Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Baker Donelson is a professional services firm that is seeking a SharePoint Administrator. The role involves overseeing the administration and management of SharePoint farms, ensuring system functionality, security, and performance, as well as automating tasks and collaborating with various teams.
Responsibilities
- Serves as the subject matter expert for all things SharePoint
- Responsible for the overall administration and management of each SharePoint farm
- Monitor the environment and take corrective actions to ensure that platform is operating at peak functionality and performance
- Responsible for the security, integrity and recoverability of data stored in the system
- Work with other groups to ensure that the system is fault and disaster tolerant
- They reduce manual work by automating repetitive tasks
- Installs, configures and maintains multiple SharePoint farms; various service applications such as the Search Service and User Profile service and third-party components that integrate with SharePoint
- Maintains the servers comprising each farm
- Applies SharePoint Cumulative Updates (CUs) monthly
- Responds to issues assigned by the help desk, content administrators or business owners
- Monitors the ULS, IIS and event logs to investigate and resolve issues
- Monitors performance counter metrics to identify system bottlenecks and fine-tune application performance
- Assists the business owners as they test new features in the testing environment
- Deploys new features to the production environment
- Assigns new work (bugs and enhancements) to the development team backlog
- Addresses questions and concerns from the business owners about SharePoint functionality
- Automates repetitive manual tasks using scripting technologies such as PowerShell
- Keeps apprised of updates and makes sure that they are communicated to the business owners
- Works with the DBA to make sure that data integrity is maintained, and that data is backed up and recoverable
- Works with the Infrastructure team to ensure that the system is fault and disaster tolerant
- Works with the Development team to understand and maintain custom functionality
- Works with third party vendors to resolve issues and implement new functionality
- Assists other administrators in the support of various other enterprise applications
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related field
- Minimum 3 years of experience working in SharePoint environments
- Expert knowledge of SharePoint 2013/2016, including its various components
- Expert knowledge of using scripting technologies such as PowerShell to automate tasks and monitor the system
- Knowledge of Microsoft365 concepts and components
- Expert understanding of how SharePoint can be leveraged to meet business needs
- Expert understanding of web-based technologies such as IIS, ASP.NET, HTML and CSS
- Must provide minimum authorization to work in the United States
- Familiarity with SharePoint Online
- Familiarity with SharePoint's Client-Side Object Model (CSOM)
- Familiarity with SQL Server database maintenance, including query execution using T-SQL
- Familiarity with the Windows Server operating system
- Familiarity with one or more third party products that integrate with SharePoint
- Familiarity with load balancing and disaster recovery concepts
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