Cloud Destinations LLCRemote
Lead Active Directory Enterprise Directory Engineer
Remote
Contract
2 weeks ago
$65 - $70 USD
Key skills
Active DirectoryIdentity ManagementLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationFirewall
About this role
My name is Boopathi, and I m a Senior Technical Recruiter at Cloud Destinations LLC.
Please see the below job description and let me know if you are interested in this position.
Title: Lead Active Directory Enterprise Directory Engineer
Location: Remote (US)
Duration: 9-12+ months
Why WWT?
World Wide Technology is looking for a Lead Active Directory Enterprise Directory Engineer. This role is part of WWT s Strategic Resourcing services and is a contract role. The candidate will be supporting a WWT customer and will be employed by one of WWT s preferred partners. The partner will provide full compensation and benefit information prior to employment with the partner.
Want to work with highly motivated individuals on high performance teams? Join WWT today.
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What will you be doing?
Position Overview:
The Lead Active Directory Enterprise Directory Engineer is responsible for enterprise level design, implementation, and operational support of Microsoft Identity and Directory services in a global environment. This role serves as a technical leader and escalation point for complex identity and domain related issues while driving continuous improvement, stability, and customer satisfaction.
Responsibilities:
- Produce enterprise level designs for Active Directory and Windows File Services supporting global initiatives and follow designs through implementation in collaboration with project and support teams.
- Identify opportunities to innovate, extend, and enhance service delivery across the environment.
- Own root cause analysis and problem management for the corporate identity management environment.
- Serve as an escalation point for application support and troubleshooting, providing guidance and direction for complex production, application, or system issues.
- Act as the first line of escalation for domain technology issues unresolved by tier one and tier two server support teams.
- Perform daily system monitoring to verify integrity and availability of hardware, server resources, systems, and key processes, including review of system and application logs and verification of scheduled job completion.
- Install, configure, and maintain Active Directory and third party software utilities in alignment with operational guidelines.
- Create and maintain system documentation for domain technologies including installation, configuration, and troubleshooting procedures.
- Improve existing processes through solutions to recurring problems and enhancements to existing solutions or documentation.
- Provide training as required.
- Manage customer satisfaction through effective communication and expectation management.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science degree in computer science, information technology, or a related discipline OR5+ years of IT work experience in a global information technology infrastructure environment.
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Experience with Microsoft Identity technologies including Active Directory, Windows File Services, and Group Policy.
- Expert knowledge administering Active Directory and Group Policy Objects.
- Expert knowledge of Active Directory, Active Directory Federation Services, and public key infrastructure within Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 environments.
- Expert knowledge of DNS, DHCP, WINS, and DFS in a Windows Server 2012 landscape.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager, Microsoft Exchange, and Quest ActiveRoles Server is preferred.
- Strong understanding of monitoring best practices with experience using Microsoft System Center Operations Manager.
- Extensive experience with infrastructure and server principles, application infrastructure standards, networking fundamentals, Windows systems, physical server architecture, virtualization technologies such as VMware and Hyper V, and LAN WAN firewall and VPN technologies.
- Experience developing, documenting, and enforcing standards, security procedures, and access controls to ensure integrity of Windows systems and Active Directory.
- Knowledge of server virtualization technologies preferably VMware and Microsoft technologies.
- ITIL version three certification.
Professional Skills and Experience:
- 7+ years of overall IT experience with three to five years supporting Microsoft Identity technologies including Active Directory, Windows File Services, and Group Policy.
- Demonstrated progressive advancement in responsibility with deep troubleshooting expertise.
- Understanding of industry best practices and ability to implement them effectively.
- Ability to translate technical issues into clear business language for end users.
- Experience working in a fast paced industrial manufacturing environment is desired.
- Proven ability to engineer, develop, deploy, and maintain business critical systems with hands on solution development experience.
- Strong team player with leadership, communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills and ability to work across global teams.
- Self motivated with strong attention to detail and sound judgment.
- Ability to establish new standards for quality, performance, or productivity.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to maintain open communication with internal teams, partners, vendors, and customers.
- Ability to integrate feedback professionally and prioritize work to drive high quality results.
Tools and Technologies:
- Active Directory
- Active Directory Federation Services
- Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2
- DNS DHCP WINS DFS
- Microsoft System Center Operations Manager
- VMware and Hyper V
- Windows security and identity management tools