SharePoint Solution Engineer
Liberty Corner, NJ

Job Description

Job Description

Everest Global Services, a member of Everest Re Group, Ltd., is seeking a SharePoint Solutions Engineer for their headquarters in Liberty Corner, New Jersey.

The incumbent will join our Digital Workplace Engineering Team and play a crucial role in the infrastructure and solution lifecycle. The entails establishing new and maintaining existing multi-farm hybrid SharePoint environments, responding to feature and configuration requests, designing solutions and envisioning follow up work.

The Solution Engineer will also play an integral role in the design, development, customization and integration efforts of solutions involving Collaboration Portals, Content Management and Business Process improvements leveraging SharePoint within the Microsoft Office 365 platform, partnering with business users; providing guidance and support in implementing solutions using the entire Office 365 collaboration toolset supplemented by third-party products.

Responsibilities include but are not limited:

* In-depth knowledge of SharePoint architecture design, SP2013 /SP2016 and O365
* Designing, deploying and performing the overall daily administration of enterprise-scale collaboration infrastructure based on shared services hybrid architecture supporting on-premises and cloud solutions
* Execution of SharePoint on-premise and online (Office 365) service delivery with stability and high availability to ensure it is a robust, secure and reliable Enterprise collaboration solution
* Execution and support of migration efforts - sites/users/workflows - from on-premises SharePoint environment to SharePoint Online with existing tools and or use of PowerShell
* Automation and improvement of processes to increase efficiencies and quality of service delivery
* Providing the leadership on best practices for solution design, with a thorough understanding of information architecture, enterprise application integration and portal interaction on mobile platforms
* Documenting detailed design, functional and technical specifications in developing solutions, adhering to best practices
* Partnering with peer teams and other stakeholders to create processes that ensure the collaborative toolsets and solutions meet established security, compliance and legal standards
* Troubleshooting technical issues and perform root cause analysis and take appropriate action to remediate issues
* Providing support to all areas of the business and mentoring and training other support tiers

Work Experience and Qualifications

* 5-7 years of relevant experience or equivalent
* Ability to create and enhance existing SharePoint Sites
* Design and incorporate various widgets into SharePoint.
* Experience in system administration of enterprise SharePoint environment (multi-server farms) including monitoring and troubleshooting
* Experience in Installation, upgrades, patches, configuration, administration, and support of all Share Point Services and Share Point portal servers.
* Experience configuring all service applications such as Search, Metadata, Use Profile Synchronization
* Monitoring and configuring timer jobs depending on business requirements
* Understanding and experience working authentication types
* Ability to learn new concepts very quickly
* Excellent verbal and written capabilities, a good listener and interpersonal skills
* Experience working with customers to obtain requirements, and provide recommendations
* Experience writing PowerShell scripts for maintenance, management, and automation, using the SharePoint Online Management Shell
* Proven technical proficiency in implementing collaboration solutions on a SharePoint platform with an understanding of the SharePoint Framework, SharePoint Add-ins, Publishing Sites, Site Templates, Enterprise Search, Reusable Components and Farm Solutions
* Experience managing aspects of the engineering and support lifecycle for enterprise collaboration applications including documentation, capacity planning, disaster recovery, backup & restore, setting up sophisticated regulatory, risk and security control measures
* Exceptional interpersonal skills, including presentation and communication skills at all levels
* Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and collaboratively on a team developing meaningful relationships to achieve common goals and project milestones
* On-call rotation
* Flexibility required to meet business needs

Desirable Criteria

* Experience administering and implementing Office 365 solutions based on SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, MS Flow, PowerApps, MS Teams
* Experience with SharePoint content migration processes and tools such as Metalogix and Sharegate
* Experience establishing CI/CD pipelines leveraging CI tools
* A degree in Computer Science or equivalent technology subject area
* Current Microsoft Certifications

Everest is committed to recruiting and retaining the most talented individuals in the industry. We offer a dynamic work environment and a competitive compensation and benefit package which includes a 401k plan, retirement/savings option, tuition reimbursement, medical, dental, vision, life and group legal plans.

Everest is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or creed, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, genetics, physical or mental disability, age, marital status, civil union status, family or parental status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

All considered applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S. with unexpired, acceptable employment eligibility verification documentation.