Microsoft Teams Engineer

<h1>Microsoft Teams Engineer- Mid Level</h1><p><strong>Location:</strong> San Antonio Home Office I, Plano Legacy</p><p><strong>Time Type:</strong> Full time</p><h3>Job Description</h3><p><b>Why USAA?</b></p><p>At USAA, our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families.</p><p></p><p>Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA, where our core values – honesty, integrity, loyalty and service – define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.</p><p></p><p>We are proud to support active-duty military spouses. USAA roles may offer remote or hybrid flexibility for active-duty military spouses consistent with applicable policy and business needs.</p><p></p><p></p><p><b>The Opportunity</b></p><p>USAA is deploying Microsoft Teams to enhance collaboration across our enterprise and enable teammates to better serve our members. We are expanding Teams as a strategic platform for chat, collaboration, meetings, webinars, town halls, conference rooms, and enterprise voice services. Our Collaboration Technology Team is seeking a Microsoft Teams Engineer with experience supporting collaboration technologies in a large enterprise environment. This role will partner with other engineers to implement, configure, and support Microsoft Teams services, including Teams Phone, Teams Rooms, meetings, webinars, and town halls. The engineer will assist with deployments, provide operational support, troubleshoot technical issues, and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that enhance user adoption and platform reliability.</p><p></p><p>Responsible for creating, modifying, maintaining and supporting infrastructure and individual and integrated system components and solutions that enable business functions and IT Services. Balance availability, security, efficiency and functional requirements to help provide an optimized production service. Identify and manage existing and emerging risks that stem from business activities and ensure these risks are effectively identified and escalated to be measured, monitored and controlled.</p><p></p><p>We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be <b>in the office 4 days per week.</b> This position can be based in one of the following locations: San Antonio or Plano, TX.</p><p></p><p>Relocation assistance <b>is</b> available for this position.</p><p></p><p><b>What youll do:</b></p><ul><li>Under limited supervision, designs scalable IT system infrastructure, implements system changes with consistency and autonomy, and automates service delivery and maintenance tasks; builds monitoring and tooling for systems.</li><li>Independently, resolves complex technology production issues by troubleshooting IT systems. Identifies opportunities for improvements and makes recommendations to management.</li><li>Analyzes complex outages and identifies opportunities for system improvements.</li><li>Understands and consistently exercises engineering best practices, concepts, and patterns.</li><li>Understands the customer and identifies solutions and ideas for the customer with some assistance.</li><li>Evaluates potential Technology solutions with some oversight.</li><li>Mentors junior engineers and may being mentoring peer engineer.</li><li>Develop software defined infrastructure in code in CI/CD Pipelines.</li><li>Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.</li></ul><p></p><p><b>What you have:</b></p><ul><li>Bachelors degree; OR 4 years of relevant education and/or experience.</li><li>4 years of infrastructure experience demonstrating depth of technical understanding within a specific discipline(s)/technology(s) or applicable IT experience such as IT Management, Software Development, Data Engineering, and Agile Product/Release Management.</li><li>2 years of experience in creating, modifying, and maintaining infrastructure and individual system components.</li><li>Proficient level of business acumen in the areas of business operations, risk management, industry practices and emerging trends.</li><li>Knowledge and understanding of designing scalable IT system infrastructures, implementing system changes, or automating service delivery and maintenance tasks.</li><li>Basic understanding of cloud technologies and tools.</li></ul><p></p><p><b>What sets you apart:</b></p><ul><li>1+ years’ experience supporting meetings, webinars, town halls, and live events, including event planning, configuration, troubleshooting, and post-event reporting.</li><li>1+ years’ experience supporting conference room technologies, audiovisual (AV) equipment, collaboration devices, and meeting room integrations.</li><li>Experience configuring conferencing hardware from vendors such as Logitech, Poly, and Crestron.</li><li>Experience managing Teams policies, messaging policies, meeting policies, calling policies, app permission policies, and external collaboration settings using Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Teams Admin Center, PowerShell, and related Microsoft tools.</li><li>Experience developing automation using Microsoft Graph API.</li><li>Experience supporting executive-level meetings, large-scale virtual events, and enterprise communications.</li><li>Understanding of Microsoft 365 ecosystem and dependencies including CoPilot, Purview, Defender, and Exchange.</li></ul><p></p><p><b>Compensation range: </b>The salary range for this position is: $93,770-$179,240.</p><p></p><p><b>USAA does not provide visa sponsorship for this role. Please do not apply for this role if at any time (now or in the future) you will need immigration support (i.e., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT Training Plans, etc.). </b></p><p><b><span>Compensation:</span></b><span> USAA has an effective process for assessing market data and establishing ranges to ensure we remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range based on your experience and market data of the position. The actual salary for this role may vary by location. </span></p><p><span> </span></p><p><span>Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance and at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors.</span></p><p></p><p><span>The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.</span></p><p><span> </span></p><p><b><span>Benefits:</span></b><span> At USAA our employees enjoy best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellness. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans, 401(k), pension, life insurance, parental benefits, adoption assistance, paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours, and various wellness programs. Additionally, our career path planning and continuing education assists employees with their professional goals.</span></p><p><span> </span></p><p><span>For more details on our outstanding benefits, visit our benefits page on USAAjobs.com.</span></p><p></p><p><i><span>Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis, this posting will remain open until the position is filled. Thus, interested candidates are encouraged to apply the same day they view this posting. </span></i></p><p><i><span> </span></i></p><p><i><span>USAA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.</span></i></p>

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