Senior Active Directory Engineer - Active Top Secret required

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Requisition Type: Regular

Your Impact

Own your opportunity to serve as a critical component of our nation’s safety and security. Make an impact by using your expertise to protect our country from threats.

Job Description

Senior Active Directory Engineer

Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Senior Active Directory Engineer and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT

As a Senior Active Directory Engineer, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be directly impactful to the customer’s mission. You will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and managing advanced Active Directory and related identity solutions to optimize the customer’s enterprise environment.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT

• Engineer, manage, monitor, maintain, troubleshoot, and update Active Directory and related directory services.

• Support and optimize identity and authentication systems.

• Provide technical leadership and escalation support for complex identity, access, authentication, and centralized resource management issues.

• Autonomously handle and resolve critical technical incidents, ensuring the reliability, security, and performance of Active Directory and directory services.

• Develop and maintain automation and orchestration to streamline maintenance, configuration management, and monitoring of directory services systems.

• Implement and enforce security best practices for identity and access management, including hardening, auditing, and compliance with applicable standards.

• Create and maintain technical documentation, standard operating procedures, and runbooks for directory services operations and incident response.

• Evaluate, test, and recommend new tools and technologies to enhance and modernize the directory services and identity environment.

• Participate in on-call rotations and change management processes to support mission needs as required.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED

Bring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Senior Active Directory Engineer should have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field

  • Additional relevant experience may be substituted for formal education.

• Minimum of 8–10 years of hands-on experience engineering and managing Active Directory in large, complex enterprise environments.

• Demonstrated proficiency with:

  • Active Directory design, administration, and troubleshooting

  • Group Policy design and management

  • DNS, DHCP, and related Windows infrastructure services

  • Hybrid identity solutions

  • Authentication and authorization protocols

• Strong understanding of system security, identity lifecycle management, and access control methodologies.

• Proficiency with PowerShell and other scripting languages for automation, reporting, and configuration management.

• Relevant certifications strongly desired, such as:

  • Microsoft: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator, Azure Administrator, Azure Security Engineer, MCSE (or successor)

  • Cloud: Azure or AWS Administrator/Security certifications

Work Requirements

Years of Experience

10 + years of related experience

* may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree

Certification

Travel Required

Less than 10%

Citizenship

U.S. Citizenship Required