Active Directory Engineer/SME

Active Directory Engineer/SME

Atlanta, GA (HYBRID -3/4 days/week)
Long Term
Contract

Top 3 skills:

1. Active Directory
2. AWS
3. Entra

Senior Active Directory Engineer to serve as the technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) for our enterprise Active Directory environment. This role sits within the Identity & Access Management (IAM) organization and is ideal for an experienced engineer with deep Active Directory expertise, cloud identity experience, and a passion for modernizing enterprise infrastructure.

Initially, this role will be approximately 80% hands-on engineering and 20% architecture, with the expectation of evolving into a more architecture-focused position over the course of the engagement.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience designing, building, maintaining, migrating, and decommissioning large-scale Active Directory environments while extending identity services into cloud platforms, particularly AWS, and supporting hybrid identity with Microsoft Entra ID. This individual will also serve as a technical mentor, helping educate and guide junior engineers on Active Directory best practices.

What You'll Do

• Serve as the technical SME for Microsoft Active Directory across the enterprise.
• Design, engineer, implement, modernize, and decommission Active Directory environments.
• Build and support Active Directory forests, domains, trusts, organizational units (OUs), Group Policy Objects (GPOs), and domain controllers.
• Engineer hybrid identity solutions integrating Active Directory with Microsoft Entra ID.
• Design and support Active Directory services within AWS environments, including authentication and identity integration.
• Partner closely with Identity & Access Management (IAM) teams to ensure secure identity lifecycle management and enterprise access controls.
• Troubleshoot complex Active Directory issues involving authentication, Kerberos, LDAP, DNS, replication, domain controllers, trusts, and Group Policy.
• Develop and implement modern infrastructure automation using CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, scripting, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Create technical standards, documentation, and operational best practices for Active Directory services.
• Participate in architectural planning while remaining actively involved in engineering and implementation.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership on Active Directory technologies and best practices.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive experience engineering and administering Microsoft Active Directory in large enterprise environments.
• Proven experience designing, implementing, modernizing, migrating, and decommissioning Active Directory infrastructure.
• Experience working within an Identity & Access Management (IAM) environment.
• Experience integrating Active Directory with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Experience supporting hybrid identity using Microsoft Entra ID.
• Strong knowledge of Active Directory architecture, including:

o Forests & Domains

o Trust Relationships

o Domain Controllers

o Group Policy (GPO)

o DNS

o Kerberos

o LDAP

o Replication

• Experience with modern engineering practices including CI/CD, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and automation.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills within complex enterprise environments.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to mentor junior engineers and collaborate across technical teams.

Munesh

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CYBER SPHERE LLC