Email Migration Engineer

12-month contract role with a hybrid schedule: 3 days in office and 2 days remote. Approved office locations: Pittsburgh, PA; Lake Mary, FL; New York, NY; Jersey City, NJ.

About the role

Apex Systems is seeking an experienced Email Migration Engineer to support a large-scale enterprise messaging and collaboration transformation program. The successful candidate will assess, engineer, automate, and execute migration activities that move email and collaboration services to a modern Microsoft 365 environment while maintaining secure, reliable enterprise messaging operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and current-state assessment of legacy email and collaboration platforms, including dependencies, risks, migration readiness, and architecture impacts.
• Design and execute migration strategies for Microsoft 365 messaging workloads, including Exchange Online, coexistence, wave planning, cutover, rollback, and operational readiness.
• Analyze and troubleshoot mail flow, SMTP routing, hybrid connectivity, tenant configuration, identity integration, interoperability, and email security issues.
• Partner with infrastructure, cybersecurity, compliance, identity, networking, end-user computing, architecture, and business teams to deliver secure and compliant migrations.
• Coordinate testing, pilot migrations, user acceptance validation, post-migration support, defect resolution, and operational handoff.
• Develop automation and reporting using PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, Exchange / Exchange Online, Active Directory, Microsoft Teams, and related Microsoft 365 services.
• Use Splunk Enterprise to search, analyze, report, and dashboard email log and configuration data supporting migration activity and operational management.
• Create migration plans, runbooks, risk assessments, implementation artifacts, status updates, executive-ready summaries, and knowledge transfer materials.
• Improve delivery patterns through standardization, repeatable processes, automation, resilience, and a strong user-experience focus.

Requirements

• Strong Exchange Online expertise
• Strong PowerShell expertise
• Experience with tenant-to-tenant migrations
• Understanding of mailbox structures, PST exports/imports, and data movement between tenants
• Strong communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience utilizing migration tools
• Splunk experience

Pay

$65-67 per hour.

Benefits

• Supplemental medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance plans
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• 401K program with company match after 12 months of tenure
• Health Savings Account (HSA) on the HDHP plan
• SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions
• Corporate discount savings program and other discounts
• On-demand training program
• Access to certification prep, technical and leadership courses/books/seminars after 6+ months of tenure
• Certification discounts and perks for associations including CompTIA and IIBA
• Dedicated customer service team for consultants
• Access to a certified Career Coach