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IT M365 Expert

Hybrid in Madrid·Added 1 month ago (last checked 22 Oct)

GDELS

3 open roles

Overview

Work mode
Hybrid, Madrid
Hours
Continuous day (jornada continua) · Includes weekends
English
Required
Experience
5+ years
Education
University degree
Benefits
Flexible pay plan

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Skills

Requirements

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field
  • Minimum 5+ years of experience as a System Engineer with a focus on Microsoft M365.
  • Good understanding of IT security, Zero Trust, and cloud governance.
  • PowerShell scripting
  • Experience with automation (PowerShell, Graph API).
  • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • IT certifications (Microsoft MS-102, SC-300, MD-102, AZ-104) and ITIL Foundation
  • Ready to occasionally work late hours or on weekends for Patches/Updates/Rollouts
  • Highly committed
  • Advanced English written and spoken, Spanish and/or German is a plus
  • Strong analytical and conceptual thinking.
  • High degree of initiative and responsibility.

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

  • Be part of a large international group, a leader in the defense sector.
  • Participate in major national and international projects.
  • Join a highly qualified team where you can develop a solid professional career.
  • Excellent working environment in a proactive and collaborative setting.
  • Competitive salary.
  • Flexible compensation package, with benefits such as childcare, transportation, or training.
  • Continuous working hours and flexible scheduling.
  • Hybrid remote working model.
  • Opportunity to travel and geographic mobility.

The role

As an IT M365 Expert, you are responsible for the design, development, and reliable operation of our cloud-based Modern Workplace environment built on Microsoft 365.

You ensure that employees have secure, efficient, and high-performing digital workplace solutions.

What you'll do

  • Core Microsoft 365 Platform Ownership
  • Operate, maintain, and optimize all core M365 workloads, with specialized mastery in Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Exchange Online, and Entra ID.
  • Ensure continuous availability, performance, scalability, and reliability of the entire M365 ecosystem, including collaboration workloads and content services.
  • Oversee tenant‑wide configuration, service health monitoring, adoption governance, and lifecycle management.
  • Architect, implement, and manage SharePoint Online site collections, hubs, information architectures, metadata structures, libraries, lists, and DLP-enforced collaboration policies.
  • Oversee permission governance using Azure/Entra groups, role-based access, and scalable permission models. (Supports the defined model of RW/RO Azure Security Groups for SharePoint inheritance)
  • Support organizational initiatives such as intranet evolution, content migration, data restructuring, and site administration for business units.
  • Govern OneDrive environments, including synchronization controls, sharing restrictions, storage policies, and user onboarding.
  • Enable user adoption and transition away from legacy file servers, supporting organizational strategy to promote Teams + OneDrive modern data access models.
  • Ensure secure sharing across internal/external collaboration scenarios.
  • Full administrative control of mail flow, transport rules, connectors, accepted domains, compliance integrations, message tracing, and security configurations.
  • Oversee hygiene controls (DKIM, DMARC, SPF), anti-phishing, and secure email routing.
  • Lead mailbox provisioning, migration, hybrid coexistence, and associated governance.
  • Compliance, Retention & Governance (Microsoft Purview)
  • Design, implement, and enforce retention policies, retention labels, records management, and legal hold strategies across all M365 workloads.
  • Maintain data lifecycle governance using Purview capabilities such as audit, eDiscovery, Insider Risk, communication compliance, and sensitivity labels.
  • Ensure compliance with corporate, legal, and regulatory retention requirements, including defensible deletion and immutable record preservation.
  • Collaborate with Legal, Data Protection, and Security teams to respond to audits and discovery requests.
  • Implement and maintain identity governance, including access reviews, entitlement management, identity lifecycle, and privileged identity management.
  • Configure Conditional Access, MFA enforcement, Identity Protection, and secure collaboration policies.
  • Contribute to Zero Trust strategy across identity, devices, applications, and data.
  • Lead design, implementation, and enhancement of Modern Workplace standards, operational frameworks, and administrative automation.
  • Develop automation solutions using PowerShell, Graph API, Power Platform, and workflow integrations.
  • Evaluate, pilot, and deploy new Microsoft 365 features, ensuring proper change management, communication, and documentation.
  • Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, governance guidance, support runbooks, and user guides.
  • Continuously identify areas for improvement in collaboration, compliance, automation, and overall M365 service maturity.
  • Lead or participate in projects related to cloud transformation, collaboration modernization, and digital workplace optimization
  • Ensure clear, consistent IT communication aligned with GDELS IT strategy.
  • Use predefined templates and standards for announcements, outages, and updates.
  • Promote inter-site collaboration and knowledge sharing across IT teams.
  • Facilitate onboarding and training sessions for new users and technologies.
  • Collaborate with security teams on vulnerability management and threat detection.

Documentation, Standardization & Continuous Improvement

Maintain IT assets inventory via ITAM practices.

About GDELS

General Dynamics European Land Systems (GDELS) is a European defense contractor focused on land combat systems, such as armored vehicles and artillery. As a business unit of the US-based General Dynamics, GDELS operates across multiple European countries, with a significant presence in Spain through its subsidiary Santa Bárbara Sistemas. The company employs thousands of engineers and manufacturing professionals, and its Spanish operations are centered in Madrid, with additional facilities in other regions.

Industry
Defence Land Systems
Employees
5,000
Headquarters
Madrid, Spain
In Spain
Madrid, Seville, Asturias
Website
gdels.com

Good to know if you are moving

  • GDELS is a major defense employer in Spain, with its Spanish subsidiary Santa Bárbara Sistemas headquartered in Madrid and operating facilities in Seville, Asturias, and other locations.
  • The company offers roles in engineering, manufacturing, and support functions, often requiring security clearance due to the defense sector.
  • Spanish language skills are typically required for local positions, though some roles may be open to international candidates with relevant defense experience.
  • GDELS is part of General Dynamics, a US-based global defense contractor, which may provide opportunities for international mobility within the broader organization.
  • The Spanish defense industry is well-established, and GDELS offers competitive salaries and benefits aligned with the sector.

In their own words

About the company & team

You collaborate closely with IT Security and Networking team.

Administer Microsoft Teams end-to-end:

  • Team lifecycle, templates, naming conventions, expiration & archival
  • Channel governance, granular permission models, and private/shared channels
  • Teams meeting policies, voice configurations, Teams Rooms, and compliance recording
  • Teams App governance: policies, app permission setups, third‑party integrations
  • Ensure seamless collaboration by configuring Teams ↔ SharePoint integrations, inheritance models, and permissions alignment. (Aligned with your organization's use of Teams as primary data workspace)
  • Provide expert guidance in Teams-driven document management, versioning, secure sharing, and data classification.
  • Support Service Desk and operational teams with deep-dive issue resolution, root-cause analysis, and best-practice guidance.
  • Deliver training, workshops, user enablement content, and capability development for internal teams.
  • Maintain close collaboration with IT Security, Networking, and Architecture teams to ensure a unified and secure digital environment.
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Location

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