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Remote Microsoft 365 Migration Engineer
Kforce • New York, NY
No Relocation
Posted: August 20, 2026
Responsibilities
- Assess Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive environments for migration readiness
- Plan and execute tenant-to-tenant migrations, including migration waves, cutovers, and rollback strategies
- Perform pre-migration assessments, pilot testing, production migrations, validation, and remediation
- Automate migration and validation activities using PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, and M365 tools
- Troubleshoot identity, mailbox, permissions, authentication, collaboration, and synchronization issues
- Maintain migration documentation, runbooks, reports, and operational handoff materials
- Collaborate with infrastructure, security, networking, application, and business teams throughout migration projects
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft 365 administration and migrations
- Experience with PowerShell, including Exchange Online and Microsoft 365 administration
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Graph API/Graph PowerShell
- Experience with Microsoft migration capabilities such as Migration Manager, SharePoint Migration Tool, Exchange migration batches, and cross-tenant migration features
- Experience with third-party migration platforms such as Quest, BitTitan MigrationWiz, ShareGate, AvePoint, or equivalent is desirable
- Understanding of Active Directory, Entra Connect, DNS, SMTP, domains, authentication, Conditional Access, MFA, RBAC, and identity lifecycle management
- Strong troubleshooting skills across identity, messaging, collaboration, and content migration workloads
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Exchange Online/Outlook
- Microsoft Teams
- SharePoint Online
- OneDrive for Business
- Microsoft 365 Groups
- 4-7+ years of Microsoft infrastructure/Microsoft 365 engineering experience
- 2-4+ years of hands-on Microsoft 365 migration experience
- Experience delivering large-scale enterprise or tenant-to-tenant migrations
- Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, tenant consolidations, or Microsoft 365 transformation programs
- Ability to execute migration waves involving hundreds of users
- Experience producing migration runbooks, cutover plans, validation reports, and technical documentation
- Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert
- Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Teams Administrator Associate
- Relevant Microsoft Azure/Microsoft 365 certifications