Lead O365 Engineer

Job Description

Leidos Australia is looking for a Microsoft Office 365 Engineer to join our talented team based in Canberra.You'll workclosely with the customertodesign, implement and support cloud services.

You will be able to demonstrate knowledge and professional experience as an experienced Microsoft Office 365 Engineerwith strong knowledge and systems engineering skills.

Activities in your role may include:

• Eliciting, understanding, and designing against both business and technical requirements,
• Developing and delivery of design documentation,
• Working in Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Office 365 environments comprising multiple tenants as well as other cloud platforms and services
• Overseeing the implementation of Microsoft Azure tenant-level configuration, including but not limited to:
  • Azure Active Directory administration,
  • Conditional Access Policy,
  • Multi-Factor Authentication,
  • Identity and Access Management,
• Overseeing the implementation of Microsoft Office 365 tenant-level configuration, including but not limited to:
  • M365 Groups
  • M365 Advanced Threat Protection
  • M365 Security and Compliance Policies
  • Service configuration for core M365 services including Teams, SPO, EXO and OneDrive
  • Sensitivity labels, data loss prevention policies, retention policies
• Integrating 3rd party solutions with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Office 365 including SaaS backup solutions
• Implementing cloud services aligned with an existing cloud operating model or framework
• Reviewing cloud environment monitoring and administrative reports for both Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Office 365 to determine opportunities for environment enhancement
• Coordinating agile life cycle activities and ensuringprogress is being made with the objectives,
• System release and deployment, and
• Engaging effectively with the Systems Engineering team, management, and other teams across the Technical Systems areas.

Key success factors

• Ability to rapidly gain trust and work effectively with a range of colleagues and stakeholders to meet proposal and project deadlines
• Ability to continually learn and be energised by new technologies, capabilities, and opportunities
• Ability to lead technology teams, helping them to prioritise and work systematically and logically through assigned tasks
• Ability to rapidly understand new, complex system requirements, assimilate existing documentation and processes and identify patterns to streamline operations
• Ability to translate client needs (through briefs and meetings) into elegant, workable solutions and to translate these into suitably resourced, logically sequenced, and accurately costed proposals
• Ability to standardise and accept service transition from projects into operational teams
• Ability to develop/implement complex, evergreen cloud platform configuration
• Ability to articulate conceptual and solution architectures and development approaches clearly and concisely in both writing and diagrammatically
• Ability to coach / mentor Technology team members constructively and effectively
• Attention to detail and ability to think creatively to achieve outcomes

Qualifications

As a seasoned Microsoft Office 365 engineer, you have strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Office 365 services and experience in the implementation and configuration of these services – including leading teams delivering Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Office 365 services to customers.

You also have:

• 7-10 years of experience working in a similar role within an engineering or project environment (preferably in a similar industry)
• 3-5 years of experience working as a team leader or team manager,
• Good problem solving skills,
• Good knowledge and application of a broad range of skills including software, systems and architecture, and systems engineering,
• Demonstrated ability to produce consistently good results in a complex environment,
• Excellent written and oral communication skills,
• Willingness to document and improve software development processes

• Experience delivering M365 projects utilising an agile delivery approach

• Scrum Master experience

• Agile Delivery Certification

Additional Information

Successful candidates will be required to be Australian Citizens and be able to obtain and maintain an Australian Government Security Clearance.

At Leidos, we’ve built our business on the ability to Redefine Possible and the same applies to your career. We proudly embrace diversity and support our people at every stage of their Leidos journey in terms of inclusion, accessibility and flexibility. We look forward to welcoming you.