Windows and Active Directory Engineer
Windows and Active Directory Engineer
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11-04-2025
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Job Description
Windows and Active Directory Engineer
The role requires deep subject matter expertise with Microsofts Windows Server platformsR2 and related technologies including extensive automation experience. The candidate will be part of a team that provides ongoing engineering and operational support for the firms Windows servers and will ensure stability integrity and efficiency through automation.
Principal Responsibilities/Qualifications
- Daytoday maintenance of the Firms entire Windows server estate (approximately 2600 servers globally
- Troubleshoot and solve a wide variety of hardware firmware software and configuration issues
- Install and configure MS Windows Serverand 2025 onto physical and virtual systems using the Firms automated build process (MDT/VMware).
- Architecting building and maintaining the companys internal Windows automation systems and workflows using Chef PowerShell DSC and WSUS
- Ensure estate is kept uptodate with OS patches firmware and/or Driver Stacks
- Create application packages using PowerShell and basic script logic for MSI software installations
- Create reusable modules with Powershell and/or python and integrate with CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins to automate testing and deployments
- Maintain and enhance monitoring and visibility of the server estate via metrics and log gathering analysis alerting and creation of functional dashboards
- Develop and Document procedures Write Runbooks FAQs HowTos Commit code to GitHub for peer review
- Configure and maintain Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) infrastructure and LDAP
- Implementation and support of cross platform Kerberos integrations between Linux and AD
- AD Forest functional level testing and upgrades
- Share weekend oncall rotation duties
Minimum Qualifications/Skills Required
- 8 years experience in information technology as a Systems Administrator/Engineer
- 4 years experience managing a large Active Directory environment. Experience should include deploying and upgrading Active Directory environments.
- 4 years of experience coding and scripting in multiple languages (PowerShell Ruby Python)
- Expert in at least one of the following scripting language used for automation or creating tools: Powershell ruby or python
- Experience with Linux Kerberos integration and Redhat IPA
- A bachelors degree in Computer Science Electrical Engineering or Mathematics
- Experience with Chef MDT or other configuration management technologies (e.g. Ansible Puppet Microsoft DSC etc)
- Experience with application packaging and package management systems such as chocolatey SSCM.
- Experience with windows cluster services and SQL server always on availability groups
- Experience with Open Source Monitoring tools (Prometheus Grafana and the ELK Stack)
- Experience with configuring and troubleshooting HTTP Kerberos Authentication on IIS or other web server platforms.
- Experience working against 3rd party RESTful APIs for system integrations.
- Familiarity with promoting code via version control (GitHub) and collaborating on coding projects.
- Familiarity with coding style guides and coding standards.
- Experience implementing GPOs (Group Policy in Active Directory)
- Familiarity with Hewlett Packard (HP) Proliant and Dell server products
Required Experience:
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