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Posted 9 Oct 2026

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Employment
Full time
Posted
9 Oct 2026

About the role

Year of experience : 5 to 7 years

Role Summary:

The L2 Migration Engineer will support SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams and OneDrive migrations using ShareGate. The role requires hands-on capability in connection setup, migration job execution, monitoring, validation and standard remediation under L3-approved designs and runbooks, while maintaining content, metadata and permission integrity.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Support migration delivery from discovery and readiness assessment through cutover, hypercare and closure.
  • Collect and validate inventories for SharePoint sites, libraries, lists, Teams, Microsoft 365 Groups, OneDrive accounts, permissions, metadata, versions and dependencies.
  • Configure ShareGate tenant connections, workstations or agents, mappings, filters, migration jobs and reports using approved standards.
  • Perform connectivity checks, pilots, test migrations, production waves, delta passes, final cutover and post-migration remediation.
  • Execute SharePoint Online, Teams and OneDrive migrations within approved migration waves and change windows.
  • Monitor migration dashboards, throughput, warnings and errors; resolve standard permission, sharing, metadata, version, path and content issues.
  • Perform reconciliation and validation of item counts, permissions, metadata, versions, sharing and site functionality.
  • Maintain mapping workbooks, wave trackers, migration reports, issue logs, validation evidence, SOPs and knowledge articles.
  • Support bridge calls, change activities, weekend cutovers and hypercare; provide timely status updates.
  • Escalate complex information architecture, security, governance, data-integrity or persistent tool issues to L3 and support root-cause analysis.
  • Complete assigned closure actions including exception tracking, business confirmation, handover and lessons learned.

Required Skills & Experience:

  • 5 To 7 years of IT experience with hands-on Microsoft 365 collaboration migration experience.
  • Practical experience with ShareGate configuration, migration execution, monitoring and reporting.
  • Good knowledge of SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 Groups, sites, libraries, lists, metadata, versions and permissions.
  • Experience executing pilot, staged, delta and cutover migration batches.
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, modern authentication, application permissions and identity dependencies.
    Basic to intermediate PowerShell skills for inventory, job preparation, validation and reporting.
  • Ability to troubleshoot common connectivity, permission, sharing, metadata, version, path and content issues.
  • Experience in enterprise, multi-site or tenant-to-tenant migration projects is desirable.
  • Experience multi-site or international is highly desirable.
  • Experience in complex environment,Troubleshooting, root cause analysis

Key Competencies:

  • Disciplined execution against migration designs, runbooks and change controls
  • Strong troubleshooting, attention to detail and timely escalation
  • Content, metadata, permission and data-quality focus
  • Effective customer, team and stakeholder communication • Collaborative, proactive and documentation-focused approach

Certifications & Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering or a related discipline.
  • Relevant Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Teams or Identity certification preferred.
  • ShareGate migration training preferred; ITIL Foundation desirable.

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