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SharePoint Farm Administrator

Washington, DC
11/7/2019

Position Description

​The SharePoint Administrator will be part of team responsible for effectively administering and managing their SharePoint environment to enable utilization of its best-of-breed platform and collaboration capabilities to support over 7,000 users. The SharePoint Admin will configure SharePoint and install patch updates in three environments - Development, User Acceptance Testing, and Production. They will work as part of a team using Agile methodologies to document, test, implement, and support activities associated with SharePoint 2016. The SharePoint Administrator should understand the current version, future enhancements, service packs/updates and upgrades of SharePoint, as well as best practices for maintaining the environments. While the candidate will not be responsible for directly managing the SQL instance, they should be familiar with the Windows Server OS and SQL Server capabilities. Daily duties will include the following:

  • Administering and maintaining SharePoint Dev, Test, and Production environments
  • Making technical recommendations in the area of performance improvements and availability such as redundancy architecture and load balancing
  • Managing all updates, patches, bug fixes, and other deployments to the applications and the SharePoint Farm
  • Working hand in hand with developers to create sites/lists and implement custom solutions for critical business needs, utilizing skills with web parts and work flows
  • Collaborating with customers and business analysts to design SharePoint solutions that satisfy business requirements
  • Reviewing system resources, including ULS and Windows logs, for system health concerns
  • Monitoring permissions and audit logs for governance violations
  • Developing and implementing critical SharePoint collaboration solutions and sites
  • Troubleshooting SharePoint application issues
  • Assisting with site content management as requested

Required Skills

  • At least 5 years of general IT experience
  • At least 4 years of experience as a SharePoint Administrator

At least 4 years of experience with the following:

  • Administering, developing and maintaining SharePoint 2016 portal sites.
  • Investigating and resolving SharePoint performance issues, such as front end web server performance, indexing performance, and SQL
  • Troubleshooting SharePoint configuration and web part issue (should have knowledge of techniques to do this)
  • Maintaining and configuring Windows Server and IIS
  • Configuring and tuning SharePoint Enterprise Search
  • Creating and updating PowerShell scripts
  • Establishing workflows within the SharePoint environment
  • Using JavaScript, HTML, and other Microsoft-based technologies is a plus
  • Troubleshooting ULS log errors

Possess knowledge/understanding of the following:

  • Business workflows (knowledge) and capabilities of SharePoint, Windows SharePoint Services, and SharePoint Designer/Visual Studio (in depth understanding)
  • Windows networking and authentication (knowledge)
  • Firewalls, ports, certificates and general system security concepts (understanding)
  • SharePoint security and user permissions (understanding)

Desirable Skills

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Engineering or Social Science.
  • At least 2 years of experience with SharePoint 2016
  • Federal Government consulting experience
  • Active Public Trust clearance
  • Microsoft SharePoint certifications

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Our Benefits

  • Major Medical, Dental, Vision (HMO or POS)
  • Short, Long-Term Disability Coverage
  • Life and AD&D Insurance​
  • 401(k) with Matching Contributions
  • Flex Spending Account
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Employee Referral Bonuses
  • Optional Supplemental Life, AD&D
  • 10 Paid Holidays Per Year​
  • Paid Time Off
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Merit Bonuses​

What Makes us Procentrix

We operate on the principle of “mutual respect” and recognize that at the core of every successful company are people and when those people are challenged, encouraged and respected, they create the framework within which creativity and innovation thrives.

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