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Lead SharePoint Administrator

Vertex

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Location: Boston, MA Posted Date: 4/25/2013 Position Type: Job Code: 3495454BIOS Salary: Competitive Required Education: Bachelors Degree Areas of Expertise Desired: Information Systems

Description


Key Responsibilities:
- SharePoint farm and system administration: set-up and configuration of SharePoint Services on Servers, maintenance of Web Front End Servers, Indexing Servers.
- Planning and implementing server upgrades, maintenance fixes, and vendor-supplied patches.
- Creation and maintenance of Sites and Site Collections, as well as all associated databases and services, such as Shared Service Providers, and Extended Authentication providers.
- Set-up and maintenance of outgoing and incoming e-mail services
- Qualification, installation and maintenance of any plug-in, feature, web part, template or solution, including 3rd party software or applications.
- Managing back-up and recovery practices, and maintaining integrity and reliability of access to information.
- Establishing and/or maintaining end user access policy and permissions.
- Reviewing, implementing and maintaining search services, including defining and expanding search scopes.
- Implementing and maintaining user profile properties, including 'MySites' functionality.
- Coordinating and implementing governance policies and best use practices, and communicating with company management best use scenarios.
- Create simple workflow processes and simple site customization.
- Monitoring system performance utilizing monitoring tools and providing performance statistics and reports such as site usage and growth, disk space, server load, etc.
- Applying SQL Server and SharePoint patches and cumulative updates on a regular basis.
- Author and execute Power Shell scripts that automate routine administrative tasks
- Bachelor's degree (preferably in Computer Science) or:
- Two to Five years' experience working with SharePoint Platform (with recent experience using MOSS 2010) in an administrative capacity
 
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong understanding of MS SharePoint Architecture (MOSS 2010)
- Power Shell scripting experience is strongly desirable for this candidate.
- Expertise and experience with complex technical activities
- Excellent communication skills:
- Able to communicate with system users to identify, explain, and resolve complex problems.
- Communicate problems to vendors who are assisting with problem resolution.
- Ability to act as go between a technical discussion with other computer professionals and a non-technical discussion with end users.
- Strong interpersonal skills in a team-based development environment
- Technical creativity
- Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle methods
- Knowledge of personal computers, including Microsoft Word, Excel and Project applications
- Able to define a strategy for isolating and resolving complex problems

 
Vertex creates new possibilities in medicine. Our team discovers, develops and commercializes innovative therapies so people with serious diseases can lead better lives. Vertex scientists and our collaborators are working on new medicines to cure or significantly advance the treatment of hepatitis C, cystic fibrosis, rheumatoid arthritis and other life-threatening diseases. Founded more than 20 years ago in Cambridge, Mass., we now have ongoing worldwide research programs and sites in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Vertex has consistently been recognized as one of the industry's top workplaces by leading publications such as Science magazine, The Boston Globe, Boston Business Journal, San Diego Business Journal and The Scientist. For more information and to view Vertex's press releases, please visit www.vrtx.com.

Vertex is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Vertex will make reasonable accommodations for qualified  individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.

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