This role holds as global architect for Microsoft technologies to ensure end-user productivity services are designed, planned, and deployed in-line with standards and customer expectations and performs a support to delivery of services.
Responsibilities
- Architecture: The design, planning, and deployment secure, and sustainable infrastructure. Detect areas for improvement and architect solutions.
- Planning and Analysis Services: Performs assessments for the implementation of new technologies meet requirements, and cost objectives.
- Requirements Definition Services: Enable development of appropriate documentation. Application of studies to determine infrastructure requirements.
- Support and management:
- Microsoft 365
- Active Directory & associated systems
- ADFS, EntraID (AzureAD), AD Certificate Services
- Azure Services - Conditional Access, Enterprise Application, AppProxy, MCAS/MDCA
- Messaging (Exchange, messaging routing, mail Hygiene)
- System Management (including Intune, SCCM)
- Microsoft Teams Collaboration and Unified Communications
- Microsoft Compliance and Security Center
- OneDrive, SharePoint Online
- Microsoft security & assurance services such as MIP, DLP & eDiscovery.
- Microsoft PowerPlatform and associated applications & services.
- Clustering and SQL server beneficial
- Systems Management services such as InTune, SCCM & SCOM
- Network Break & Inspect Devices
- Firewalls and Load Balancers
Requirements
- 7+ years' Architecture experience Designing, Implementing, Configuring, Testing, Migrating & Security Exchange (on-premises/online) & Exchange Hybrid Solutions.
- Provides input to design and solutions to operational and production re-occurring problems.
- Strong written, presentation and interpersonal skills
- Understands IT governance and project management methodologies such as ITIL and Prince2.
- Manages technical projects through their lifecycle from inception to completion.
- Experience of agile project management methodologies beneficial.
- Understanding & Experience on handling Acquisitions & Divestiture.
- Previous experience in designing and deploying Azure and other VDI / remote access solutions.
- Must have Architectural Proficiency with integrating Microsoft and non-Microsoft Mobile Device/Mobile Application Management & Unified Endpoint Management solutions with Exchange/Office 365 as well as other third-party email aware apps.
- Advanced English.