Systems Administrator

What We're Looking For: Barge Design Solutions is seeking an experienced Systems Administrator - Microsoft 365 & AI to lead the administration, optimization, and governance of our Microsoft 365 collaboration and AI platforms. This role will focus on SharePoint, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and the Microsoft Power Platform, ensuring secure, efficient, and innovative technology solutions that enhance collaboration and business productivity. The ideal candidate will bring expertise in Microsoft 365 administration, AI agent development, platform governance, and workflow automation. As a key member of the IT team, this position will also support enterprise systems, identity and access management, and infrastructure services while driving continuous improvement, user adoption, and the effective integration of emerging AI technologies across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Administer SharePoint, including site provisioning, architecture, libraries, permissions, external sharing, and site lifecycle management
• Manage Microsoft 365 Copilot readiness and licensing, and routinely review SharePoint and OneDrive permissions to prevent oversharing of sensitive content
• Develop and deliver Copilot, Copilot Studio, and AI agent training to build employee skills and drive AI adoption across the firm
• Partner with business units to gather requirements to assist with building, configuring, testing, publishing, and maintaining agents to connect employees to firm knowledge and processes
• Maintain the AI agent inventory and enforce governance for ownership, access, deployment approvals, change control, monitoring, and retirement
• Administer Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Groups, including team creation, membership, guest access, and archival of inactive teams and sites
• Provide support for Power Automate workflows and Power Platform environments and data policies supporting SharePoint and Copilot Studio
• Automate recurring administration and reporting tasks
• Participate in broader systems administration duties, including endpoint and server support, monitoring, patching, backup and restore, and disaster recovery testing
• Create and maintain technical documentation, platform standards, inventories, and runbooks, and provide user guidance and training as needed

Education & Experience Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of experience administering Microsoft 365, SharePoint Online, enterprise collaboration platforms, or related systems
• Proven experience designing and governing SharePoint environments, including site architecture, hub sites, permissions, sharing, libraries, retention, governance, and troubleshooting issues across a broad user community.
• Advanced expertise in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio, including configuration, licensing, data access, security controls, and governance
• In-depth experience in creating and managing AI agents, including requirements gathering, design, knowledge-source configuration, testing, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management
• Experience supporting Teams-connected SharePoint sites and Microsoft 365 collaboration services
• Experience with Microsoft Entra ID, identity management, access controls, and Microsoft 365 security concepts
• Experience documenting technical requirements, platform standards, support procedures, governance decisions, and end user training.
• Working knowledge of Windows operating systems, networking concepts, and enterprise production environments
• Experience supporting Microsoft Power Platform solutions, including Power Apps and Power Automate Skills: SharePoint administration: site collections, architecture, libraries, lists, permissions, external sharing, lifecycle management, and governance
• Microsoft 365 Copilot administration: readiness, licensing, adoption support, data access, security, and responsible-use controls
• Copilot Studio: building, configuring, testing, publishing, and maintaining agents, topics, instructions, knowledge sources, actions, connectors, and environments
• AI agent governance: ownership, access, testing, deployment approvals, monitoring, change control, documentation, and retirement
• Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Groups administration, particularly their relationship to SharePoint permissions and site lifecycle
• Power Platform familiarity, including Power Automate workflows, connectors, environments, data policies, and integration with SharePoint and Copilot Studio
• Microsoft Entra ID, identity management, role-based access, and least-privilege administration PowerShell or similar scripting and automation capabilities
• Broader systems administration, including endpoints, servers, monitoring, patching, backup, restore, and disaster recovery practices
• Ability to maintain clear technical documentation, standards, inventories, and runbooks
• Ability to assess business processes and recommend when to use standard Microsoft 365 capabilities or an alternative solution

Why join us?

Barge Design Solutions, Inc., is an engineering and architecture firm with diverse in-house multidisciplinary practice areas. The employee-owned company is more than 650+ people strong and serves clients nationwide from multiple U.S. locations. Barge is ranked on Engineering News-Record (ENR)’s Top 500 Design Firms and Architectural Record’s Top 300 Architecture Firms and is a certified Great Place To Work®. Our primary purpose for being in business is ultimately to create a better life by unleashing the potential of our people, clients and communities. This purpose is supported by our company’s core values because at the end of the day, Barge CARES:

• Collaborate – Help and expect help. Teamwork is essential in what we do.
• Authentic – Honesty, integrity and trust are at the heart of everything we do. We are who we say we are.
• Responsible – We are accountable for our work, our attitude, and our actions. We make Barge better.
• Excellence – We go all in and expect more of ourselves than others expect of us.
• Service – We are humble. We use our gifts in service of others.

We believe that if we are living out our purpose for being in business and integrating our values into everything we do, we will ultimately achieve our vision to be the firm best known for being selected when it matters most. Equal Opportunity Employer All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status or on the basis of disability. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled Agency Submissions No unsolicited agency submissions. Barge Design Solutions does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or staffing agencies. Any unsolicited resume becomes the property of Barge Design Solutions, and no fee will be paid for resulting hires. Only agencies with a signed agreement are authorized to submit candidates.