Title: Microsoft Exchange Consultant

Duration: October 2026 - March 2027

Location: Hybrid - Ottawa Ont.

Clearance: You will need to be eligible for level 1 Reliability Security Clearance. (You will need to be living in Canada at least 5 years)

Provide specialized Exchange architecture and technical expertise to support strategic initiatives, modernization efforts, and the ongoing evolution of Exchange Online and Exchange on-premises environments. The resource will provide architectural guidance, technical leadership, and recommendations to ensure the security, reliability, resiliency, and operational excellence of messaging services supporting Members.

Core Technical Expertise

- Extensive experience designing, implementing, and supporting Microsoft Exchange Server Subscription Edition (on-premises) and Exchange Online environments in large, complex enterprise organizations.
- Expertise in Exchange architecture, including high availability, disaster recovery, and hybrid deployment models.
- Experience designing and implementing Exchange Hybrid configurations between on-premises and Microsoft 365 environments.
- Deep knowledge of mail flow architecture, transport services, connectors, SMTP routing, message hygiene, and email security controls.
- Expertise in Exchange performance optimization, capacity planning, health monitoring, and service reliability.
- Robust understanding of identity integration and authentication technologies supporting Exchange, including Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory and hybrid identity models.




- Experience providing architectural guidance, technical leadership, and recommendations aligned with
- Knowledge of Microsoft best practices, reference architectures, and governance frameworks related to messaging and collaboration services.

Supporting Technologies

- Experience with Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure AD Connect, and hybrid identity solutions.
- Knowledge of PowerShell scripting and automation for Exchange administration, reporting, and operational efficiencies.
- Experience with Microsoft 365 administration.
- Experience with DNS, certificates, load balancing, gateways, and related messaging infrastructure components.
- Experience working with monitoring and operational management tools for Exchange and Microsoft 365 services.
- Experience integrating Exchange services with enterprise applications, authentication services, and cloud platforms.
- Familiarity with ITSM solutions such as ServiceNow for change management, incident management, and operational processes.

Documentation and Knowledge Transfer

- Ability to create and maintain architecture artifacts, technical designs, standards, implementation procedures, and operational documentation.
- Experience documenting current-state and future-state architectures, technical roadmaps, and transition strategies.
- Ability to provide mentoring, knowledge transfer, and technical guidance to operational and engineering teams.
- Experience preparing technical briefings, presentations, and recommendations.

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