Senior Active Directory Specialist

Reference : NCM

Senior Active Directory Specialist – Duties & Responsibilities

The Senior Active Directory Specialist is responsible for the global design of the OT Active Directory (AD) environment for a 6‑month contract period, ensuring optimal performance, security, and availability. This role plays a critical part in designing appropriate identity and access, enforcing security best practices, and supporting enterprise‑wide authentication and directory services.

Key Responsibilities

• Design the AD infrastructure, including domain controllers, DNS, DHCP, and Group Policy.
• Suggest processes to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize AD to ensure stability and performance.
• Develop IAM policies, procedures, and controls.
• Design mechanisms and suggest procedures for user provisioning, de‑provisioning, and access control in alignment with security policies.
• Design AD security best practices, inline with current practices including MFA, security baselines, and privileged access management.
• Suggest processes to conduct security audits, patching, and vulnerability assessments.
• Design AD disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• Design backup and recovery tests to ensure data integrity and availability.
• Suggest PowerShell scripts to automate AD tasks such as account management and reporting.
• Suggest automated monitoring and alerting solutions for AD performance and security.
• Work with IT teams to plan integration of AD with cloud services (e.g., Azure AD, Office 365).
• Provide expert‑level support for AD‑related incidents and service requests.
• Maintain detailed documentation of AD architecture, policies, and procedures.

Required Skills and Qualifications

Preferred Certifications

Package & Remuneration

Hourly Rate

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