# Active Directory / Identity Engineer

**Company**: Keywords Group
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://apply.workable.com/j/BBAE60898D
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_7143feef-7ec

## Description

We are seeking an experienced Active Directory SME and Azure identity lead to join our Global IT team. This is a lead role to work closely with Global IT members and regional staff.

The role will have primary responsibility for technical decisions and guiding the company-wide AD architecture. This position will have a focus on on-premises directory services and identity management, as well as their cloud-based counterparts, such as Azure Active Directory.

**Responsibilities**

- Overall responsibility for the company-wide Active Directory infrastructure

- Plan and deploy Active Directory Domain Services inter-forest and intra-forest migrations

- Plan and deploy the extension of active directory to Azure domain services and future-proof the existing environment

- Plan, coordinate and execute any life cycle activities with regard to Active Directory and surrounding systems

- Plan and execute large-scale Active Directory Domain Services, Federation Services, and Certificate Services upgrades

- Assess the sizing and health of acquisition Active Directory deployments in support of consolidation efforts

- Design and deploy various identity management solutions such as Azure Active Directory Premium

- Design and implement solutions for customers based around core Microsoft technologies, such as DFS, DHCP, DNS, File and Print Services, IIS, etc.

- Keep up on emerging technologies and understand how they can add value to existing infrastructures

- Work with regional and infosec teams closely as SME for active directory

**Requirements**

- Strong Risk & Security awareness

- Strong verbal and written communication skills

- The ability to translate business needs into technical requirements

- Must love documentation. Creating detailed design or migration documents is a regular occurrence

- Expert-level Active Directory Domain Services experience including Azure AD

- Capable of designing and deploying AD Certificate Services and Azure domain services

- Strong scripting skills. PowerShell 3.0+ experience is very strongly preferred

- Must be able to speak about topics such as routing and switching, storage, virtualization, and server hardware as it relates to the above technologies and responsibilities

## Skills

### Required
- Active Directory Domain Services
- Azure AD
- PowerShell
- AD Certificate Services
- Azure domain services
- DFS
- DHCP
- DNS
- File and Print Services
- IIS

### Nice to have
- Routing and switching
- Storage
- Virtualization
- Server hardware