Senior SharePoint Administrator (Lead)

Roles & Responsibilities

Enterprise SharePoint Platform Administration

• Lead administration and support of large-scale enterprise SharePoint farms consisting of 50+ servers across Development, QA, DR, and Production environments.
• Design, implement, and maintain high availability SharePoint environments.
• Perform platform capacity planning, farm optimization, and lifecycle management.
• Define and enforce operational standards and best practices.

SharePoint Architecture & Governance

• Provide technical leadership for SharePoint platform architecture and roadmap.
• Establish governance frameworks covering:
• Site lifecycle management
• Security governance
• Content management
• Capacity management
• Compliance requirements
• Conduct architecture reviews and platform assessments.
• Drive modernization and migration strategies.

SharePoint Online & Hybrid Environments

• Manage and support hybrid SharePoint environments.
• Lead SharePoint Online adoption initiatives.
• Integrate SharePoint with Microsoft 365 services including:
• Teams
• OneDrive
• Power Platform
• Microsoft Search
• Entra ID

Migration Leadership

• Lead enterprise migration projects from:
• SharePoint 2013/2016/2019
• Legacy collaboration platforms
• File shares
• Develop migration strategies, governance controls, and validation processes.
• Perform migration assessments using ShareGate or AvePoint tools.

Operational Support & Incident Management

• Serve as escalation point for critical P1 and P2 incidents.
• Lead root cause analysis sessions and implement preventive measures.
• Collaborate with Microsoft and vendor support teams during critical outages.
• Drive continuous service improvement initiatives.

Automation & Innovation

• Design and implement advanced PowerShell automation solutions.
• Automate:
• Health checks
• User access reviews
• Configuration validation
• Backup verification
• Capacity monitoring
• Reporting activities
• Identify opportunities for AI-driven and automated operational improvements.

Performance Optimization

• Monitor and optimize SharePoint performance.
• Analyze:
• ULS Logs
• IIS Logs
• SQL Performance Metrics
• Windows Event Logs
• Search Performance
• Perform proactive capacity and growth planning.

Security & Compliance

• Implement enterprise security best practices.
• Manage:
• Authentication and authorization
• SSL certificates
• Service accounts
• Security hardening
• Vulnerability remediation
• Support audit and compliance initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with corporate security policies and regulatory requirements.

Backup, Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

• Own SharePoint disaster recovery planning and testing.
• Design and maintain backup and restore strategies.
• Conduct periodic DR drills and recovery validations.
• Ensure RPO and RTO targets are met.

Release & Deployment Management

• Lead deployment and upgrade activities.
• Deploy:
• Custom SharePoint Solutions
• Third-party packages
• Cumulative Updates
• Security Patches
• Subscription Edition Feature Releases
• Establish deployment and rollback procedures.

Leadership & Mentoring

• Mentor SharePoint administrators and L2/L3 engineers.
• Conduct technical knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Support recruitment and technical evaluation activities.
• Define operational KPIs and service improvement plans.

Educational qualification

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline.

Experience

10+ Years of experience with at least 5+ Years of experience in Onpremise SharePoint Administration work

Mandatory/requires Skills

SharePoint Server 2019

• SharePoint Subscription Edition
• SharePoint Online / Microsoft 365
• PowerShell Scripting and Automation
• ShareGate or AvePoint Migration Tool
• IIS Administration
• Windows Server Administration
• SQL Server (SharePoint backend administration)
• Active Directory / Entra ID Integration
• SharePoint Governance and Security
• Incident, Problem, and Change Management
• ServiceNow, Remedy, Jira, or equivalent ticketing systems

Preferred Skills

Power Platform (Power Automate, Power Apps)

• Azure Administration
• Microsoft Purview
• SCOM, Splunk, Azure Monitor, AppDynamics
• Hybrid SharePoint Architecture
• Microsoft Graph APIs
• DevOps CI/CD for SharePoint Deployments
• ITIL Framework

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior SharePoint Administrator to lead the administration, governance, modernization, and support of large-scale enterprise SharePoint environments. The ideal candidate will possess deep experti