M365 Specialist
Posted 20 Sep 2026
Advertised as “Contract - Senior M365 Specialist”
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- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Contract
- Full-time
No salary listed for this role.
About us
At Datacom, we combine technology, expertise, and talented people to help organisations thrive in a rapidly changing world. As one of Australasia's leading technology providers, we work with customers across industries to solve real-world problems and deliver meaningful outcomes.
Whether we're supporting governments, enterprise organisations, or growing businesses, we're committed to creating meaningful outcomes for our customers, communities, and each other.
About the Role (your why)
This is a chance to make your mark in a business with strong people and customer focus. You’ll combine all your talents, from leadership, relationship building and delivering technical solutions to our clients as part of our Microsoft 365 Centre of Excellence across New Zealand!
The Microsoft 365 Specialist plays a key role as the technical escalation point of our Microsoft 365 Centre of Excellence. As a Microsoft 365 Specialist, you will be accountable for delivering a first-class experience for consumers of our Modern Workplace services including guiding our business and Customers towards adoption and continuous improvement with the Microsoft 365 stack.
Focusing on Microsoft 365 enablement and productivity outcomes for our customers including workloads spanning data, files, communications and collaboration, security and identity and access management.
This role is available across our Datacom offices in New Zealand. New Zealand Citizenship or Permanent Residency is required to be eligible for the relevant clearances.
What you’ll do
As the Microsoft 365 Specialist (Contract) you will typically have exposure across a wide variety of technology areas including (but not limited to):
- Microsoft identity management (AzureAD, AD Connect, ADFS and Microsoft Identity Manager)
- Modern business collaboration tools in the Office 365 suite – Teams, Planner, Groups, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Yammer etc.
- Collaboration and video conferencing solutions like Teams, and ancillary systems like Poly, Cisco and Zoom
- Working knowledge of competitor solutions in the above IT platforms
- Email security and archive technologies (Office 365 ATP/EOP, Mimecast, Avepoint).
What You’ll Bring
Please note that you must be a New Zealand Citizen or Permanent Resident to be successful in your application for this role.
You will have previous experience in an ICT Professional Services organisation and have extensive hands-on experience as a Microsoft 365 Engineer. You will be able to demonstrate;