Job Title: Active Directory Engineer

Location: Irving, TX or Charlotte, NC (3 Days a week Onsite)

Job Type: Contract W2

Looking for an Active Directory Engineer who will be responsible for analysis, design, implementation coordination, and 4th-level escalation support of complex, enterprise-level Active Directory solutions, specifically pertaining to security. This individual will work within the engineering organization, interacting with peer teams and partner groups, scaling, and deploying improvement, consolidation, and migration efforts within the enterprise. The candidate must be able to operate and function well in a geographically dispersed virtual team environment.

Required Skills:

At least 5-10 years of dedicated Active Directory engineering and architecture experience that includes designing, implementing, and maintaining complex enterprise-level (50K+ objects) Active Directory solutions and security models

Overarching broad and deep technical experience with Active Directory Security

Extensive experience and advanced knowledge implementing Windows security concepts and policies, least-privilege design principles

Extensive knowledge of AD Security best-practices, latest security threats/trends and mitigation thereof

Experience with best practices for Active Directory disaster recovery, object management, security models and trust creation

Granular ACE permissions models meeting functional and technical requirements

Deep, in-depth working knowledge of Kerberos and NTLM authentication, MFA, SSO and federation technologies

Extensive and deep knowledge of Group Policy Objects (GPOs), engineering, implementing and 3rd party management solutions thereof

Strong knowledge of LDAP and ability to comfortably construct queries

Working knowledge of Certificate/CA/PKI infrastructure

Excellent communication skills, including proven experience effectively communicating technical challenges and solutions to peers, customers and management

Desired Skills:

Experience with Microsoft's Enhanced Security Architecture Environment (ESAE) - "Red/Bastion/Admin" forest design; including JIT (just in time) JEA (just enough administration) concepts; Microsoft PAM (Privileged Access Manager)

Experience engineering password vaulting solutions (CyberArk, Lieberman, Thycotic, etc.)

PowerShell scripting experience and capabilities

MS SQL/DB knowledge

Microsoft or 3rd party management and monitoring solutions (SCCM, SCOM, VCM, NetIQ GPDH/GPA)

Unix/Linux skills; Vintela VAS integration; RedHat IdM