Active Directory Specialist

Responsibilities

• Schema Administrator:
• Maintains security and integrity of schema
• Oversees modifications to schema
• Full disaster recovery plan and practice of schema recovery
• Enterprise Administrator:
• Creation and management of the forest
• Overall security and reliability of the forest
• Creation and removal of domains
• Management of trust relationship with other domains
• Full disaster recovery plan and practice of trust recovery
• Domain Administration:
• Creation and management of directory infrastructure
• Monitoring and reporting associated with the reliability and security of the domain
• Domain Controller Management
• Policy monitoring and compliance
• Secure remote administration of the DCs and member servers managed by the Infrastructure Group
• Manage group policy at root of domain and for Domain Controllers OU
• Manage the root Users and the root Computers OUs
• Install and manage security reporting tools used to monitor changes to the Active Directory
• Coordinate and configure alarm distribution to OU Admins for OU-related events
• Plan and manage all migrations and upgrades related to the AD or the DCs
• Ensure overall security and integrity of their managed OU hierarchy
• Group Policy Object (GPO) creation, troubleshooting, and management
• Publishing resource objects from their OU hierarchy in the Active Directory as applicable
• Manage Group Policy Object (GPO) links within their OU hierarchy, ADMX File Management
• Configure and Manage DHCP and DNS
• Day to day Troubleshooting related to DHCP and DNS
• Creation/deletion of static DNS records/zones on Active Directory integrated & standalone DNS servers
• Implementation of aging/scavenging on different domains
• DNS server Health check
• Troubleshooting operational AD issues reported by users/application owners & SCOM system alerts
• Promotion/decommission of Domain Controllers
• Plan and implement migrations / upgrades / Updates / patching
• Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) management
• PKI infrastructure management, Certificate infrastructure management
• Infrastructure health monitoring, Backup and restore
• MS Azure: Tenant Administration, Identity Management, AAD Sync, Sentinel, Conditional Access, MFA, Modern Authentication, Azure B2C Tenants
• Incidents, Problems & Service request resolution adhering to SLA
• Implementation of system change requests and releases
• Perform Root cause analysis & Impact assessments
• Understanding, analysis and timely resolution of issues faced during System Configuration/ support cycles

• Minimum Educational Qualification Required: Graduate (BE/B-tech/MCA/BCA)
• Minimum Experience Required: 10 to 14 years

Required Skills

• MS Active Directory and MS Azure
• XQuest AD Manager/Active Roles Server
• XActive Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
• XDNS, DHCP and IPSEC, InfoBlox
• XNetworking, Firewall and Security
• XOperating System Win10, Server 2008/2012/2016/2019
• XScripting experience – VB, PowerShell
• XAD rights management – NTFS/Share Permissions, inheritance
• XOS virtualization knowledge (VMWare Workstation, Hyper-V)
• XDesktop virtualization – Citrix/ ThinApp/ZenApp experience
• XPatch Management with SCCM, WSUS, third party
• XMCTS (Microsoft certified Technology Specialist- MCSE and ITIL V3 Training / Certification)
• XGood understanding of On Prem AD, Azure Entra ID as Cloud technologies
• XConditional Access Policy Management
• PKI, Microsoft CA, Certificate knowledge (High Proficiency)