Job Description

Microsoft 365 Administrator

ROLE OVERVIEW

This is your chance to join a truly iconic Midland's retail group. Due to ongoing company expansion, we now have an opportunity for a Microsoft 365 Administrator to join my clients team.

You will help manage, support and enhance our clients Microsoft 365 environment and play a key part in ensuring the collaboration, identity and productivity platforms remain secure, stable and aligned with business needs. Working alongside the Infrastructure and Service Operations teams, you will take ownership of day-to-day administration, troubleshooting, service improvement and small-to-medium enhancements within the M365 stack.

This role is ideal for an engineer ready to step up into broader M365 responsibilities while still remaining hands-on. The role is suited to someone with strong hands-on experience across Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams, Entra ID (Azure AD) and Intune.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Microsoft 365 Administration

Administer and support Exchange Online, including mail flow, security, transport rules and shared mailbox management. Manage SharePoint Online sites, permissions, access governance, and support site owners with structure and best practice. Administer Teams and OneDrive, including policies, lifecycle and governance. Perform licence management, group management and identity configuration within Entra ID.

Security & Compliance

Implement and maintain MFA, Conditional Access and identity security controls. Support compliance configurations including retention policies, DLP and auditing. Assist in reviewing security alerts and supporting remediation activities.

Device & Endpoint Management

Support Intune configuration for Windows and mobile devices, including compliance profiles, configuration policies and application deployment.

Service Improvement & Support

Resolve escalated issues from the Service Desk and act as a subject matter expert across the M365 suite. Contribute to service documentation, playbooks, and best practice standards. Support ongoing M365 adoption, ensuring colleagues make effective use of the tools available.

Projects & Enhancements

Deliver small to medium changes within the tenant such as policy updates, permission reviews, migrations, or service rollouts. Assist with larger transformation projects alongside senior engineers and architects.

CANDIDATE PROFILE / ESSENTIAL SKILLS REQUIRED

To be considered, candidates will offer:

Strong, demonstrable experience administering Microsoft 365 services in a mid-size or enterprise environment.
Good knowledge of:

Exchange Online

(mail flow, permissions, security)

SharePoint Online

(sites, libraries, permissions, structure)

Entra ID

(identity, groups, Conditional Access)

Teams & OneDrive

Intune

(device compliance, configuration profiles) Understanding of Microsoft 365 security, governance and compliance features. Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues across identity, collaboration and devices. Clear written communication and the ability to document processes effectively.

WHY APPLY FOR THIS ROLE?

This is a truly outstanding opportunity that offers the successful Microsoft 365 Administrator unrivalled challenge, career progression and earnings potential. You'll work in a 8,000+ user, multi-site environment with hundreds of servers and thousands of networking devices, giving you exposure to enterprise-scale infrastructure and the opportunity to influence both infrastructure strategy and key modernisation projects.

This is a truly outstanding opportunity that offers the successful Microsoft 365 Administrator unrivalled challenge, career progression and earnings potential. DO NOT MISS THIS!

In addition to the salary of up-to 45K, the benefits package includes:

On Call Weekly Allowance Enhanced Holidays Pension Discounted Gym Discounted car lease schemes Industry leading maternity, paternity and adoption leave Free onsite parking L&D budget Hybrid working

You must be eligible to work in the UK. No Sponsorship offered

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: 35,000.00-45,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Casual dress Company events Company pension Cycle to work scheme Employee discount Free parking Gym membership Life insurance On-site parking Private dental insurance Private medical insurance Work from home
Application question(s):

Do you have access to your own transport & a driving licence?
Experience:

Microsoft 365 Administrator: 3 years (required)
Work authorisation:

United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Leicester LE2 0AJ