Active Directory Engineer

Role: Active Directory Engineer

Location: Remote

Duration: 6+ months

Minimum Experience required: 12 years

Responsibilities

• Support, design, install, customize, and maintain servers and all associated components.
• Provide general administration of systems. This includes user access administration, system services, configurations, and the development of tools to manage the environment.
• Assists with the development of prototypes/proofs of concepts to validate key project assumptions prior to making significant investments.
• Provide break/fix support of associated software and operating system.
• Communicating with team, customers, and sponsors effectively. Able to establish credibility by appealing to reason and using research, data, facts.
• Maintain system performance by pro-active monitoring and trending the utilization of system resources.
• Maintain system reliability and availability by managing system updates and patches.
• Design, install and implement systems to provide efficient, cost-effective solutions for the business' computing needs. Research industry trends and directions within the industry, to assist with developing long-term IT infrastructure strategies.
• Assists with the identification of system requirements. Devises or modifies procedures to solve problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time, form of desired results, and integration of components.
• Use appropriate change control procedures for implementing software enhancements.
• Oversees systems testing, leads integration testing, and assists in user testing.
• Coordinates the maintenance of assigned applications.
• Monitors system and application performance metrics. May provide input to solutions and/or recommendations for improvements.
• Remain abreast of current technologies and best practices that may be applicable to the company.
• Establishes relationships with the users and the IT organization to provide technical solutions to meet user needs through the analysis of business workflows and an understanding of business needs.
• Assists in the performance of Merger and Acquisitions
• Assists in Domain mergers and divestures.

Essential Skills/Experience

• Active Directory - Microsoft centric environment
• Basic computer skills: Operating Systems, Microsoft Office
• Provide support for Active Directory and related technologies:
• Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS)
• Sites and Services Configuration
• Azure Entra ID
• AD Connect
• DNS
• DHCP
• Microsoft Certificate Authority (MSCA)
• KMS and RDP licensing
• PowerShell scripting
• TCP/IP Subnetting

Minimum Requirements

Five (5) years business experience using and supporting active directory, computing, and network technology in an enterprise environment.