Job Description :
Job Title: Exchange Admin Lead
Duration: 6+ months contract to hire
Work Location: Harrisburg, PA 17111 (at the Turnpike commission)
Position Description/Responsibilities:
Job Responsibilities:
Client is seeking an experienced MS Exchange Server Administrator/Engineer for a long-term contract with possible hire. This person will lead the Exchange support and administration efforts and serve as the Exchange SME on an Office 365 migration. Focus will not be on Office 365 but supporting the effort on the Exchange front.
Day to day duties include:
Supporting an Office 365 migration as the Exchange SME
Serve as the lead email support engineer to plan, implement and maintain new functionalities to the existing environment.
Support ADFS authentication
Support hundreds of virtual servers
Recommend best practices and improvements and provide documentation
Lead infrastructure projects as needed
Act as lead email administrator
Suggest improvements to environment to raise reliability and availability of the Exchange environment.
Ensure 24x7 availability of service
Install security patches to Exchange Environment
Configure and support MS Active Directory Federation Services
Provide support for SFTP
Configure and issue trust certificates
Provide general 2nd and 3rd level email support
Participate in off-hour support
To be successful in this role, you should have the following skills and experience:
Hands-on experience planning and executing working as an Exchange SME on a Microsoft Office 365 migration of 1000+ mailboxes.
12+ Years installing and administering Microsoft Exchange 2007/2010 with at least 4 of those years in an Exchange 2010 environment in a lead role with a minimum of 1000 users
Experience implementing, configuring, and supporting a highly available Microsoft Exchange 2010 multi-site environment utilizing multiple DAGs across a WAN
Experience with Disaster Recovery planning to maintain a highly available Exchange Environment
Experience in the lead role with the primary responsibility of supporting email
5+ Years Microsoft Active Directory Administration with experience in installing / maintaining: Windows Server 2008 R2 / 2012, DNS, DHCP, WINS, Active Directory Group Policy, Certificates
Experience in configuration, managing all aspects of Office 365
Demonstrated experience in configuring and maintaining Microsoft ADFS
4 year degree or equivalent work experience
Excellent Communication is required.