Sr. Office 365 Engineer

ROLE TITLE

Senior Office 365 Engineer

ROLE LOCATION(S)

Onshore - London England United Kingdom

UNIT

DC Engineering

ROLE SUMMARY

The Senior Office 365 Engineer will be responsible for the overall execution and technical implementation of Office 365. Responsibilities include management of all Office 365 services including Teams SharePoint Online OneDrive and Exchange Online as well as tenant administration. This role requires Office 365 subject matter expertise across all features and services with vast experience in email administration. Successful candidates must have hands-on design and implementation experience around the major dependencies of Microsoft 365 solutions.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Engineer and implement Microsoft Office 365 capabilities as the company expands.
• Provide tier 3 support and management of the end-to-end Microsoft Office 365 environment.
• Ensure all production changes comply with lifecycle methodology and risk/change management guidelines.
• Provide technical mentoring to other team members and actively participate in architecture reviews and strategic development activities.
• Design implement and support secure Microsoft 365 and Azure solutions aligned with business and compliance requirements.
• Act as an escalation point for complex messaging identity and collaboration issues.
• Partner with application security and infrastructure teams to deliver integrated cloud solutions.
• Contribute to documentation operational standards and continuous service improvement initiative.

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS

• 5 years of equivalent work experience.
• Hands-on experience engineering and administering Microsoft Office 365 (Exchange Online Outlook Office OneDrive SharePoint Online Microsoft Power Platform Azure Scripting Active Directory Archiving Services).
• Strong experience managing cloud environments (Azure AWS GCP) including security groups resource groups load balancers storage backup & recovery and networking.
• Experience configuring Azure resources such as Virtual WAN Application Gateway Route Tables and Azure Policy.
• Proficiency with PowerShell and C# to create automation and runbooks (e.g. System Center Orchestrator).
• Experience with Azure DevOps including CI/CD pipelines service connections and self-hosted agents.
• Experience deploying Azure resources using Infrastructure as Code (ARM templates Bicep Terraform).
• Experience configuring private endpoints and private DNS zones at scale.
• Working knowledge of version control systems especially Git and GitHub.
• Experience with Office 365 User license and group management.
• Familiarity with security components specific to Azure Information Protection (AIP) Data Leakage Prevention (DLP) Advanced eDiscovery and Conditional Access capabilities.
• Exposure to other infrastructure areas including Active Directory VMware Storage Backup & Recovery SQL Server Azure Cloud Services etc.
• Strong hands-on technical skills an analytical problem-solving mindset delivery focus and client orientation are all critical for this role.
• Extensive experience managing enterprise-scale Microsoft 365 and hybrid cloud environments ensuring reliability security and scalability.
• Proven expertise in supporting complex multi-tenant or global environments.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement large-scale complex technology solutions.

GENERAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong listening and analytical questioning skills combined with the ability to interact confidently with clients to establish what the problem is and explain the solution.
• Hands-on experience in troubleshooting and problem management.
• Customer-focused with strong attention to detail.
• Able to expand knowledge and experience committed to continuous learning.
• Strong experience with Microsoft Windows including Active Directory.
• Strong experience in Microsoft Exchange 2016 or later and Office 365. Must be able to act as 3rd tier support for messaging-related escalated issues.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a delivery-focused mindset.
• Ability to operate independently in fast-paced enterprise environments.
• Skilled in operating monitoring maintaining and enhancing critical IT systems.
• Strong engineering capabilities with a forward-thinking approach to technology innovation.
• Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration with stakeholders and teams.

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field preferred.
• Microsoft Office 365 technical certifications are preferred.
• Relevant Azure or DevOps certifications are a plus.