Senior Active Directory Engineer

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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.

• 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.

Bring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Senior Active Directory Engineer should have:

• Clearance: Must be able/willing to obtain a Top Secret and SCI eligible
  
• 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

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