Senior Workplace Engineer

Senior Workplace Engineer

Rate: £330 a day

IR35: Inside

Location: Leeds, Hybrid - 60% Office 40% Home

Duration: 6 Months initially

Role Overview:

Senior Modern Workplace Engineers are responsible for the design, development, implementation, ongoing support and maintenance of Microsoft 365, Azure and limited on premise infrastructure (networking, printing and meeting rooms) and associated systems. The Senior Modern Workplace engineer will also be responsible contributing to the teams capability to provide subject matter expert services and guidance to other teams across the business and helping to mentor junior members of the IT Support team.

Key Responsibilities

The role focuses on the maintenance of the Microsoft 365 and Azure Infrastructure and associated systems whilst also helping the Modern Workplace Engineering team to develop and implement new features and capabilities.

Responsibilities of the team include:

• Device, Application & Data Management (Intune & endpoint security, SharePoint, OneDrive and Jamf)
• Collaboration & Unified Comms (Teams, PSTN in Teams, Exchange)
• Office Engineering (Telemetry, Add On management & governance)
• MS365 Product Suite (Previously Office 365 - Including but not limited to MS Teams, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business)
• Process Automation, scripting / coding (Including but not limited to PowerShell, PowerApps, GraphAPI, Python)
• Entra ID & Access Mgt
• Defender XDR (Endpoint, Office 365, Cloud Apps)
• Cloud (SaaS, PaaS, IoT)
• Networks (WAN, LAN and WiFi)
• Contribute to the design and development of solutions
• Contribute to the design of new solutions in conjunction with the Technology Architects, supporting through appropriate governance and approval channels

Your skills and experience:

• The successful candidate will possess a strong background and experience of designing, building, managing and troubleshooting infrastructure, cloud based solutions and SaaS applications whilst applying an in-depth understanding of best practices and best security practices. As well as a mix of experience and skills in the following areas:
• Collaboration & Unified Comms (Voice, Video, SharePoint, Email)
• MS365 Product Suite (Previously Office 365 - Including but not limited to MS Teams, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business)
• Device, Application & Data Management (Intune, Windows 11 Management)
• Office Engineering (Telemetry, Add On management & governance)
• MS365 Security Tooling
• Entra ID
• Experience with Networking technologies including WAN, LAN and WiFi
• Process Automation, scripting / coding (Including but not limited to PowerShell, GraphAPI, Python)
• Experience with the Jira and Confluence toolsets
• A customer focussed ethos to ensure customers receive the service required