Sony Pictures Entertainment · 2 days ago
Sr. Systems Engineer, M365
Culver City, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$120K/yr - $150K/yr
8+ years expSony Pictures Entertainment is seeking a Sr. Systems Engineer for their Microsoft 365 platform. The role involves designing, implementing, and managing M365 services while ensuring security and optimal performance, along with providing infrastructure support and collaborating with various teams for enhanced productivity.
ContentFilm DistributionFilm ProductionMedia and EntertainmentTV Production
Responsibilities
Design, implement and manage M365 services in accordance with global and SPE security policy requirements. Responsible for the governance, risk and compliance (GRC) of the M365 platform
Monitor and troubleshoot M365 platform issues, ensuring optimal performance and availability
Manage outages, identify root cause analysis and resolve all M365 platform issues within allowed service levels
Proactively identify and remediate security risks pertaining to the platform and product suites
Develop and maintain documentation for M365 configurations, processes, and best practices
Collaborate with IT and business units to gather requirements and deliver tailored solutions that enhance productivity
Stay current with Microsoft 365 updates and features, recommending continuous improvements and new functionalities
Lead in cross-functional projects and contribute to strategic planning for future M365 initiatives
Develop key performance metrics to drive business value of IT
Conduct user training and provide technical support to ensure effective use of M365 tools
Primarily responsible for SPE’s M365 tenant
Manage outages, identify root cause, and resolve all M365 issues within allowed service levels
Participate in the change control processes
Participate in the development of operational procedures and policies
Communicate change requests, issues and resolutions, event status as well other important matters to all areas of IT and customer departments
Identify, resolve and escalate business issues as appropriate
Escalation point for operations support team
Manage after hours and on-call support
Develop and maintain project plans for medium to large sized M365 projects
Provide oral and written status reports to IT management and customers
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree preferred
Knowledge of systems concepts (Unix or Linux)
Minimum 8 years employment in the IT industry working with a major systems and vendors
Minimum 5 years' experience with M365 Cloud environment required
Minimum 3 years' experience with Microsoft Entra ID, Exchange and ProofPoint required
Minimum 3 years' experience with Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive and Power Platform
Minimum 3 years' experience with MDM (InTune)
Minimum 2 years' experience with Graph API, Terraform
Knowledge of Microsoft 365 platform product suites, identity and federation services and cloud security
Strong interpersonal skills are required. Ability to work effectively with team members, clients and other areas of the IT environment
Strong written and oral communications
Excellent problem-solving abilities, strong decision making skills and make sound judgment decisions
Ability to work effectively with team members, clients and other areas of IT
Ability to take initiative and work with minimal supervision
Ability to handle multiple tasks and be flexible in a fast-paced environment
Ability to deliver on time
Preferred
Experience with infrastructure as code / configuration management is a plus
Programming experience is a plus
2+ years of entertainment experience is a plus
Benefits
Annual incentive
Comprehensive benefits
Company
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation. It is a sub-organization of Sony.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
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$1M2000-11-07Series A· $1M
Leadership Team
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Tom Bernard
Co-President and Co-Founder of Sony Pictures Classics
Jake Zim
Senior Vice President Virtual Reality
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