Senior Remote Modern Workplace M365 Engineer

Nelnet; Hartford (CT); Remote; USD 75,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Nelnet is seeking a M365 Engineer - Modern Workplace to administer and govern SharePoint Online, Viva, Power Platform, and Azure services in a remote, full-time capacity. The role focuses on governance, automation, and enabling analytics with Copilot and Fabric, while partnering with security and compliance teams.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years of enterprise Microsoft 365 experience, strong troubleshooting, and a degree in information science, CS, or IT.

Qualifications

• 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

• Administer and support SharePoint Online, Microsoft Viva, Power Platform, Microsoft Fabric, Azure services, and Copilot capabilities with governance and reliability.
• Support collaboration sites, content management, permissions, site architecture, document management, adoption, and information governance across SharePoint Online and related workloads.
• 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.
• Support Fabric and Power BI administration activities enabling data integration, dataflows, reporting, BI, and analytics under governance.
• Administer Azure services supporting Modern Workplace solutions, including subscriptions, resource groups, storage, serverless, application integrations, automation, and governance.
• Support Copilot for 365 readiness, governance, adoption, communication, and end-user enablement.
• Automate administrative tasks using PowerShell, Graph API, Power Platform automation, Azure Automation, Logic Apps, REST APIs, JSON, webhooks.
• Collaborate with security, compliance, infrastructure, networking, service desk to maintain security and governance while supporting change management.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, standards, procedures, training materials, and adoption resources; mentor staff.
• Monitor platform health, licensing, advisories, roadmap changes, and propose improvements for reliability, security, UX.

Skills

Communication

Troubleshooting

Security

Self-directed

Collaboration

Learning agility

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Science / CS / IT

Tools

SharePoint Online

Microsoft Viva

Power Platform

Copilot Studio

Microsoft Fabric

Azure services

Power BI

Microsoft Graph API

PowerShell

Azure Automation

Logic Apps

REST APIs

JSON

Webhooks

Job description

Nelnet is seeking a M365 Engineer - Modern Workplace to administer and govern SharePoint Online, Viva, Power Platform, and Azure services in a remote, full-time capacity. The role focuses on governance, automation, and enabling analytics with Copilot and Fabric, while partnering with security and compliance teams.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years of enterprise Microsoft 365 experience, strong troubleshooting, and a degree in information science, CS, or IT.