Senior Active Directory Specialist
Senior Active Directory Specialist
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Job Description
Our clients in the consulting space are on the hunt for a Senior Active Directory Specialist to join their dynamic team! The Senior Active Directory Specialist is responsible for the Global design of the OT Active Directory (AD) environment ensuring optimal performance security and availability. This role plays a critical part in designing appropriate identity and access enforcing security best practices and supporting enterprise-wide authentication and directory services.
Key Responsibilities:
- Active Directory Administration
- Design the AD infrastructure including domain controllers DNS DHCP and Group Policy.
- Suggest processes to Monitor troubleshoot and optimize AD to ensure stability and performance. Identity & Access Management (IAM)
- Develop IAM policies procedures and controls.
- Design mechanisms and suggest procedures for user provisioning de1provisioning and access control in alignment with security policies. (Design)
- Security & Compliance
- Design AD security best practices inline with AGA current practices including MFA security baselines and privileged access management.
- Suggest processes to conduct security audits patching and vulnerability assessments.
- Disaster Recovery & Backup
- Design AD disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
- Design backup and recovery tests to ensure data integrity and availability.
- Scripting & Automation
- Suggest PowerShell scripts to automate AD tasks such as account management and reporting.
- Suggest automated monitoring and alerting solutions for AD performance and security.
- Collaboration & Support
- Work with IT teams to plan integration of AD with cloud services (e.g. Azure AD Office 365).
- Provide expert-level support for AD-related incidents and service requests.
- Documentation & Reporting
- Maintain detailed documentation of AD architecture policies and procedures.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related field.
- 10 years of experience managing and administering Active Directory in enterprise environments.
- Expertise in Windows Server DNS DHCP Group Policy and PowerShell scripting.
- Experience with Azure AD ADFS and identity federation.
- Strong understanding of AD security hardening MFA PKI and LDAP.
- Familiarity with IAM tools such as Okta CyberArk or similar.
- Excellent troubleshooting analytical and communication skills.
Preferred Certifications:
- Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Server Infrastructure (Must Have)
- Microsoft Certified: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure (Must Have)
- Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate
- CompTIA Security or CISSP (Advantageous)
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals or Azure Administrator Associate
10+ years of experience managing and administering Active Directory in enterprise environments. Expertise in Windows Server, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, and PowerShell scripting. Experience with Azure AD, ADFS, and identity federation. Strong understanding of AD security hardening, MFA, PKI, and LDAP. Familiarity with IAM tools such as Okta, CyberArk, or similar. Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills.
Employment Type
Full Time
