Microsoft System Administrator - Senior

JLAN Solutions has an immediate opening for a Microsoft System Administrator - Senior to support out client the Department of Transportation, DOT. The candidate has to provide the mission-critical networking, operations, maintenance, security, access, capacity, functionality, performance, and availability of Hybrid On-Prem Exchange with Microsoft Enterprise Office 365 (O365) cloud, ATP, EOP, Microsoft Security & Compliance and Azure applications for Productivity, E-mail, and Calendar services; and Microsoft In-Tune with Apple Business Management integration.

Core duties and responsibilities include the following:
•Effective customer relationship and workload/portfolio management with Federal and contractor leadership and end users for delivery of Mail and MDM services.
•Work cooperatively with Federal and Contractor Service Desk, Incident Management Center, Desktop Engineering, Executive Help Engineering, Application Hosting and Infrastructure Engineering teams ensuring successful customer service, troubleshooting, resolution, restoration, provisioning, and availability of Mail and MDM services.
•Manage incident requests, restorations based on urgency, impact, priority, Service Level Agreements including assessment, assignment, queue monitoring, resolution, and closure.
•Ensure timely fulfillment of requested Mail and MDM services for role based access, permissions, specialized communications, distribution groups, availability, and functionality.
•Coordinate change and release of Mail and MDM services, functions, patches, and upgrades in production including design, architecture, configuration, staffing, scheduling, impact / risk analysis, approval, communications, testing, implementation, monitoring and operations.
•Customer service delivery of troubleshooting, issue diagnosis, usability, and utilization of Mail and MDM services through knowledge articles, training, and demonstration.
•Follow critical incident, event, problem, configuration and change management to troubleshoot and restore services caused by outages, and defects.
•Troubleshoot, root cause analysis, and apply workarounds and resolutions with IT Application Hosting and Infrastructure teams and third-party product vendors.
•Assess security vulnerabilities and incidents, and devise with other team members to implement patch, upgrades, and E-mail blocking remediation reducing threats and risks.
•Assess and report performance, access, licensing, capacity, and recommend solutions.
•Participate in 24/7 rotation of On-Call support.
•Manage, and report on Daily Operations driving deliverables, managing expectations, communications, risk management, and reporting to all stakeholders.
•Work with server, network, database, and storage administrators for routine operations.
•Participate in Disaster Recovery, documentation, and testing.
•Create, update and maintain designs, architectures, data profiles, licenses, support agreements, standard operating procedures, work instructions, and knowledge articles.
•Routinely and effectively communicate through multiple channels and stakeholders.
•Be a highly cohesive team member and a change agent while serving as a consultant.

Preferred skills and qualifications:
•Management of daily IT applications operations including time/attendance, workload management, training, mentoring, reporting, communications, and performance.
•Customer relationship and workload/portfolio management with clients and end users.
•Coordinated engineering projects, tasks, and troubleshooting across multiple teams.
•Proven design, configuration, integration, testing, release, maintenance, and support of Microsoft O365 cloud, Exchange 2013, Azure, Office suite, and Outlook applications and One Drive for Business & Microsoft Security & Compliance.
•Proven design, configuration, testing, release, maintenance, and support of Microsoft In Tune, with Apple Business Manager integration
•Must have a minimum of 10 years of experience supporting enterprise messaging services.
•Must be certified in Microsoft O365 or equivalent.

SALARY: Negotiable depending on experience and education level. JLAN offers a full benefits package with vision, health, dental as well as a 401k match and life insurance

JLAN Solutions is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status or physical impairment