Systems Engineer AD Migration (Contract)
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Job Location:
Newcastle upon Tyne - UK
Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job title: Systems Engineer (Active Directory Migration)
Location: UK (Remote-first) Occasional travel: Manchester
Type: Contract (initially 2-3 month with possible extension).
We are hiring an experienced Systems Engineer to deliver a critical Active Directory migration within an AWS-hosted legacy estate. This work is essential to improving operational resilience and enabling disaster recovery testing across Windows-based services.
You will take ownership of untangling a partially completed AD migration and leading the move to a single well-managed Active Directory domain within our core AWS platform environment. This role requires strong technical judgement not just execution.
What youll do
Assess and validate the current AD setup risks and dependencies.
Design the target-state AD architecture and migration approach.
Build a new consolidated AD environment in AWS.
Migrate identities and services using a staged approach preserving SIDs where required.
Migrate an initial service as a blueprint then scale across the remaining estate.
Ensure AD supports reliable backup recovery and DR testing.
Document decisions risks and runbooks clearly.
What were looking for
Essential
Strong hands-on experience with Active Directory migrations and consolidation.
Deep knowledge of Windows Server and AD operations.
Experience running Windows workloads in AWS (EC2).
Proven ability to deliver high-risk infrastructure change safely.
Nice to have
Experience migrating away from AWS Managed Microsoft AD.
Infrastructure-as-code experience.
AWS disaster recovery and backup experience.
Ways of working
Remote-first with Manchester-based collaboration preferred where useful
Key Skills
- IVR
- SOAP
- Avaya
- Solaris
- Cost Accounting Standards
- Database Design
- Hibernate
- ITIL
- Weblogic
- Express.js
- Contracts
- ASP
