SharePoint Administrator

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SharePoint Administrator supporting the strategy and operations of a federal SharePoint environment. Managing governance, security, and collaboration for SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365.

Posted 6/8/2026full-timeArlington • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudServiceNow

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

- Own the SharePoint platform strategy, governance, roadmap, and day-to-day service delivery for a federal customer environment.
- Define and maintain SharePoint standards, policies, site provisioning processes, lifecycle management procedures, and governance documentation.
- Lead information architecture activities, including taxonomy, metadata, navigation, hub and site architecture, permissions structure, and search optimization.
- Manage SharePoint operations, including platform availability, capacity planning, incident management, problem management, patching coordination, and vendor escalation.
- Oversee security and compliance controls, including permissions models, least-privilege access, retention labels, data loss prevention, eDiscovery, audit readiness, and records management alignment.
- Direct site and solution delivery, including intake, requirements gathering, backlog management, release planning, testing, deployment, and enhancement prioritization.
- Partner with customer stakeholders to understand business needs and translate requirements into SharePoint, Microsoft 365, and Power Platform solutions.
- Support or lead SharePoint migrations, consolidations, modernization activities, and continuous improvement initiatives, as applicable.
- Ensure SharePoint sites, solutions, content structures, and user experiences align with Section 508 accessibility requirements.
- Develop and maintain user guides, process documentation, governance materials, training content, and stakeholder communications.
- Support integration and collaboration across Microsoft 365 tools, including Teams, OneDrive, Purview, and related applications.
- Use scripting, automation, or administrative tools, including PowerShell, to streamline SharePoint administration and platform management.
- Support service health, adoption reporting, dashboards, and metrics to improve visibility into platform usage and operational performance.
- Coordinate with technical teams, service management teams, security stakeholders, and business users to resolve issues and improve platform effectiveness.
- Maintain awareness of Microsoft 365, SharePoint Online, security, compliance, and collaboration tool updates that may impact customer operations.

Requirements

What you’ll need

- Bachelor's Degree
- Public Trust Eligibility
- Minimum of 5 years of experience administering and delivering SharePoint solutions.
- Hands-on experience with SharePoint Online; SharePoint on-premises experience may also be considered.
- Proven experience supporting SharePoint governance, information architecture, and security/compliance practices in a mid-to-large organization.
- Experience with Microsoft 365 tools and services, including Teams, OneDrive, and Microsoft Purview compliance capabilities such as retention, data loss prevention, and eDiscovery.
- Experience supporting SharePoint permissions models, least-privilege access, retention policies, audit readiness, records management, or related compliance requirements.
- Experience gathering requirements, documenting business needs, managing intake, and translating stakeholder needs into SharePoint or Microsoft 365 solutions.
- Familiarity with Azure and/or AWS cloud environments.
- Familiarity with scripting or automation, including PowerShell.
- Familiarity with CI/CD concepts for SharePoint artifacts or related platform deployment activities.
- Strong written communication, documentation, stakeholder management, and customer service skills.
- Ability to support Section 508 compliance and accessibility requirements.
**Preferred Qualifications **
- Experience supporting VA or another large federal agency.
- Experience supporting SharePoint environments within personnel vetting, credentialing, security, operations, or similar federal program environments.
- Understanding of federal audit requirements, records management, retention, compliance, and information governance.
- Experience with ServiceNow or Jira for service management, incident management, change management, or backlog tracking.
- Experience with Power BI or similar reporting tools to support service health, adoption, usage, or performance dashboards.
- Experience with Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, or related Microsoft 365 automation tools.
- Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator or Microsoft 365 Certified: Developer certification.
- ITIL Foundation certification.

Benefits

Comp & perks

- Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- Retirement Plan (401k)
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
- Paid Time Off
- Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
- Short Term & Long-Term Disability
- Training & Development

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Hard Skills & Tools

SharePointSharePoint OnlinePowerShellMicrosoft 365Power PlatformCI/CDinformation architecturesecurity compliancedata loss preventioneDiscovery

Soft Skills

written communicationdocumentationstakeholder managementcustomer servicerequirements gatheringproblem managementincident managementcapacity planningservice deliverycollaboration

Certifications

Microsoft 365 Certified: AdministratorMicrosoft 365 Certified: DeveloperITIL Foundation