About the opportunity:
New Era Technology is seeking an experienced Active Directory (AD) and Entra ID Architect/engineer to supplement the existing team. The candidate must have a strong background in designing, building and maintaining complex, large scale and global identity directory services environments. This is a 5-month remote opportunity.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct high level project design and create project charters.
- Review global directory services disaster recovery plans for gaps and define next steps.
- Engineer, deploy, operationalize, maintain, and support tools associated with AD & Entra ID.
- Contribute to the engineering and support of AD & Entra ID as needed.
- Communicate service enhancements and operational efficiency directions, features and roadmaps aligned to the roadmap.
- Providing technical leadership to others with less knowledge or experience.
- Liaise with, train, and support operational teams.
- Assist in technology evaluations and guiding proof of concepts.
- Participate in solution design discussions. Architect and assist in engineering global AD domain consolidation project(s).
Required Skills
- Senior and experienced AD and Entra ID Architect (5-7 years) with Large, Global Enterprise Experience.
- 5+ years’ experience in directory services Architect/Engineer
- Good understanding of AD / Entra ID Security.
- AD Support: Extensive experience in supporting and troubleshooting on-prem Active Directory services (Authentication, DFS, GPO, LDAP).
- AD Security: Good understanding of AD security, vulnerabilities, and common safeguards.
- Tier-0 Security: Specific understanding of Tier-0 and identifying its security boundaries.
- Domain Consolidation: Experience or enhanced understanding of consolidating a large enterprise AD forest.
- Cloud Interface: Familiar working with the AWS EC2 and Azure environments to build and support services.
- Disaster Recovery: Enhanced understanding of recovering Active Directory in a DR situation.
- Tool Development: Experience performing POC testing and driving deployment of AD service-related tools.
- Customer Focus: Ability to work with application owners to troubleshoot AD service and integration issues.
- Documentation: Ability to author, review, and edit technical documents at an Engineering and Operational level.
- Presentation and Training: Ability to conduct knowledge transfer sessions to Engineering and Operations.
- Making Recommendations: Seek and recommend improvements on existing AD architecture, provide recommendations to improve IT systems.
- Experience with assisting in creating of Identity and Access Management (IAM) roadmaps for global directory services.
- Understanding of modern authentication (OIDC, SAML, Kerberos, etc.).
- Understanding of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Policy-Based Access Control (PBAC) and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC).
- Experience with privileged access management for administering directory services.
- Experience developing solution and system architecture.
- Understanding of use of machine learning (and exposure to AI) for technology evaluations and enhancement.
- Leadership experience, managing a project from start to finish.
Preferred Skills
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills with strong spoken and written English.
- Collaborative team worker – both in person and virtually using MS Teams or similar.
- Excellent analytical skills.
- Organizational skills with attention to detail.
- Ability to leverage existing documentation.
- Excellent documentation skills; demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Business outcomes mindset.
- Solid balance of strategic thinking with detailed orientation.
- Self-starter, ability to take initiative.
- Flexibility to accommodate working across different time-zones.
Preferred Education
- Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) in Computer Science from four-year college or university; or equivalent training, education, and work experience.
About Us:
New Era Technology is a community of like-minded, like-hearted people who share the same vision and values: Community, Integrity, Agile, and Committed.
These visions and values tie into our daily work, to serve as a trusted technology adviser to our customers. Often a single project leads to a long-lasting partnership where we have the continued privilege of helping our customers deliver valuable technology solutions that improve efficiencies and experiences to their employees and customers.
EEO Statement:
New Era Technology is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
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