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Enterprise Messaging Administrator

Job Description

Enterprise messaging administrators facilitate communication by designing, planning, and implementing high-availability servers dedicated to communication as well as by monitoring and reporting on the health of the server environment. Enterprise messaging administrators integrate disaster recovery and messaging security—which are critical to the server environment—in all of their support and planning processes. Though a relatively rare work task, enterprise messaging administrators must also be expert at planning upgrades, migrations, and deployments

Skills

• General
  Microsoft Exchange Server installation
  Exchange Server infrastructure configuration
• Beginner
  Active Directory configuration and maintenance
  Mail server monitoring
• Intermediate
  Messaging services design
  Messaging security design
• Expert
  Exchange Server planning
  Messaging security planning

Typical required experience

More than two years

Responsibility scope

60 percent operations, 20 percent engineering, and 20 percent support tasks

Possible role names

• Mail server administrator
• Messaging administrator
• E-mail administrator

Typical next positions

• IT management
• Other technologies that may or may not be related