Microsoft O365 & Collaboration Technical Manager

Description

The NASA IT portfolio within Digital Modernization Sector currently has an opening for a Microsoft Collaboration Engineer Manager to lead our M365 Collaboration team that supports our Microsoft 365 and Exchange environments. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience helping the NASA End-User Services and Technologies (NEST) mission. In this mission, we serve as an agile, trusted partner to transform, integrate, simplify, modernize, and safeguard NASA IT systems and data. And, above all else, continuously enhance the end-user experience.

Microsoft Collaboration Engineer Manager will act in a lead role in directing the operations of the NASA NEST M365 and Exchange environments. They will manage a team and act as the technical SME. This includes Exchange on premise infrastructure in hybrid with Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, One Drive, Microsoft Defender, M365 security suite, SMTP gateways, Active Directory, Azure, networking to include express routes, DNS, and IP management. The candidate will play a key role in keeping the NASA M365 and Exchange environments operational, reliable, and secure.

Primary Responsibilities Management :

• Lead a team of employees. Responsible for creating staffing plans to ensure efficient use of resources.
• Perform management duties to include : provide guidance to team on technical solutions, develop and refine support methodologies, as well as administrative functions.
• Partners with the NEST Operations Manager and NASA NEST customer representatives to help define the M365 and exchange environment for NASA.
• Must be able to clearly articulate technical dialog with a variety of audiences to include NEST and NASA management.
• Must be able to work within a team environment as this position will interact with not only members of NEST but also cross contracts with other service offices.
• Rallies all key parties (across NASA and NASA contractors) to engage in the resolution of critical issues in a timely manner.
• Can be relied upon to communicate NEST strategic and tactical directions and status to all levels of NASA and Leidos leadership.
• Creates and leads teams, as needed, from within NEST and other contracts to enable the delivery of high-quality services across NASA.
• Leads by example and coaches staff to reach their true potential.
• Work with security leadership (both contract and civil servant) to enhance security posture of our environment.
• Introduce new Microsoft 365 features and services across NASA and support customer issues.

Primary Responsibilities Technical

Basic Qualifications

Proven experience working in a geographically dispersed government environment.

Experience in delivering technologies such as Windows Server, Exchange Server, Microsoft 365, AD, working with DNS, cloud-based architectures like Azure and / or AWS.

Preferred Qualifications

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Original Posting : August 27, 2025

For U.S. Positions : While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range :

Pay Range $104,650.00 - $189,175.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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