MOSS Exchange - SharePoint Administrator

Main job purpose:

The person in this role will have the main responsibility for the SharePoint infrastructure and an active role with other colleagues in the management of the infrastructure of  Microsoft Exchange.   

A second phase of SharePoint expansion/roll out is envisaged in the near future.  It is expected that the post holder will play a leading role in scoping the expansion from a technical perspective.

Technical expertise

• Systems administration of Windows servers and MOSS, giving full attention to best practice.
• Taking an active part in the systems administration team for Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory
• Hardware procurement and maintenance planning as required.
• Performing routine audits of systems and software.
• Performing backups and restores.
• Applying operating system updates, patches and configuration changes as well as major upgrades of software and services.
• Installing and configuring new hardware and software.
• Troubleshooting systems and network issues.
• Monitoring vendors? release notes and planning necessary upgrades and patches.
• Installing, configuring and maintaining Windows Server 2008, MOSS 2007, SQL Server 2005 and possibly 2008.
• Point of expertise for SharePoint provision for users and support staff
• Point of expertise for server and database clustering as applied to the SharePoint service.
• Point of expertise in searching, indexing and scaling issues.
• Resolving unassigned help centre issues and answering ad hoc technical queries.
• Attending the Help Centre front desk service on a regular basis.

Essential:

• University degree or equivalent experience in a relevant discipline.
• Proven Windows system administration skills and experience.
• Proven MOSS skills and experience.
• Detailed knowledge of SharePoint deployment issues to large user bases.
• Knowledge and experience of Microsoft clustering and load balancing.
• Database design and management experience with Microsoft SQL Server.
• Excellent knowledge of network fundamentals.
• The ability to develop and enhance expertise in relevant fields.
• Excellent communications skills.

Desirable:

• Development experience (site design, definitions, workflows, web parts) in SharePoint.
• Experience of a multi forest domain Active Directory.
• Virtualisation experience (e.g. VMware, Hyper-V).
• Experience with VPN and other security/authentication technologies and their applicability to SharePoint services.
• Storage Area Networks (SAN) expertise.
• Experience with Windows PowerShell and/or STSADM.
• Microsoft Exchange server management experience.
• Experience with System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) or MOM.
• Good working knowledge of Kerberos.
• Relevant industry technical qualification or experience, e.g. MCTS, MCSE, MCP, etc.
• Some covering of the range of skills and experience addressed by our self evaluation checklist
• The skills and experience to become a successful member of the team as quickly as possible.