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An experienced senior messaging engineer is needed in Braamfontein (Braampark) to design, secure and maintain enterprise hybrid messaging environments. This contract, senior-level role provides technical leadership across Exchange Online and on-premises Exchange, drives migration and remediation work, resolves complex level-three escalations, and supports high availability, security and service performance. The listing was posted on 29 October 2026 and expires in 7 days.
The advert is placed by Paracon, a recruitment specialist that helps deliver clients’ business strategies by finding top information and communication technology talent. Paracon forms part of the Adcorp Group of Companies, an international parent company to a group of recruitment specialist brands, and says its reputation, industry leadership and national reach help it attract the technology talent its clients need.
The work centres on enterprise hybrid messaging: keeping mail flowing reliably between on-premises Exchange and Microsoft 365, securing it, and leading the technical work when migrations, transitions or serious incidents arise.
The engineer architects, maintains and troubleshoots hybrid connectivity between on-premises Exchange and Microsoft 365 / Exchange Online. They develop advanced PowerShell scripts to automate mailbox provisioning, compliance audits, administration and reporting, and they configure and manage Microsoft Entra Connect, Microsoft Entra ID and cloud identity integration.
Messaging security and compliance are central: the role implements and manages controls including SPF, DKIM, DMARC, Exchange Online Protection and Microsoft Purview DLP. The engineer acts as the senior escalation point for critical mail-flow interruptions, database issues and complex client-connectivity incidents, leads tenant-to-tenant migrations, merger and acquisition transitions, and legacy messaging infrastructure decommissioning, and provides high-level architecture, solution design, performance optimisation, monitoring and capacity planning.
They also maintain technical standards, operational documentation and clear project or incident updates, own priority-one incidents and assigned project tasks through to resolution or completion, and engage Microsoft support where required, coordinating across data centre, operations, delivery and executive stakeholder groups.
Only what the advert states is listed here. Matric is required, and a relevant National Diploma or degree is preferred. Applicants need at least 7 years of enterprise IT infrastructure experience, including a minimum of 4 years in senior-level hybrid Exchange administration, and expert knowledge of Exchange Online, on-premises Exchange, Active Directory, DNS routing, Database Availability Groups and Windows Server failover clustering.
They also need proven experience with conditional access, multi-factor authentication, email encryption and messaging security controls, strong PowerShell scripting capability for enterprise-scale administration and automation, experience mentoring junior technical team members and producing clear technical documentation, and a demonstrated ability to manage level-three escalations, work to customer service level agreements, and communicate effectively with technical and senior stakeholders.
Certifications are part of the stated requirements: candidates should hold relevant, current Microsoft certifications, with MS-102 (Microsoft 365 Administrator), SC-300 (Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator) and AZ-104 (Microsoft Azure Administrator) named as particularly relevant. Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert, or the historical Messaging Administrator Associate credential, is preferred. The advert also names strong technical leadership and ownership, analytical troubleshooting and sound decision-making under pressure, customer focus and commitment to service level delivery, clear written and verbal communication, effective collaboration across multiple technical and business teams, and attention to security, compliance, documentation and technical standards.
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Messaging roles are won on depth, so prepare a CV that names the hybrid environments you have run, the migrations you have led, and the serious mail-flow or database incidents you resolved at escalation level. List your current Microsoft certifications exactly as they appear on your certificates, since the advert names specific ones. Be ready to walk through a PowerShell automation you built and a security control you implemented, such as SPF, DKIM or DMARC, in plain language a non-technical stakeholder could follow.
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