Microsoft 365 SharePoint Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Microsoft 365 SharePoint Engineer to support a long-term enterprise project in Basel. This is a 3-year contract role with the possibility of extension.

The ideal candidate for this role will have strong hands-on experience in administering maintaining and optimising hybrid SharePoint environments including on-premise SharePoint Server farms and modern Microsoft 365 / SharePoint Online collaboration platforms. The role requires a strong combination of SharePoint infrastructure administration monitoring SPFx frontend integration workflow automation and performance tuning.

Strategic Scope: Architecture configuration and custom programmatic extension of local on-premise SharePoint farms and hybrid online site topologies designing custom workflow structures and localized data compliance record centers.

Tasks

• Farm Infrastructure Administration: Install scale patch and manage physical multi-server local SharePoint Server configurations maintaining system health and high application load performance.
• Telemetry & Monitoring Oversight: Configure audit and analyze ULS (Unified Logging Service) log chains IIS application traces and performance counters to identify architectural bottlenecks.
• Custom Frontend Integration: Program and integrate highly responsive user web interfaces client extensions and localized widgets leveraging the modern SharePoint Framework (SPFx) and PnP patterns.
• Workflow Automation Construction: Model deploy and debug complex multi-step document workflow automations routing validations and transactional document processing forms.
• Code Refactoring & Tuning: Analyze custom farm solutions and server-side code assemblies to optimize database read/write queries and maintain rapid page-load execution indexes.

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 to 5 years of hands-on experience in SharePoint administration SharePoint Server farm management or Microsoft 365 collaboration platform engineering.

• Strong experience installing configuring patching scaling and maintaining multi-server SharePoint Server farm environments.

• Good knowledge of SharePoint Online Microsoft 365 collaboration services and hybrid SharePoint platform architectures.

• Experience monitoring and troubleshooting SharePoint environments using ULS logs IIS traces performance counters and native diagnostic tools.

• Hands-on experience developing or integrating responsive SharePoint user interfaces extensions and web parts using SharePoint Framework (SPFx) and PnP patterns.

• Experience designing deploying and troubleshooting document workflows approval processes routing rules and automated business forms.

• Good understanding of SharePoint performance optimisation including page-load performance database query behaviour indexing caching and custom solution tuning.

• Ability to analyse refactor and support custom SharePoint farm solutions server-side code assemblies and legacy platform components.

• Strong documentation skills including the ability to maintain runbooks configuration guides technical diagrams and operational procedures.

• Ability to work independently as well as part of a distributed project team.

• Languages : Flawless bilingual/native-level business German communications proficiency (C1/C2 level written and spoken) is required. The candidate must present seamlessly in German during the technical panel interview (Anbieterfachgespräch).

• Swiss Compliance : Must hold EU/EFTA nationality or possess an active valid Swiss permanent residency/work card (C Permit or unrestricted B/G Permit).