M365/SharePoint Administrator L3

Position: M365/SharePoint Administrator L3

Location: Jersey City NJ

Note: Client is not willing to sponsor any visa.

Job responsibilitiesWorking experience in On-premises Exchange 2019 / SE and M365 workloads (EXO, SPO, Teams & one Drive).

Working experience in Exchange 2019 HA / Database Availability Group

Working experience in Hybrid Mail flow, Edge Servers, Security and exchange patching

Knowledge of Client connectivity

Proficiency in scripting / PowerShell.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills.10+ years experience in Exchange 2019 / 2016 On-premises and M365 Exchange, Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint

Any Certification on M365 / Exchange / SharePoint will be an added advantage.

Experience & Technical Requirements

Core ExperienceMinimum 10+ years of handson experience administering Microsoft SharePoint Server (onpremise) environments, with strong focus on SharePoint Server 2019.

Proven experience supporting large, enterprisescale SharePoint farms (single/multifarm, multitier architecture).

Experience operating SharePoint in production environments with strict availability, security, and changemanagement controls.

SharePoint Administration & OperationsStrong handson expertise in:

SharePoint farm administration, including Central Administration and service applications

Site collections, sites, lists, libraries, and templates

Permissions management (AD groups, SharePoint groups, inheritance, leastprivilege models)

User Profile Service (UPS) configuration, synchronization, and troubleshooting

Managed Metadata Service, Search Service, Secure Store, State Service, and other core service applications

Experience handling user access issues, permission corruption, profile resets, and accessdenied scenarios.

Patching, Maintenance & UpgradesHandson experience with

SharePoint Server 2019 patching (Cumulative Updates / Security Updates)

Prepatch validation, patch sequencing, and postpatch health checks

Coordinating patching with SQL Server and Windows Server updates

Troubleshooting postpatch issues (search failures, timer jobs, service outages).

Automation & PowerShellStrong handson experience using SharePoint Management Shell / PowerShell, including:

Farm health checks

Bulk site and permission operations

Service application administration

Scripted backup, restore, and cleanup tasks

Ability to write, modify, and maintain custom PowerShell scripts for operational automation.

Backup, Restore & DRProven experience with

Farmlevel, web application, and site collection backups and restores

SQLlevel and SharePoint native backup/restore strategies

Supporting DR testing and recovery activities

Troubleshooting restore failures and content database issues.

IIS, Windows & SQL ServerStrong working knowledge of

IIS administration for SharePoint (application pools, bindings, certificates, authentication settings)

Windows Server administration related to SharePoint farms

SQL Server used by SharePoint

Content databases, service application databases

Basic performance troubleshooting (locks, growth, capacity planning)

Coordinating with DBAs on maintenance and failovers

Ability to analyze ULS logs, IIS logs, Event Viewer, and SQL errors for root cause analysis.

Monitoring & TroubleshootingExperience supporting SharePoint incidents and outages, including:

Performance degradation

Search and crawl failures

Authentication and access issues

Timer job and service failures

Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools (APM, synthetic monitoring, log aggregation such as Splunk is a plus).

Security & ComplianceExperience implementing and supporting

SharePoint security baselines and hardening standards

Permission reviews, audits, and remediation

Handling audit or compliancedriven requests related to SharePoint data access

Understanding of enterprise change control and incident management processes.

Nice to Have (Optional / Preferred)Experience with SharePoint Server Subscription Edition or upgrade planning

Exposure to SharePoint Online / Hybrid environments

Experience supporting migration projects from SharePoint 2019 to SharePoint Online

Ability to document operational runbooks and standard operating procedures (SOPs).