Position Summary
The Messaging Senior Analyst is responsible for the administration, security, availability, and continuous improvement of Parker’s enterprise messaging environment across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid platforms. This role supports stable, secure, and compliant messaging services while driving operational excellence through incident response, automation, change control, and documentation.
Role Scope
The Messaging Senior Analyst manages and supports Parker’s core messaging platforms and related service dependencies, including:
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Microsoft Exchange Servers
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Microsoft Exchange Online / M365
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Proofpoint Cloud Gateways
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RightFax
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Active Directory
- PowerShell - administration and automation
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
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Administer Exchange mailbox services, mail flow, connectors, certificates, retention settings, permissions, and compliance-related configurations.
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Support Exchange Online and hybrid messaging, including routing, identity integration, coexistence, and operational runbooks.
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Manage Proofpoint security policies for spam, malware, impersonation protection, content filtering, and URL or attachment defence.
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Maintain SMTP relay and fax services, troubleshoot delivery and policy issues, and drive timely resolution of service-impacting incidents.
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Monitor service health, capacity, availability, and performance risks; participate in incident response, restoration, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions.
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M365 Enterprise apps Client support.
- Execute changes through approved change control, including testing, validation, and back-out planning.
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Maintain SOPs, runbooks, knowledge articles, diagrams, and operational documentation in Teams and SharePoint.
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Support security monitoring, audit requests, retention/eDiscovery tasks, and service reporting.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
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Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or related area (or international equivalent)
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4+ years related IT experience
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Proven experience administering:
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Exchange On-Premise
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Exchange Online
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Proofpoint PoD
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Proofpoint PPS
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RightFax
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PowerShell scripting and automation capability.
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Working knowledge of Active Directory, identity and access controls, groups, permissions, and directory integration.
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Strong troubleshooting skills across mail flow, authentication, DNS, certificates, transport, and client access.
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Ability to create clear technical documentation and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
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Experience with hybrid Exchange environments, migrations, and coexistence.
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Knowledge of messaging security, monitoring, alerting, and log analysis.
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Experience coordinating with vendors and managing third-party escalations.
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Relevant technical certifications.
Working Conditions / On-Call
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Participating in an on-call rotation for after-hours incidents and maintenance activities.
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Work may include scheduled maintenance windows and time-sensitive troubleshooting during service-impacting events.
Physical / Travel Requirements
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Primarily office-based work.
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Occasional travel may be required for site support, project activities, or team meetings (as applicable).
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Parker Hannifin
Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, we’ve enabled engineering breakthroughs that make energy cleaner, transportation safer, medical treatments more effective, and manufacturing more efficient.
With empowered team members in more than 40 countries, Parker serves customers across aerospace & defense, energy, HVAC & refrigeration, in-plant & industrial equipment, off-highway and transportation.
Our scale is global, but our purpose is personal. We enable breakthroughs that improve lives, strengthen communities and create a brighter future.
Our Purpose — Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow — comes to life through our people-first culture where teamwork drives performance, inclusion fuels innovation and growth is encouraged. This environment fosters collaboration and empowers team members from engineering and manufacturing to finance, supply chain, human resources, information technology and beyond.
By combining deep expertise with an entrepreneurial spirit, we help customers succeed in markets that demand performance, reliability, and sustainability.
As we look to the future, Parker is advancing initiatives in energy efficiency and sustainability while developing the next generation of talent and leaders to engineer a better tomorrow.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Parker is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Parker is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job related reasons regardless of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by law. However, U.S. Citizenship, Permanent Residency or other appropriate status is required for certain positions, in accord with U.S. import & export regulations.
(“Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / VEVRAA Federal Contractor”)
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