Senior Power Platform Administrator
Employment Type: Contract
Contract Duration: 1 Year (Extendable)
Work Setup: Hybrid (3x a week Onsite)
Location: Mandaluyong
Schedule:8:00 AM–5:00 PM Manila Time
About the Role
We're seeking a Senior Power Platform Administrator to support a strategic initiative focused on modernizing operations through secure, efficient digital solutions and scalable, AI-enabled innovation.
The successful candidate will be responsible for the administration, governance, security, and day-to-day operations of company's Microsoft Power Platform environment, including Dataverse, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Pages. The role will ensure platform reliability, availability, security, compliance, capacity, and effective lifecycle management.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer and maintain Power Platform environments across Dev, Test, UAT, and Production.
- Monitor platform health, capacity, storage, API usage, and throttling, proactively resolving performance issues.
- Manage environment provisioning, backup and restore procedures, and platform lifecycle.
- Configure and enforce Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies, security roles, and access controls.
- Manage Power Platform licensing, capacity add-ons, and connector usage.
- Perform platform maintenance, updates, patching, and upgrades with minimal business disruption.
- Monitor production systems and respond to incidents, outages, and performance degradation.
- Conduct root-cause analysis and implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Maintain operational runbooks, escalation procedures, and support documentation.
- Enforce Center of Excellence (CoE) governance policies, naming conventions, and solution lifecycle standards.
- Support security, compliance, audit, risk, and regulatory reporting.
- Identify opportunities to improve platform operations, automation, and monitoring.
- Provide mentoring and guidance to junior administrators and support staff.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree or tertiary-level diploma/certificate, preferably in Information Technology, Business Administration/Management, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent.
- 5+ years of experience in Power Platform administration and operations, including environment management, security, governance, monitoring, capacity, and licensing.
- Hands-on experience administering Dataverse, configuring security roles and DLP policies, and using platform monitoring tools.
- Experience with:
- Power Platform Admin Center
- Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Pages
- Microsoft 365 / Azure Active Directory security and identity management
- Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), solutions, pipelines, and DevOps
- Power Platform analytics, Azure Monitor, and/or Application Insights
Technical & Professional Expertise
Strong knowledge and practical experience in:
- Power Platform governance, CoE Toolkit, and platform lifecycle management
- Security frameworks, role-based access control, DLP, and compliance
- Incident, problem, and change management; ITIL or similar frameworks are preferred
- PowerShell, Power Platform CLI, and administrative automation scripting
- Capacity planning, licensing, and cost optimization
- Solution or enterprise architecture from an operations and governance perspective
- Requirements analysis and business process re-engineering
- Agile methodologies and IT service management
The role also requires strong problem-solving, coordination, teamwork, conceptualization, stakeholder-management, and written and oral English communication skills.
What You'll Do
This is a senior operational role suited to a Power Platform professional who can combine hands-on administration with governance, security, service management, and stakeholder coordination. The position will work closely with company's IT Department, project team, and internal and external stakeholders.
