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Sharepoint Administrator Jobs in Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa at BICRM
Title: Sharepoint Administrator
Company: BICRM
Location: Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
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We are looking for a highly experienced SharePoint Administrator / Application Technical Specialist to join a large Financial Services environment.
The primary purpose of this position is to support, maintain and enhance critical Business Solutions and Technology applications, ensuring high levels of system availability, application health, security and optimal performance.
The role has a particularly strong focus on the administration, maintenance, troubleshooting and optimisation of SharePoint on-premises environments, including SharePoint Subscription Edition.
If you have extensive hands-on SharePoint on-prem administration experience and are comfortable operating in a complex, highly governed enterprise environment, we would like to hear from you.
Qualifications and Experience Required
- A Degree (NQF Level 7) in one of the following Computer Science, Information Management
- Information Technology Or an equivalent relevant qualification Certification
- A SharePoint on-premises Administration Certification.
- A minimum of 8 years’ experience in SharePoint on-premises administration.
- Experience setting up SharePoint on-prem environments.
- Experience maintaining SharePoint on-prem environments.
- Experience upgrading SharePoint on-prem environments.
- Extensive hands-on experience troubleshooting SharePoint on-prem issues.
- Solid knowledge of Azure infrastructure, including Data Gateway Service.
- Solid knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server, IIS, TCP/IP, VLAN, Security Experience
- Experience remediating vulnerabilities identified during security scans.
Key Responsibilities
As the SharePoint Administrator / Application Technical Specialist, you will be responsible for the ongoing health, stability, security and performance of the assigned enterprise applications.
- Administer and maintain SharePoint on-premises environments.
- Support SharePoint Subscription Edition.
- Set up, configure, maintain and upgrade SharePoint on-prem environments.
- Configure application infrastructure to ensure optimal performance.
- Install and enable new application features and functionality.
- Maintain enterprise applications by implementing corrective measures, including; patches, upgrades, bug fixes, application updates, proactively monitor application upgrades, new product releases and product replacements that may impact the supported application landscape.
- Investigating and resolving medium-to-high complexity technical issues.
- Troubleshooting complex SharePoint on-premises issues.
- Identifying root causes of application and infrastructure issues.
- Implementing corrective and preventative actions.
- Ensuring that supported applications remain stable, available and performant.
- Proactively manage business and stakeholder relationships relating to application support.
- Engage users, developers and other stakeholders during troubleshooting and support activities.
- Keep abreast of relevant technology developments and industry best practices.
- Apply relevant new technologies and practices where appropriate.
- Transfer technical knowledge of the environment to the system development team.
Why Consider This Opportunity?
- Take ownership of a complex enterprise SharePoint on-premises environment.
- Work with SharePoint Subscription Edition and modern Microsoft infrastructure technologies.
- Operate within a major Financial Services technology environment.
- Work across application administration, infrastructure, security, performance and business continuity.
- Engage directly with developers, business users, senior stakeholders and technical teams.