Description
Do you have experience with Microsoft Exchange and related messaging infrastructure?Would you like to live, work and enjoy the next 6 months or more in Europe?!
1 x Microsoft Exchange Administrator is needed to join an international IT organisation in Valencia, Spain as a contractor for the next six or more months.
The successful candidate will help support, design and implement exchange and messaging platforms as part of a multi-location and multinational team. You will work from the client's new office for a standard 40 hour week with some potential on-call. This is an English-speaking role.
This opportunity is best suited to someone looking for a new challenge in a great European destination and with a fantastic organisation. It is not suitable for someone only interested in income potential.
Your duties will include:
- Work on-site in Valencia, Spain five days a week and provide support when required.
- Work with existing messaging administrators to deliver the Enterprise Communications Service (ECS)
- Collaborate with other teams and contribute to service and system monitoring and alerts.
- Help action migration or upgrade projects.
- Provide standard administrator duties, troubleshooting and general expertise within the Exchange environment.
- Support and maintain the general infrastructure.
- Deal with and action tickets and project tasks to completion.
- Work with others to define and develop documented procedures.
- Participate in the on call roster (for support outside of working hours).
- Perform other activities as required.
Requirements for the role:
- Certification in Exchange 2013, Exchange 2016 and O365.
- 5 years of experience in deploying and supporting large scale Microsoft Exchange installations.
- 2 years of experience in supporting O365 Cloud and Hybrid environments and associated infrastructure.
- Excellent Active Directory skills including support, troubleshooting and administration.
- Migration project experience.
- Strong Scripting skills.
- Preferably experience of other messaging platforms such as BlackBerry, SendMail, PostFix, and messaging security using technologies including PKI, S/MIME, DKIM.
- Management of enterprise messaging anti-spam and anti-virus platforms such as Microsoft Forefront.
- Able to write reports and procedure manuals.
- Excellent English communication skills (written/verbal).
It would be an advantage if the consultant also had experience using System Centre (SCCM, SCOM, SCVMM) in the context of:
- Rapidly and consistently (re)deploying server operating system and applications.
- Monitoring services and system availability, performance and events.
- Managing virtual machine life cycle and resource provisioning.
- Capacity management.