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SharePoint Administrator

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Package Description

What we offer if you join our amazing team:

• Competitive Salary 

• Corporate Benefits Package 

• Company events

 

Job Introduction

We have an exciting (and challenging) opening for a SharePoint Administrator in Cologne

Dynamic, Energetic, Entrepreneurial, Highly Motivated, Resilient … If this describes you then we would love to hear from you :) Come and join talented diverse Serco team at EASA based in Cologne, Germany. 

Discover the offer below and click on ‘Apply’ if you know that your skillset and talents are a suitable match for this opportunity.

  • Serco – The employer of choice for a career within the Space Sector.

Serco are a trusted provider of services to National Space Agencies and the European Space Agency (ESA), we have over 40 years’ experience supporting the space sector and providing services for all stages of our customer’s space missions.

  • Join our community of space specialists across Europe

We are proud to support the European institutional Space landscape: Serco boasts an extensive network of Space professionals located at our offices in Darmstadt, Noordwijk, Frascati, Paris and Madrid, all within close proximity of our two largest space sector customers, European Space Agency/European Space Operations Centre (ESA/ESOC) and European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT).

  • Supporting Women in Aerospace

Diversity and Inclusion is extremely important to us. Supporting women's opportunities, development and visibility in the space sector is key and that is why we are proud members and supporters of Women in Aerospace Europe, a dynamic and global network supporting women's careers in Aerospace.

Women in Aerospace Europe (WIA-E) – Supporting women in STEM (wia-europe.org)

 

Main Responsibilities

As SharePoint Administrator you will concentrate your activities on the following:

  • Write and execute PowerShell scripting
  • Support High Availability farms
  • Monitor and Administer farm’s SQL Servers
  • Support Managed Metadata service architecture and SharePoint Enterprise Search functionality
  • Support incident and problem management in accordance to SLAs and the procedures in place
  • Troubleshooting on a regular basis
  • Provide support for developers or architects upon request
  • Support the disaster recovery plan
  • Support the hardening of SP applications
  • Document infrastructure changes/implementations
  • Perform continuous performance optimisation of SP farm
  • Support SharePoint migrations

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Strong understanding of SharePoint Portals and related technologies in the Microsoft stack
  • Strong knowledge of the setup, monitoring, and administration of a SharePoint 2016 or later on-prem Farm environment
  • Extensive experience in SharePoint 2016 and higher
  • Experience in SharePoint migrations
  • Experience working with SQL Server
  • Experience working in Azure DevOps Server (former TFS) will be considered a plus
  • Experience in High Availability(HA) farms
  • Experience Managed Metadata service architecture and SharePoint Enterprise Search functionality
  • Strong experience in PowerShell scripting (execution and writing) for automation

Successful Candidate

Do you think you are the person we are looking for? See below what experience or knowledge you should bring:

COMPETENCIES & EXPERIENCE

Required:

  • SharePoint 2016 or higher
  • SharePoint 2016 App Model or higher
  • SQL server Administration on HA environments
  • Programming knowledge in PowerShell Scripting
  • Solid knowledge of Active Directory

​Desirable:

  • Programming knowledge in .NET, C#
  • Experience in implementation of ITIL Best Practices
  • Rapid self-starting capability and team player
  • Open-minded and committed to continuous learning
  • Experience with Nintex
  • Experience with ShareGate
  • Experience in ZeroTrust security model

Working Language

  • The working language is English.

 

About the Company

Why should you join Serco ?

At Serco not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play.

Meaningful and vital work - You’ll contribute to methodologically intercepting challenges whilst achievements will also be recognised and celebrated.

A world of opportunity - You’ll be wholeheartedly supported with development and career progression

Great people - You’ll become an integral member of a well-defined and supportive team who believe passionately in the value of our work.

What we offer

  • Chance to contribute to innovation in the public services sector
  • A company passionate about diversity and inclusion
  • Permanent employment with comprehensive Serco Benefits package.

About Serco

At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play when managing complex public services.  

We are a team of 60,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world, we are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.

By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks – SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging. 

Important

Any offer of employment is contingent upon you providing documents to verify your identity and employment eligibility, as required by law.

Applicants are reminded that they will be requested to produce such documentation during the recruitment process.

Please contact a member of the recruitment team if you require further details of acceptable types of documentation required for verification of identity and work authorization. 

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