# Senior Active Directory Engineer - Active Top Secret required

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Washington
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $148,750 - $201,250
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Senior Active Directory Engineer and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you.

As a Senior Active Directory Engineer, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be directly impactful to the customer’s mission. You will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and managing advanced Active Directory and related identity solutions to optimize the customer’s enterprise environment.

**Responsibilities**

- Engineer, manage, monitor, maintain, troubleshoot, and update Active Directory and related directory services.

- Support and optimize identity and authentication systems.

- Provide technical leadership and escalation support for complex identity, access, authentication, and centralized resource management issues.

- Autonomously handle and resolve critical technical incidents, ensuring the reliability, security, and performance of Active Directory and directory services.

- Develop and maintain automation and orchestration to streamline maintenance, configuration management, and monitoring of directory services systems.

- Implement and enforce security best practices for identity and access management, including hardening, auditing, and compliance with applicable standards.

- Create and maintain technical documentation, standard operating procedures, and runbooks for directory services operations and incident response.

- Evaluate, test, and recommend new tools and technologies to enhance and modernize the directory services and identity environment.

- Participate in on-call rotations and change management processes to support mission needs as required.

**Requirements**

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for formal education.

- Minimum of 8–10 years of hands-on experience engineering and managing Active Directory in large, complex enterprise environments.

- Demonstrated proficiency with:

- Active Directory design, administration, and troubleshooting

- Group Policy design and management

- DNS, DHCP, and related Windows infrastructure services

- Hybrid identity solutions

- Authentication and authorization protocols

- Strong understanding of system security, identity lifecycle management, and access control methodologies.

- Proficiency with PowerShell and other scripting languages for automation, reporting, and configuration management.

- Relevant certifications strongly desired, such as Microsoft: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator, Azure Administrator, Azure Security Engineer, MCSE (or successor), Cloud: Azure or AWS Administrator/Security certifications.

**Benefits**

- Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts

- Dental plan options

- Vision plan

- 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match

- Full flex work weeks where possible

- Paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave

- Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance

## Skills

### Required
- Active Directory
- Azure Active Directory
- Systems Design
- Systems Engineering
- PowerShell

### Nice to have
- Microsoft: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator
- Azure Administrator
- Azure Security Engineer
- MCSE
- Cloud: Azure or AWS Administrator/Security certifications

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