M365 Engineer at NDA, Warrington/Remote, 4 Months, £Contract Rate

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is a non-departmental public body created through the Energy Act 2004.

We have 5 offices across the UK, in Cumbria, Dounreay, Harwell, Warrington and London.  We have 17 sites including the first fleet of nuclear power stations, research centres, fuel-related facilities, and Sellafield, which has the largest radioactive inventory and the most complex facilities to decommission.

We are sponsored by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) and supported by Dounreay, Magnox, Nuclear Waste Services, Nuclear Transport Solutions and Sellafield. The Scottish government also has a governance role, working closely with DESNZ to ensure its expectations are met.

Our role is strategic: we establish the overall approach, allocate budgets, set targets and monitor progress.

We do not have a hands-on role in cleaning up our facilities. Instead, we deliver our mission through others, primarily 12 businesses.

We are responsible for:

• Decommissioning and cleaning up these nuclear facilities ensuring that all waste products, both radioactive and non-radioactive, are safely managed.
• Implementing policy on the long-term management of nuclear waste.
• Developing UK-wide strategy and plans for nuclear Low Level Waste (LLW).
• Scrutinising the decommissioning plans of EDF Energy, who own the operating fleet of Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor (AGR) nuclear power stations.

You’ll have relevant experience in:

• Strong skills in Azure policy and Landing Zone deployments.
• Modern Endpoint Management (Intune/SCCM (Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager)/Autopilot/AutoPatch/Configuration Profiles).
• On-premise Active Directory and Azure Active Directory.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft Windows 10/11 and Windows Server internals, configuration, upgrades and patching.
• Teams Phone System and Teams Meeting Rooms.
• Device Management
• MEMS
• Strong knowledge of Azure Active Directory, IDAM and NDES/SCEP.
• Office 365: OneDrive, Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, Power BI etc.
• M365 Security Technologies including DLP, M365 Security Centre, M365 Compliance Centre, Retention Policies, Defender, Conditional Access/MFA/PIM/AD Connect, Azure Information Protection..
• Windows virtualisation using Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktops.
• Security benchmarks including NCSC, Microsoft and CIS.
• Automation and Configuration Management - Powershell/Graph API Scripting
• Strong investigative, analysis, troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to analyse complex business requirements, requests or problems and translate into appropriate actions and solutions.
• Business awareness: specific knowledge of the organisation 's business areas, drivers, structure, priorities etc. would be desirable
• Recommend, devise, design and implementation solutions based on business requirements.
• Documentation. Creating and maintaining documentation of IT designs, processes, services and operations.
• Effective oral and written communication with a clear customer focus
• SC Cleared.