The role involves engineering, deploying, and supporting Active Directory and Entra ID services, focusing on security and disaster recovery, while providing technical leadership and documentation support.
Active Directory- Entra ID Engineer
Responsibilities:
Preferred Skills
Preferred Education
Responsibilities:
- Conduct high level project design and create project charters.
- Review global directory services disaster recovery plans for gaps and define next steps.
- Engineer, deploy, operationalize, maintain, and support tools associated with AD & Entra ID.
- Contribute to the engineering and support of AD & Entra ID as needed.
- Communicate service enhancements and operational efficiency directions, features and roadmaps aligned to the roadmap.
- Providing technical leadership to others with less knowledge or experience.
- Liaise with, train, and support operational teams.
- Assist in technology evaluations and guiding proof of concepts.
- Participate in solution design discussions. Architect and assist in engineering global AD domain consolidation project(s).
- Senior and experienced AD and Entra ID Engineer (5-7 years) with Large, Global Enterprise Experience.
- 5+ years’ experience in directory services engineering.
- Good understanding of AD / Entra ID Security.
- AD Support: Extensive experience in supporting and troubleshooting on-prem Active Directory services (Authentication, DFS, GPO, LDAP).
- AD Security: Good understanding of AD security, vulnerabilities, and common safeguards.
- Tier-0 Security: Specific understanding of Tier-0 and identifying its security boundaries.
- Domain Consolidation: Experience or enhanced understanding of consolidating a large enterprise AD forest.
- Cloud Interface: Familiar working with the AWS EC2 and Azure environments to build and support services.
- Disaster Recovery: Enhanced understanding of recovering Active Directory in a DR situation.
- Tool Development: Experience performing POC testing and driving deployment of AD service-related tools.
- Customer Focus: Ability to work with application owners to troubleshoot AD service and integration issues.
- Documentation: Ability to author, review, and edit technical documents at an Engineering and Operational level.
- Presentation and Training: Ability to conduct knowledge transfer sessions to Engineering and Operations.
- Making Recommendations: Seek and recommend improvements on existing AD architecture, provide recommendations to improve IT systems.
- Experience with assisting in creating of Identity and Access Management (IAM) roadmaps for global directory services.
- Understanding of modern authentication (OIDC, SAML, Kerberos, etc.).
- Understanding of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Policy-Based Access Control (PBAC) and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC).
- Experience with privileged access management for administering directory services.
- Experience developing solution and system architecture.
- Understanding of use of machine learning (and exposure to AI) for technology evaluations and enhancement.
Preferred Skills
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills with strong spoken and written English.
- Collaborative team worker – both in person and virtually using MS Teams or similar.
- Excellent analytical skills.
- Organizational skills with attention to detail.
- Ability to leverage existing documentation.
- Excellent documentation skills; demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Business outcomes mindset.
- Solid balance of strategic thinking with detailed orientation.
- Self-starter, ability to take initiative.
- Flexibility to accommodate working across different time-zones.
Preferred Education
- Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) in Computer Science from four-year college or university; or equivalent training, education, and work experience.
Top Skills
Active Directory
AWS
Azure
Entra Id
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