Location: Washington D.C.

Duration: Full time

Job Summary:

The SharePoint System Administrator provides support for the Enterprise SharePoint Environment. Duties includes provisioning, installation/configuration, operation and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure.

They will be responsible to ensure the operational health of the SharePoint environment, including security, availability, performance, interoperability, and reliability.

The System Administrator will suggest, promote, and leverage published standards to minimize environment complexity and ensure compliance.

They will also be required to continually improve operations through routine monitoring of system performance, review of system event and application log files, trend analysis, configuration, incident and problem management processes.

Position Responsibilities/Duties:

Deep knowledge of SharePoint architecture design, especially SP2010 and SP2013

Installation, upgrades, patches, configuration of all SharePoint Services and Windows servers

Managing and monitoring the overall SharePoint Farm health and functionality

Monitoring SharePoint disk space usage through built-in SharePoint reports for each site collection

Managing SharePoint permissions

Analyzing and reporting details surrounding SharePoint usage and activity

Moving/copying sites

Supporting network load balancing needs and ensuring correct operation (NLB)

Regular review of the events and messages reported in Event Viewer and Performance Monitor

Regular review, clean-up, management and configuration of SharePoint accounts and sites

Regularly analyze SharePoint content and storage

Monitoring SharePoint trends (e.g. site usage and growth, disk space usage and growth)

Setting up alerts and enforcing policies

Regularly auditing the SharePoint environment

Identifying and reporting governance violations

Checking for SharePoint patches and cumulative updates

Preferred Skills:

Experience in system administration of enterprise SharePoint environment (multi-server farms) including monitoring and troubleshooting

Experience in MS PowerShell script

Familiarity with troubleshooting using Windows event logs, ULS logs

Understanding and experience working authentication types: SSO (SAML, WS-Fed), NTLM, Kerberos

Strong understanding of infrastructure technologies related to SharePoint: Windows OS, AD, SQL, DNS, load balancing, reverse-proxy, SCOM

Experience with Disaster Recovery

Business intelligence in SharePoint (a plus)

Knowledge of IT and web-based technology concepts

Microsoft Office application suite

Understanding of taxonomy

HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Ability to learn new concepts very quickly

Good communications skills

Formal documentation skills

Team Player

Must be resourceful

Enthusiasm and eagerness to learn is a must

Windows Server components including the registry, file systems, services, and system management tools

Education:

Bachelor's degree or comparable work experience preferred

Microsoft SharePoint certification

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