Established in 1991, Collabera has been a leader in IT staffing for over 22 years and is one of the largest diversity IT staffing firms in the industry. As a half a billion dollar IT company, with more than 9,000 professionals across 30+ offices, Collabera offers comprehensive, cost-effective IT staffing & IT Services. We provide services to Fortune 500 and mid-size companies to meet their talent needs with high quality IT resources through Staff Augmentation, Global Talent Management, Value Added Services through CLASS (Competency Leveraged Advanced Staffing & Solutions) Permanent Placement Services and Vendor Management Programs.
Collabera recognizes true potential of human capital and provides people the right opportunities for growth and professional excellence.
Job DescriptionLocation: 100 Abbott Park Road, Lake County, Abbott Park, IL 60064
Duration: 6+ months (could go beyond)
Roles:
• Network Directory and Infrastructure Services Administration.
• Knowledge of domain administration and troubleshooting, Active Directory, MS FIM, Exchange, MS Office365 and supporting technologies, MS Azure, NPS, Federation and SQL Server administration required.
Responsibilities:
• Provide technical Level III problem isolation and resolution for a Global Active Directory Network.
• Configures and performs advanced diagnostics on infrastructure components and cloud based applications.
• Understands and repairs Domain infrastructure including DNS, DHCP, ADLDS, ADFS and FIM Sync.
• Understands and can configure/install Win Server 2008r2/2012r2 technologies for domain controllers and Radius Authentication servers.
• Repair and recover from hardware or software failures.
• Rotate on-call and must be available to work a varied shift schedule in a 7x24 hour operations center environment.
• Initiate major outage communication technical bridges as requested.
• Apply fix procedures as instructed for repetitive events as instructed and coordinate with impacted constituencies.
Competencies:
• Superior knowledge of Active Directory overall and its administrative components.
• Perform domain administration for 61,000+ workstations including domain controllers, NPS, Win 2003/2008R2/2012 server hardware, dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP), domain name servers (DNS) configuration integrated with active directory, desktop configuration and end user support.
• Candidate will have worked in an AD environment that has done acquisition and divestiture work, Candidate will have worked with products such as ADMT, and ADLDS and the roles they play in M&A activities such as management of active directory structure in creation, administration of organizational units (OU), containers and sub containers throughout the domain from geographic to organizational standards, while setting policies and permissions.
• Candidate should have expert knowledge of Federation protocols including OAuth, SAML, WSFed, and a deep understanding of the IDP and SP roles associated with Federation environments.
• Candidate will have worked with Office 365 from an Identity standpoint and have an understanding of Azure Active Directory Sync and Identity Federation for Cloud services.
• Expertise should include attribute mapping and troubleshooting as well as rule sets associated with AADSync.
• Candidate must be able to correctly configure servers and clients for all services.
• Can isolate and repair most DNS and IP service problems.
• Understands and uses the appropriate tools in all instances during problem isolation and repair.
• Possesses an in depth understanding of communications technologies and can isolate and resolve most infrastructure issues.
Qualifications• Associates Degree Minimum, prefer Computer Science or technology area or telecommunications science business minor
• Three (3) to six (6) months of specialized technical courses in Win and Active Directory technology's typically provided by vendors, technical societies, or equivalent experience.
Additional InformationTo know more about this position, please contact:
Himanshu Prajapat
973-606-3290
himanshu.prajapat(at)collabera.com
Skills Required
- Active Directory administration and troubleshooting (global AD, domain controllers, OU and permissions management)
- Experience with Microsoft FIM / FIM Sync and ADLDS
- Experience with ADFS and federation protocols (OAuth, SAML, WSFed) including IDP and SP roles
- Office 365 identity integration and Azure Active Directory Sync (AADSync) experience
- Windows Server 2008 R2 / 2012 R2 configuration and installation for domain controllers and RADIUS servers
- NPS / RADIUS configuration and administration
- DNS and DHCP configuration and troubleshooting integrated with Active Directory
- SQL Server administration
- Experience with ADMT and Active Directory activities related to acquisitions/divestitures
- Ability to perform Level III problem isolation, repair and recover from hardware/software failures
- Willingness to rotate on-call and work varied shifts in a 24x7 operations center
- Associate's degree minimum
- Degree in Computer Science, technology area, or telecommunications/business minor (preferred)
- Three to six months of specialized technical courses in Windows and Active Directory technologies (or equivalent experience)
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