Senior SharePoint Administrator
Abile Group, Inc.
- Annapolis Junction, MD
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manages and maintains an organization's SharePoint environment, ensuring it functions effectively for collaboration and document management.
- Collaborates with other IT teams, business users, other SharePoint users, and stakeholders to understand their needs and provide effective SharePoint solutions.
- Configures, customizes, and troubleshoots the platform, manages user permissions, and develops workflows.
- Ensures security, performance, and compliance within the SharePoint environment, including the latest updates, patches, and service packs.
- Implements and maintains security best practices, ensuring compliance with organizational policies and relevant regulations, and monitoring for potential security threats.
- Installs, configures, and maintains SharePoint servers, site collections, and other related components.
- Assigns appropriate access rights and permissions to users and groups, ensuring data security and proper collaboration.
- Diagnoses and resolves technical issues related to SharePoint functionality, performance, and user access.
- Monitors SharePoint performance, identifies bottlenecks, and optimizes the system for optimal efficiency.
- Creates, configures, and manages SharePoint sites, including team sites, communication sites, and hub sites.
- Designs, develops, and maintains workflows to automate business processes and improve efficiency.
- Oversees the organization and management of content within SharePoint, including libraries, lists, and workflows.
- Implements and maintains backup and disaster recovery plans to protect SharePoint data and ensure business continuity.
- Required 8140/8570 IAT Level III certification.
- Desired Microsoft 365 Certified: Fundamentals.
- Desired Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert.
- Desired Microsoft Certified: SharePoint Server or equivalent legacy certificates MCITP, MCSE, MCSD, or MCSM certifications.
- Strong knowledge of SharePoint architecture, administration, and configuration, including both on-premises and cloud-based environments.
- Problem-Solving and Troubleshooting: Ability to diagnose and resolve technical issues effectively.
- Scripting: Familiarity with PowerShell scripting for SharePoint, IIS, SQL Server automation, XHTML, CSS, Net, Web Page, and JavaScript.
- IIS: Strong experience with IIS configuration and troubleshooting, including handling SharePoint web applications, SSL certificates, and performance tuning.
- User Support: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to provide technical support to users.
- Security Awareness: Understanding of security best practices and compliance requirements, encryption, and firewalls.
- Workflow Development: Ability to design and implement workflows using SharePoint Designer or other tools.
- Collaboration and Communication: Ability to work effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders.
- Microsoft 365 knowledge: Familiarity with Microsoft 365 and its integration with SharePoint.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Active Directory.
- Databases: familiarity and understanding of Microsoft SQL Server 2016/2019 always-on high availability clustering.