Microsoft SharePoint Farm Administrator

About the role

The employer is looking for a Microsoft SharePoint Farm Administrator to operate, secure and maintain its on-premises SharePoint Server environments. The role owns day-to-day farm administration across production and non-production environments, leads the technical response to platform incidents and works with infrastructure, security, database and application teams to keep the platform reliable and recoverable.

Key responsibilities

• Administer multi-server SharePoint farms using Central Administration and PowerShell, managing web applications, service applications, content databases and farm configuration.
• Monitor farm health, availability, performance and capacity; troubleshoot issues using ULS logs, Windows Event Viewer and monitoring tools.
• Plan and execute updates, configuration changes and upgrades, validate them in non-production, document rollback procedures and verify service health after deployment.
• Manage farm-level security, including service accounts, authentication settings, TLS certificates and privileged access, and coordinate vulnerability remediation and audits.
• Maintain backup and recovery procedures with database and infrastructure teams, test restores and document results against recovery objectives.
• Provide advanced support for platform incidents, coordinate escalations and document root causes and corrective actions.
• Automate recurring tasks with PowerShell and maintain topology diagrams, configuration records and runbooks.

Required profile

• Demonstrated hands-on experience administering and troubleshooting production, multi-server SharePoint Server farms on-premises.
• Experience patching SharePoint farms, validating service health after changes and coordinating production maintenance windows.
• Practical experience troubleshooting SharePoint service applications, authentication and performance issues across application, web and database tiers.
• Experience with backup and restore, incident management and change control in production.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and communicate incident impact, risks and recovery status to technical and business stakeholders.
• Preferred: experience with SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, high availability setups (SQL Server Always On, load-balanced front ends), hybrid configurations and migrations to SharePoint Online, and enterprise monitoring, vulnerability remediation and security hardening.

Required skills

• SharePoint Central Administration and PowerShell, including scripting for health checks and maintenance.
• Working knowledge of Windows Server, IIS, Active Directory, DNS, TLS and Microsoft SQL Server.
• Preferred: SQL Server Always On availability groups and SharePoint hybrid configurations.