Level 3 AD Engineer

About the opportunity:
We are seeking an L3 AD Engineer to supplement the existing team. Candidate must have a strong background in designing, building and maintaining complex, large scale and global identity directory services environments. This is a 6-month remote contract opportunity.
Primary Duties:

• Resolve production escalations in large, global AD forest with regional domains 
• Support operations for break / fix activities 
• Train / mentor junior engineers 

Required Skills:

• AD Engineer with 7 Years Experience, including in large enterprise environments 
• 5-10 Years experience in directory services engineering
• Good understanding of AD / Entra ID Security 
• AD Support: Extensive experience in supporting and troubleshooting on-prem Active Directory services (Authentication, DFS, GPO, LDAP) 
  
  • Domain Controller Roles (GCS, Operational Masters, etc.) 
  • Forest and Domain Design 
  • DNS Infrastructure 
  • OU Design 
  • Site Topology, Replication and Knowledge Consistency Checking 
  • Trusts (Transitive and Non-Transitive) 
  • Group Policy Management 
  • Sites & Services 
  • AD Certificate Services 
  • Troubleshooting replication, SYSVOL, GPO, DNS, Digital Certificate, LDAP, Kerberos, Federation, AD Connect and NTP issues 
  • Recovery 
  • Domain Controller migrations 
  • AD Domain Services 
  • Directory Hardening 
  • ADFS 
  • Logging and Monitoring 
• 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 
• PowerShell Scripting 
• Excellent analytical skills 
• Ability to leverage existing documentation 
• Collaborative team worker – both in person and virtually using MS Teams or similar 
• Excellent documentation skills; demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel and PowerPoint 
• Ability to work as liaison between business and information security / information technology
• Flexibility to accommodate working across different time zones 
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills with strong spoken and written English 
• Business outcomes mindset 
• Solid balance of strategic thinking with detail orientation 
• Self-starter, ability to take initiative 
• Project management and organizational skills with attention to detail 

Preferred Skills:

• AD Utility Tools Familiarity with: Adprep, dsadd, ntdsutil, repadmin, replsummary, dsquery, dsrm, gpupdate, gpresult, klist, netdom, dcdiag, net stop (windows service), net start (windows service), nslookup, regsvr32, etc. 

Required Education

• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) from four-year college or university; or equivalent training, education, and work experience.
• Cybersecurity certifications such as CISSP, CISM, etc. 

Travel:

• Up to 10%

Qualifications:
To perform the job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.
EEO/AA Statement:
New Era Technology provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, pregnancy, marital status, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, or covered veteran status. 
In addition to federal law requirements, New Era Technology complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.