Migration Engineer

Job Title: Migration Engineer

Location: London

Contract: Initially until 31st March (Outside IR35)

As part of the Office 365 Programme, we need to migrate data from shared drives and existing Sharepoint sites into Office 365. This includes both standard office files and also PST archive files. This role will be responsible for migrating this information for the period of the programme, and will be responsible for infrastructure and End User Technology related tasks during the programme. This person will also be responsible for troubleshooting problems related to these tasks.

Key Accountabilities:
In order to achieve this the successful candidate will be expected to perform the following:

*Work closely with the Digital Infrastructure and End User Technology teams to assist with infrastructure-related issues related to data migrations
*Carry out migrations from shared and personal drives to Office 365, as well as Sharepoint to Sharepoint migrations.
*Re-permission source file share areas following data migration to a defined process.
*To create, permission, populate and deploy new file share areas to house files that will not be migrated to Office 365.
*To manage the file share creation, permissioning and decommissioning for temporary file shares used during the import of PST files to Exchange Online.
*To run scripts and processes to conduct technical discovery on source locations.
*Address any infrastructure-related issues that might occur during the migration process.
*Address any issues that might occur during the migration process related to the migration tools.
*Understand the Digital Service offerings for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, to assist with the resolution of questions relating to this service.

Key Skills and experience:

*Experience of conducting data migrations into SharePoint online.
*Experience of creating and managing Windows file share, including direct permissioning using Access Control Lists.
*Experience of creating and managing Group Policy and logon scripts to deploy file shares.

Desirable
*Knowledge of Microsoft Office 365 technologies (especially SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business but also Exchange Online and Office productivity tools).
*Knowledge of wider Microsoft technologies such as Windows Server and Active Directory.
*A broad understanding about the concepts of working with Cloud technologies.
*Knowledge of migration tools, preferably ShareGate.



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