Interquest have a great opportunity for an experienced Microsoft/Platform consultant to work for a leading local authority. The Platform Specialist role is to ensure the day to day running of the Council production Servers, operating system, cloud environments, Office 365 collaboration applications, SAAS applications, Council's network, backups and Internet security infrastructure while ensuring high levels of systems availability.

• Provide ongoing administrative end user support and management of Office 365 services: including Email, OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint and PowerShell Scripting.
• Administer the Council's central collaboration platform, Microsoft Office 365, including Exchange, One Drive, Teams, SharePoint, Azure AD and Microsoft Endpoint Manager.

Key skill areas:

1. Security Compliance configuration and monitoring, including managing data protection requests.
2. Installation of software and hardware.
3. Maintaining and patching of the local M365/SCCM/InTunes/AD/Azure environments.
4. Provide in-depth analysis of report and escalation issues.
5. Actively support the IT Platform Manager in the implementation of customer focused, efficient and effective end user support administration to fully support ICT provision across internal service areas and external providers.
6. Provide timely, consistent and quality administrative support for service users across the range of services, including Office 365, Azure, SCCM, InTunes, SharePoint, Teams, PowerShell Scripting
7. Provide system administration of other corporate systems and associated processes including licence administration.
8. Make recommendations on best practices for Microsoft technologies.
9. Help manage changes in Microsoft 365/Azure, including developing and delivering training to staff.
10. Analyse and adjust work processes to accommodate changes in work/business requirements.

If you would be available and have recent experience within local government please send your profile

InterQuest Group is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy. InterQuest Group is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, religion/belief, race, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity, sex or sexual orientation. Please make us aware if you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.