Active Directory- Entra ID Engineer Responsibilities:

• Conduct high level project design and create project charters.

• Review global directory services disaster recovery plans for gaps and define next steps.

• Engineer, deploy, operationalize, maintain, and support tools associated with AD & Entra ID.

• Contribute to the engineering and support of AD & Entra ID as needed.

• Communicate service enhancements and operational efficiency directions, features and roadmaps aligned to the roadmap.

• Providing technical leadership to others with less knowledge or experience.

• Liaise with, train, and support operational teams.

• Assist in technology evaluations and guiding proof of concepts.

• Participate in solution design discussions. Architect and assist in engineering global AD domain consolidation project(s).

Required Skills

• Senior and experienced AD and Entra ID Engineer (5-7 years) with Large, Global Enterprise Experience.

• 5+ years experience in directory services engineering.

• Good understanding of AD / Entra ID Security.

• AD Support: Extensive experience in supporting and troubleshooting on-prem Active Directory services (Authentication, DFS, GPO, LDAP).

• AD Security: Good understanding of AD security, vulnerabilities, and common safeguards.

• Tier-0 Security: Specific understanding of Tier-0 and identifying its security boundaries.

• Domain Consolidation: Experience or enhanced understanding of consolidating a large enterprise AD forest.

• Cloud Interface: Familiar working with the AWS EC2 and Azure environments to build and support services.

• Disaster Recovery: Enhanced understanding of recovering Active Directory in a DR situation.

• Tool Development: Experience performing POC testing and driving deployment of AD service-related tools.

• Customer Focus: Ability to work with application owners to troubleshoot AD service and integration issues.

• Documentation: Ability to author, review, and edit technical documents at an Engineering and Operational level.

• Presentation and Training: Ability to conduct knowledge transfer sessions to Engineering and Operations.

• Making Recommendations: Seek and recommend improvements on existing AD architecture, provide recommendations to improve IT systems.

• Experience with assisting in creating of Identity and Access Management (IAM) roadmaps for global directory services.

• Understanding of modern authentication (OIDC, SAML, Kerberos, etc.).

• Understanding of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Policy-Based Access Control (PBAC) and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC).

• Experience with privileged access management for administering directory services.

• Experience developing solution and system architecture.

• Understanding of use of machine learning (and exposure to AI) for technology evaluations and enhancement.

Preferred Skills

• Excellent interpersonal communication skills with strong spoken and written English.

• Collaborative team worker both in person and virtually using MS Teams or similar.

• Excellent analytical skills.

• Organizational skills with attention to detail.

• Ability to leverage existing documentation.

• Excellent documentation skills; demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

• Business outcomes mindset.

• Solid balance of strategic thinking with detailed orientation.

• Self-starter, ability to take initiative.

• Flexibility to accommodate working across different time-zones.

Preferred Education

• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) in Computer Science from four-year college or university; or equivalent training, education, and work experience.