Microsoft 365 / Exchange Online
Also written as Microsoft 365, Office 365, O365, M365, Microsoft 365 Administration, Exchange Online, Exchange Server, Microsoft Exchange
Running a company's Microsoft email and collaboration services: Exchange for mailboxes, plus Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive, along with licences and security settings. Exchange Server is the older version run in the company's own data centre; most companies have moved to Exchange Online in Microsoft 365.
Think of it like
Running the office post room, meeting rooms and shared cupboards for everyone from one admin console.
Junior or senior?
Common in IT support and system admin roles.
Junior sounds like
Handles mailboxes, licences and user issues.
Senior sounds like
Has led a move to Microsoft 365, or set up security rules such as multi-factor sign-in and data-loss policies.
Ask them
“Were you part of a move from Exchange Server to Microsoft 365? What was your part, and what went wrong?”
Reading Microsoft 365 / Exchange Online on a resume
- Table-stakes
- Most people in this field list Microsoft 365 / Exchange Online, so its presence tells you little, and opening a screen with it can make the call sound junior. Ask what they built with it instead.
Sourcing for Microsoft 365 / Exchange Online
Every way it's written
("Microsoft 365" OR "Exchange Online" OR "Office 365" OR "O365")Paste into LinkedIn Recruiter, Naukri or your ATS. Combine with a job title and location.
Wider net, with accepted substitutes
("Microsoft 365" OR "Exchange Online" OR "Office 365" OR "O365" OR "M365" OR "Microsoft 365 Administration")Includes skills a hiring manager would usually accept instead. Use it when the exact search runs dry.
Job titles to search alongside it
Network Engineer · Network Administrator · System Administrator · IT Infrastructure Engineer · Network Security Engineer · NOC Engineer · Windows Administrator · Linux Administrator
Where this talent works in India — Networking & IT Infrastructure
Target companies that build networking gear or run large networks and data centres themselves: equipment makers, telecom operators, data-centre operators and infrastructure-services firms. Help-desk-heavy outsourcing contracts use the same titles with far less design work, so ask who designed the network, not just who kept it running.
For example: Cisco, Juniper Networks (HPE), HPE Aruba Networking, Arista Networks, Extreme Networks, F5, Infoblox, Nokia.