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