automation, analytics, and AI-enabled workplace solutions.
The ideal candidate has 3+ years of hands-on Microsoft 365 administration in an enterprise and strong governance, deployment, and documentation skills, with a focus on security
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Science, Computer Science, Information Technology, related field, and/or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience administering Microsoft 365 in an enterprise environment.
- Experience administering and governing SharePoint Online and related collaboration workloads.
- Experience with Microsoft Viva, Power Platform, Power BI, Copilot Studio, Microsoft Fabric, or similar business solution platforms.
- Experience supporting Microsoft Azure services related to Modern Workplace solutions, including platform governance and application integrations.
- Experience supporting Copilot for Microsoft 365 readiness, adoption, governance, or enablement activities.
- Experience with PowerShell, Microsoft Graph API, Power Platform automation, Azure Automation, Logic Apps, REST APIs, JSON, webhooks, or similar scripting and automation technologies.
- Familiarity with security and compliance concepts such as MFA, Conditional Access, DLP, retention policies, and information governance.
- Strong troubleshooting skills with the ability to work independently on complex incidents, problems, and service requests.
Responsibilities
- Modern Workplace Platform Administration & Governance: Administer and support SharePoint Online, Microsoft Viva, Power Platform, Microsoft Fabric, Azure services, and Copilot capabilities with an emphasis on governance, lifecycle management, reliability, and service health.
- SharePoint Online & Content Collaboration: Support collaboration sites, content management, permissions, site architecture, document management, adoption, and information governance practices across SharePoint Online and related Microsoft 365 workloads.
- Business Enablement & Low-Code Solutions: Partner with business stakeholders to identify automation, workflow, reporting, and digital transformation opportunities using Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Copilot Studio, and related platform capabilities.
- Microsoft Fabric & Analytics Support: Support Fabric and Power BI administration activities that enable data integration, dataflows, reporting, business intelligence, and analytics use cases in alignment with organizational governance standards.
- Azure Services Management: Administer Azure services that support Modern Workplace solutions, including subscriptions, resource groups, storage accounts, serverless services, application integrations, automation, and operational governance outside of Entra ID administration.
- Copilot Readiness & Adoption: Support Copilot for Microsoft 365 readiness, governance, adoption, communication, end-user enablement, and related operational processes.
- Integration & Automation: Automate administrative and operational tasks using PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, Power Platform automation, Azure Automation, Logic Apps, REST APIs, JSON, webhooks, and other scripting or integration technologies as appropriate.
- Security, Compliance & Change Management: Partner with security, compliance, infrastructure, networking, and service desk teams to maintain a secure, stable, and compliant environment while supporting change management, release planning, DLP, retention, access controls, and platform governance activities.
- Escalation, Documentation & Knowledge Transfer: Serve as an escalation point for complex Microsoft 365 incidents and service requests; develop and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, standards, operational procedures, training materials, and adoption resources; and mentor or provide knowledge transfer to support staff as needed.
- Continuous Improvement & Microsoft Roadmap: Monitor platform health, licensing, service advisories, Message Center updates, Azure and Microsoft 365 roadmap changes, emerging AI and collaboration capabilities, and recommend improvements that strengthen reliability, security, user experience, and operational efficiency.
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Nelnet is seeking a M365 Engineer - Modern Workplace to administer and govern SharePoint Online, Viva, Power Platform, Fabric, Azure, and Copilot across the enterprise. This remote, full-time role partners with business and IT teams to enable secure collaboration, automation, analytics, and AI-enabled workplace solutions.
The ideal candidate has 3+ years of hands-on Microsoft 365 administration in an enterprise and strong governance, deployment, and documentation skills, with a focus on security
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