Level 3 Active Directory Engineer

Job: Level 3 Active Directory Engineer

Remote

6+ Months Contracted Experienced

About the opportunity:
We are seeking an L3 AD 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 6-month remote contract opportunity.

Candidate must have a strong background in designing, building and maintaining complex, large scale and global identity directory services environments. AD Engineer with 7 Years Experience, including in large enterprise environments. 5-10 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)

Primary Duties:
Resolve production escalations in large, global AD forest with regional domains
Support operations for break / fix activities
Train / mentor junior engineers

Required Skills:
AD Engineer with 7 Years Experience, including in large enterprise environments
5-10 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)
Domain Controller Roles (GCS, Operational Masters, etc.)
Forest and Domain Design
DNS Infrastructure
OU Design
Site Topology, Replication and Knowledge Consistency Checking
Trusts (Transitive and Non-Transitive)
Group Policy Management
Sites & Services
AD Certificate Services
Troubleshooting replication, SYSVOL, GPO, DNS, Digital Certificate, LDAP, Kerberos, Federation, AD Connect and NTP issues
Recovery
Domain Controller migrations
AD Domain Services
Directory Hardening
ADFS
Logging and Monitoring
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
PowerShell Scripting
Excellent analytical skills
Ability to leverage existing documentation
Collaborative team worker both in person and virtually using MS Teams or similar
Excellent documentation skills; demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Ability to work as liaison between business and information security / information technology
Flexibility to accommodate working across different time zones
Excellent interpersonal communication skills with strong spoken and written English
Business outcomes mindset
Solid balance of strategic thinking with detail orientation
Self-starter, ability to take initiative
Project management and organizational skills with attention to detail

Preferred Skills:
AD Utility Tools Familiarity with: Adprep, dsadd, ntdsutil, repadmin, replsummary, dsquery, dsrm, gpupdate, gpresult, klist, netdom, dcdiag, net stop (windows service), net start (windows service), nslookup, regsvr32, etc.

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