Senior Microsoft 365 and Azure Infrastructure Consultant

A major federal public sector organization runs a Microsoft collaboration and messaging platform for its entire workforce, with an IT service team that designs, delivers and supports it. The mandate is to hold and evolve the Microsoft 365, Azure and identity infrastructure underneath it, during a temporary absence within the team.

What defines the mandate

• An engineering and operations role, within a multidisciplinary team spread across several regional offices, under the direction of the IT engineering manager.
• Hybrid work from home, using equipment provided by the client. The National Capital Region remains the anchor point of the mandate.
• Roughly seven months, full time, starting as soon as possible.

The scope

• Day to day administration of Microsoft 365, Exchange in hybrid configuration, Azure, Microsoft Entra ID and Active Directory, across cloud, hybrid and on-premises services.
• The integrations between messaging, identity and on-premises systems: identity synchronization, authentication, role-based access control, just-in-time privileged access.
• Monitoring the availability, capacity, performance and health of the services, and investigating complex incidents and service degradation.
• Planning, testing and implementing approved changes, upgrades and migrations, within an established change-management process.
• Script-based automation of administration, configuration, monitoring and reporting.
• The engineering and operational documentation that keeps the platform alive: designs, configuration records, procedures, troubleshooting guides, knowledge articles.
• Advice to technical teams and stakeholders, and knowledge transfer to the client's own personnel.

What is required

• Five years of experience, gained in the last seven, administering and supporting Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Exchange in a very large organization.
• Three years, in the last five, configuring, administering and troubleshooting Microsoft Azure infrastructure services.
• Five years, in the last seven, administering Microsoft Entra ID and Active Directory in a hybrid identity environment, including conditional access and privileged access management.
• Three years, in the last five, of script-based automation of those platforms, with work that can be named.
• Operational support of at least two enterprise Microsoft environments, each over a period of at least six months.
• At least two active Microsoft certifications, among those covering Azure administration, Microsoft 365 administration, identity and access, solutions architecture, cybersecurity architecture or messaging administration.
• Dated mandates, showing the role held, the period and the environment.
• Professional English, spoken and written.

What sets an application apart

• Experience of environments where messaging is a critical service at very large scale.
• Familiarity with government environments and the security frameworks that apply there.

The process

• Screening on the form answers and on the resume.
• An interview with the client.
• Two professional references.
• Questions: staffing@intelliscient.com

Skills sought

• Microsoft 365
• Exchange Online
• Exchange Server
• Microsoft Azure
• Microsoft Entra ID
• Active Directory
• Entra Connect Sync
• Conditional Access
• Privileged Identity Management
• RBAC
• PowerShell
• Microsoft Graph
• Azure Monitor
• Log Analytics
• Azure Policy
• Azure Backup