Active Directory/Azure Specialist

About the opportunity:
Cloud Security Services is seeking an experienced Entra ID engineer to supplement the existing team. Candidate must have a strong background in designing, building and maintaining complex, large scale and global identity directory services environments. This is a 4-month remote opportunity.
Responsibilities:
The candidate will be able to successfully perform the following activities:

• Conduct high level project design and create project charters.
• Review Entra ID disaster recovery plans for gaps and define next steps.
• Engineer, deploy, operationalize, maintain, and support tools associated with Entra ID.
• Contribute to the engineering and support of Entra ID to include.
• Conditional Access
• Authentication strengths including Passwordless & MFA.
• SSO (SAML, OAUTH & OIDC)
• Enterprise & Custom Applications
• Entra Privileged Identity Management
• Multiple Tenants to include National Cloud tenants.
• Communicare 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.

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.
• Excellent understanding of Entra ID Security.
• Tool Development: Experience performing POC testing and driving deployment of Entra ID service-related tools both COTS and self-developed.
• Proficient with Microsoft Graph to automate tasks and generate reports with Entra ID.
• Customer Focus: Ability to work with application owners to troubleshoot Entra service and integrations issues.
• Experience with National Cloud Entra ID tenants.
• 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 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 Entra ID.
• Experience developing solution and system architecture.
• Debugging and troubleshooting experience with Entra ID.

• 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. Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, Microsoft Certified Identity and Access Administrator, Azure Solutions Architect Expert a plus.