About the Role
We are seeking a skilled SharePoint SME / 3rd Line Technical Specialist to support and evolve our SharePoint estate across on-premises and Microsoft 365 platforms. This is a hands-on role requiring strong expertise in SharePoint upgrades, administration, and development.
Responsibilities
- Manage SharePoint farm servers, web applications, service applications, content databases, and supporting infrastructure.
- Administer Search Service Applications, Managed Metadata, User Profile Services, Distributed Cache, and related components.
- Act as 3rd line escalation for complex SharePoint issues
- Lead SharePoint 2019 to Subscription Edition (SE) upgrades
- Manage and support SharePoint Online (M365)
- Ensure platform performance, security, and reliability
Requirements
- To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.
- To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.
- Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.
- Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.
- If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including: identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service).
Skills
- SharePoint Server 2019 & Subscription Edition (SE)
- SharePoint Online (M365)
- Deep knowledge of SharePoint farm architecture and operational support.
- Understanding of search-driven user interfaces and applications.
- Extensive experience supporting SharePoint Search architecture.
- Crawl configuration, indexing, query processing, and search optimization
Location
- Hybrid working
Work Type
- Hybrid working
Benefits
- Flexibility to work your way
- Positive work-life balance
- Hybrid-first way of working
- Flexible working arrangements
- Accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024
- Employee wellbeing is vitally important
- Trained ‘Mental Health Champions’
- Investment in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy
- Empowered to explore, innovate, and progress
- Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset
- Countless training and development opportunities
- Access to 250,000 courses
- Numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications
- Shared energy
- Professional community of experts
About the Company
- Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value.
- We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people.
- With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of over 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries.
- We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations.
- The Group reported 2025 global revenues of €22.5 billion.
- Make it real | www.capgemini.com
Equal Opportunity
- You can bring your whole self to work.
- At Capgemini, striving for equity, diversity and inclusion is part of everyday life, and will be part of your working reality.
- We have built an inclusive and welcoming environment, for everyone.
- We are a Disability Confident Employer
- Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme.
- As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who: Declare they have a disability, and Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.
- Please opt in during the application process.
