Senior Hybrid Microsoft 365 & SharePoint Engineer

Excelsior University

City of Albany (NY)

Hybrid

USD 90,000 - 100,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Excelsior University in Albany, NY is seeking a Senior Microsoft 365 & SharePoint Engineer to design, implement, and secure our Microsoft 365 ecosystem, including SharePoint Online, Teams, OneDrive, Power Platform, Exchange Online, and Entra ID. You will lead governance, automation, and platform improvements within a complex enterprise environment.

This full-time hybrid role requires mentoring staff, delivering documentation and training, maintaining architecture diagrams, and partnering with

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/IS or related field required.
Five or more years of experience administering Microsoft 365 in an enterprise environment.
Three or more years of SharePoint Online administration and solution development.
Experience with Microsoft Entra ID, Exchange Online, Teams administration, and OneDrive.
Experience implementing Microsoft governance and security controls.
Strong understanding of Microsoft 365 architecture and cloud services.
Demonstrated expertise in SharePoint Online administration and information architecture.

Responsibilities

Administer Microsoft 365 services, including SharePoint Online, Teams, Exchange Online, OneDrive, Entra ID, and related platforms.
Manage conditional access, privileged access, RBAC, MFA, access reviews, group governance, licensing, policies, and service health.
Monitor availability, security, performance, updates, feature releases, and operational issues across Microsoft 365.
Design and maintain SharePoint Online sites, intranet solutions, information architecture, taxonomy, metadata, and content governance standards.
Build document, records management, collaboration, and migration solutions in partnership with business units.
Establish Teams lifecycle, naming, guest access, external sharing, ownership, sprawl control, and retention practices.
Create dashboards, reports, reusable templates, workflows, documentation, and automation to reduce manual processes.
Implement Microsoft Purview, retention, DLP, sensitivity labels, information protection, and data governance policies.
Support identity governance, least-privilege access, security audits, risk assessments, regulatory compliance, and M365 governance standards.
Serve as senior technical escalation for Microsoft 365, SharePoint, and Teams issues.
Mentor IT staff and deliver knowledge articles, technical documentation, user guidance, training, and workshops.
Maintain architecture diagrams, configuration documentation, operational procedures, disaster recovery, and business continuity plans.
Evaluate emerging Microsoft technologies, roadmap updates, licensing changes, security recommendations, certifications, and professional development opportunities.