Pearson Whiffin Recruitment Ltd
SharePoint Administrator
Job Description
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements:- Strong, demonstrable experience in SharePoint Online tenant administration at scale, including hub architecture, structured site models, restricted content, Teams-connected sites and storage governance.
- Strong understanding of the SharePoint permission model, including inheritance, permission levels, sharing links, guest access and Microsoft 365/Entra ID integration.
- Experience with Microsoft Purview, particularly sensitivity labels, retention, DLP, auditing and content search across SharePoint and OneDrive.
- Experience administering OneDrive for Business, including Known Folder Move, sync policies and storage management.
- Advanced PowerShell skills, including SharePoint Online Management Shell, PnP PowerShell and Microsoft Graph PowerShell.
- Experience with managed metadata, Term Store and content type administration.
- Experience with SharePoint search configuration, tuning and troubleshooting.
- Ability to diagnose sharing, access, synchronisation, indexing and permissions issues.
- Experience with SharePoint Online migration tooling and file-share migrations.
- Ability to produce clear technical documentation and guidance for technical teams and business owners.
- Experience with SharePoint Advanced Management, including Restricted Access Control, Data Access Governance reporting and Site Lifecycle Management, is desirable.
- Experience with eDiscovery Premium, Insider Risk Management, Communication Compliance or Information Barriers is desirable.
- Experience with Entra ID access packages, entitlement management and access reviews is desirable.
- Experience with SharePoint Framework, modern site pages and web part configuration is desirable.
- Experience with Microsoft Graph and reporting APIs for estate-wide analysis is desirable.
- Experience working with personal or customer data in a regulated environment is desirable.
- Experience with CLI for Microsoft 365 or comparable administration tooling is desirable.
- Microsoft certifications are desirable, particularly MS-102 and certification pathways covering Teamwork Administration and Information Protection & Compliance.
- We own SharePoint Online across a Microsoft 365 tenant.
- We manage the structure, permissions, governance, security, lifecycle and ongoing development of a large SharePoint Online estate.
- We ensure content is accessible to the right people, protected appropriately and managed throughout its lifecycle.
- We work across the central SharePoint Hub, departmental and functional sites, restricted libraries, Teams-connected sites and approved non-standard environments.
- We handle SharePoint architecture, provisioning and lifecycle management.
- We manage permissions, access and sharing.
- We administer Microsoft Purview and information protection controls.
- We carry out platform administration.
- We support automation and migration activities.
- Support
- Microsoft 365
- PowerShell
- Security
- SharePoint
- Web
- Office 365
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We are seeking an experienced SharePoint Administrator for a hands-on technical specialist role focused on SharePoint Online across a Microsoft 365 tenant. The role offers significant exposure to Microsoft Purview, automation, reporting and migration, and involves working across a complex SharePoint estate that includes a central SharePoint Hub, departmental and functional sites, restricted libraries, Teams-connected sites and approved non-standard environments. There is no formal degree requirement; we value practical expertise, technical capability and demonstrable experience managing SharePoint Online in a complex environment.
last updated 33 week of 2026
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