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Our pay ranges are built to allow for candidates with various levels of skill and experience to be considered, as well as for room for growth and tenure achieved in a role over time. Typical new hire salary offers fall within the minimum to midpoint of a pay range for many candidates. Any offer extended to a candidate will be based upon their unique set of knowledge, skills, education, and experience as well as internal equity.\nPay Range:\n$46.90 - $75.04Scheduled Weekly Hours:\n40What You’ll Be Doing\nReporting to the IT Infrastructure Operations department, the Systems Engineer role for the Cloud and App Services team plays a crucial role in the design and configuration of the organization's identity, collaboration, and cloud systems. This position is responsible for the security, maintenance, and continuous improvement of Microsoft 365 productivity and collaboration platforms, and serves as an escalation point for incidents and support requests. The role requires a proactive approach to learning and adapting to emerging technologies, ensuring our IT systems remain robust and aligned with industry and security best practices. Effective communication and documentation will be essential for engaging with departments inside and out of IT, following change procedures, and supporting the organization's commitment to service excellence.\nThis position emphasizes platform enablement and governance across Copilot, Power Platform, and SharePoint Online. The engineer manages and configures SchoolsFirst’s complex infrastructure, with a strong focus in one or more key functional areas:\nCopilot Studio, Power Platform\nSharePoint Online, OneDrive\nMicrosoft 365 Platform Services\nEntra ID (Formerly Azure AD)\nAzure Cloud Data Center\nPrimary duties associated with this role will include:\nSupport and administer Microsoft 365 services including Copilot, Power Platform, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Exchange Online, Teams, and related collaboration workloads.\nSupport Power Platform governance and environment management, including connectors, connector data policies, monitoring, and flow troubleshooting.\nDesign and maintain SharePoint Online and OneDrive configuration, access, sharing, and lifecycle standards that support secure collaboration and Copilot readiness.\nSupport Copilot and agent enablement through platform configuration, governance, monitoring, evaluation of new capabilities, and proofs of concept work.\nCollaborate with Security teams to maintain governance, auditing, and protection policies across Microsoft 365 and Purview, including information protection and DLP.\nImplement and manage automation and orchestration using PowerShell, Azure Automation, Power Platform, and Logic Apps to streamline operational processes.\nContribute to automation and standardization efforts that improve efficiency, resiliency, and service quality across platforms.\nPartner with peer engineering teams to integrate Microsoft 365 identity and collaboration capabilities into broader enterprise systems.\nSupport and enhance identity and access integrations between Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Active Directory, and other enterprise systems. \nOther duties related with this role:\nDevelop and maintain configuration standards and operating procedures.\nCoordinate with vendors for technical support and upgrades.\nTroubleshoot advanced issues or problems, including escalation internally or to 3rd party vendor support, to drive root cause analysis.\nForecast, recommend, and implement capacity planning.\nManage vendors and hold them accountable to obligations.\nSubmit and fulfill service requests.\nRespond to incidents and problems.\nManage vendors and hold them accountable to contractual SLA’s and obligations.\nProvide KPI and metrics for reporting.\nPerform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of systems infrastructure.\nConduct after-hours maintenance.\nPerform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required.\nGather and analyze system log files.\nCoordinate and collaborate with teammembers and service stakeholders.\nCreate, change, and delete user accounts per request.\nApply patches and upgrades on a regular basis.\nProvide assistance for support cases escalated by Systems Administrators.\nPerform peer review of submitted changes by Systems Administrators.\nProvide second tier support at the engineering level including investigation, troubleshooting, root cause analysis and resolution.\nPerform regular systems hardening to maintain security standards.\nMonitor ITSM tickets and prioritize appropriately.\nProvide second tier support at the engineering level including investigation, troubleshooting, root cause analysis and resolution.\nThis position will be part of a paid, on-call rotation supporting the production environment 24x7x365.\nAdditional Job Functions\nPerforms other duties as assigned\nComplies with regulatory compliance and assigned training requirements including but not limited to BSA regulations corresponding to their specific job duties. Failure to do so may result in disciplinary and other employment related actions.\n\nQualifications\nHigh School Diploma or GED required\nBachelor's Degree in a related field or equivalent years of experience required\n5-7 years of prior relevant experience required\nMicrosoft PL-200, MS-102, SC-401, SC-300, or equivalent certification preferred\n\nKnowledge, Skills, and Abilities\nAdvanced knowledge with two to five years of experience with one of more of the following Applications: •Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio enablement and administration. •Power Platform solutions enablement, administration, and governance. •SharePoint Online administration and data lifecycle management.\nAdvanced knowledge and experience with one or more of the following platforms: •Azure, Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft IIS, and Microsoft Teams •Credit Union specific applications •General back office applications •Sentinel, Solarwinds, Splunk, Upguard or other monitoring tools\nAdvanced knowledge and experience with one or more of the following operating systems: •Windows Server •Windows 11 Enterprise •Red Hat Enterprise Linux •VMware vCenter and vSphere •Azure or Azure Local\nExperience with SharePoint Online administration and governance.\nExposure to Power Platform Center of Excellence (COE) or low-code automation governance.\nKnowledge of Microsoft Graph API or automation integrations across Microsoft services.\nFamiliarity with Defender XDR, Sentinel, and Purview for monitoring and compliance.\nAdvanced knowledge of operating system scripting and utilities.\nAdvanced knowledge of SNMP and log monitoring tools.\nAdvanced knowledge of TCP/IP and OSI Model.\nAdvanced knowledge of firewalls, routers and switches.\nIntermediate knowledge of storage protocols; iSCSI, Fiber Channel and NFS.\nAdvanced knowledge of audit and security best practices (NIST, PCI, ISO).\nIntermediate knowledge of Data Center standards including cabling, fire suppression, power and safety.\n\nSchoolsFirst FCU is committed to Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Hiring\nAt SchoolsFirst FCU we are dedicated to building and growing a diverse, inclusive, and authentic Dream Team, so if you’re excited about a position or wanting to make a career change but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. Many skills are transferrable and you may be just the right candidate for the position, or for other roles we are working on.\nSchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. 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