SharePoint System Administrator SME

Leidos; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 116,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and Wellness programs

Income Protection

Paid Leave and Retirement

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a SharePoint Subject Matter Expert to support a large enterprise IT contract for the DoD. You will deploy, operate, and maintain SharePoint services across multiple enclaves, with emphasis on authentication, site setup, and access control.

The role requires strong customer focus, excellent communication, and the ability to manage complex environments including 24/7 operations. A Bachelor's degree with extensive experience is required, plus DoD credentialing considerations.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with SharePoint technologies including SP2016/2019, SPSE and SharePoint Online.
• Experience configuring, installing, and securing SharePoint systems.
• Familiarity with SQL clusters supporting SharePoint farms.
• Experience with patch maintenance for SQL clusters and SharePoint farms.
• Experience with PKI and claims-based authentication.
• Experience with load balancers such as F5 BigIP or Citrix NetScaler.
• Experience with M365/O365 (Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint Online).
• Experience with ITSM ticketing systems like ServiceNow.
• Clearance: US Citizenship; TS/SCI with poly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Interact with site/collection owners to handle service inquiries and problems.
• Provide implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of IT systems.
• Oversee SharePoint projects including upgrades and migrations.
• Manage permissions in site collections and O365/M365 access.
• Update operations documentation and produce After Action Reports.
• Maintain monitoring of services using SolarWinds, PowerShell and related tools.

Skills

SharePoint technologies

SharePoint Online

PKI authentication

Claims-based authentication

PowerShell

ITSM (ServiceNow)

Team collaboration

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Associate's degree

High School Diploma

Tools

Nintex

InfoPath

PowerBI

SPPatchify

VMware

Windows Server Administration

Job description

Looking for an opportunity to make an impact? At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainable. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business. If this sounds like a mission you want to be a part of, keep reading! Leidos is seeking a SharePoint Subject Matter Expert (SME) to support a large enterprise IT contract for the DOD. The SharePoint System Administrator will support infrastructure services, operations, and maintenance across multiple enclaves of different classifications with remote administration for server farms located in multiple data centers. The SharePoint SME shall deploy, operate, and maintain SharePoint services, including load balancing, PKI authentication, and claims-based authentication as well as support site setup, permission management, troubleshooting, and service requests for customers as well as content and knowledge managers. This individual will work in a team environment to ensure mission needs are met and ensure functionality of capabilities of customers. This role requires an individual that is technical, customer oriented, and extremely familiar with managing all aspects of SharePoint. This individual should be detail oriented in order to capture customer inquiries appropriately. Role requires excellent oral and written communication skills.

Primary Tasks

• Interacting with site/collection owners to handle service inquiries and problems.
• Provide implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of IT systems.
• Rapidly distinguish isolated user problems from enterprise-wide application/system problems.
• Develop solutions for complex problems, update Knowledge Articles and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to reflect changes to the environment.
• Oversee SharePoint projects to include minor and major version upgrades, routine maintenance, hardware/platform upgrades/migration, and expansion of capabilities to meet emerging requirements.
• Identify methods for direct integration with existing and future Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) technologies.
• Assist users with manual migrations from older SharePoint versions to SharePoint 2019, SharePoint Subscription Edition or SharePoint Online.
• Manage permissions of new and existing site collections and their associated lists, items etc.
• Manage access to O365/M365 applications based on SharePoint technology such as Microsoft Teams, Microsoft OneDrive, and SharePoint Online.
• Conduct searches and purges of data from operational systems as required by cyber security, legal, compliance, FOIA, and other legitimate sources.
• Manage asset library, risk database, and business rhythm calendar (Leidos best practice) to enhance situational awareness for stakeholders.
• Coordinate with customers and stakeholders to collect data, conduct analysis, develop, and implement solutions associated with incident tickets and requirements.
• Provide follow-up reports (technical findings, feedback, resolution steps taken, After Action Report (AAR) etc.) for Root Cause Analysis, engineering technical assessment, and process improvement initiatives.
• Maintain, develop, and enrich service and server monitoring using SolarWinds, Science Logic, PowerShell or other technologies to ensure full visibility into health and performance of the service offering.
• Support customer requirements in a 24/7/365 mission environment.
• Update operations and maintenance documentation for 24/7/365 IT Operations Center personnel to assist with after-hours triage and troubleshooting of common SharePoint problems.

Basic Qualifications

• Extensive experience with SharePoint technologies to include SharePoint 2016, 2019, Subscription Edition (SPSE) and SharePoint Online.
• Extensive experience with configuring, installing, and securing SharePoint systems.
• Familiarity with managing SQL clusters in support of SharePoint farms.
• Experience with patch maintenance for SQL clusters and SharePoint farms.
• Experience with PKI authentication and claims-based authentication.
• Experience with utilizing load balancers such as F5 BigIP Load Traffic Manager or Citrix NetScaler.
• Experience managing M365/O365 cloud offerings such as Microsoft Teams, Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint Online.
• Experience with routine maintenance processes and willingness to conduct scheduled maintenance during approved maintenance windows.
• Experience with Change Management fundamentals to ensure proper planning, execution, and documentation of changes to the environment.
• Experience with Tier 2 & Tier 3 system administration.
• Experience troubleshooting issues in a growing environment.
• Experience with log reviews, incident analysis, and identification of issue trends/problem analysis.
• Effective time management skills - Able to prioritize efforts such as major projects, documentation review/update, incident ticket resolution and customer requests.
• Strong oral and written communications skills – Able to effectively communicate with program and government leadership for major service outages, degradation and project status.
• Track record of working effectively within a team, and support to peers toward improved processes and results.
• Experience with IT Service Management (ITSM) ticketing systems such as ServiceNow.
• Clearance Due to the nature of the government contracts we support, US Citizenship is required.
• TS/SCI with Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph (or Full Scope Poly) required for position or TS/SCI and willingness to obtain a poly.

Education

• Candidate must have a Bachelor's degree with 12 years of relevant experience, Master’s degree with 10 years, Associate's with 14 years, or High School Diploma with 16 years.

Required Certifications

• Candidate must, at a minimum, meet DoDM 8140.03 (previously DoD 8570) – IT System Admin Intermediate certification requirements (Cloud+, GICSP, SSCP, Security+ CE, GSEC, or higher)
• No industry certifications are required for this position, though a relevant certification in VMware, Windows Server Administration or similar technology is beneficial.

Desired Certifications

• Familiarity with using Nintex, InfoPath, and/or PowerBI platforms for creating and managing workflows.
• Experience configuring and managing SPPatchify for patch maintenance of large SharePoint farms.
• Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert or equivalent certification related to SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive and their administration.

Pay and Benefits

Pay Range: Pay Range $116,350.00 - $210,325.00 The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary.

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers.

Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement.

Securing Your Data

Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information at any part of the employment application process. And Leidos will communicate with you only through emails that are sent from a Leidos.com email address. If you receive an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information, please report the email to [e-mail].

Commitment and Diversity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.

If you’re looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We’re not hiring followers. We’re recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We’re already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting: October 28, 2026 For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.