Active Directory Engineer

Job Description

Active Directory Engineer

An exciting opportunity at an Investment Bank based in London is available for an Active Directory Engineer to support the creation of a strategic direction for the Identity Management domain and associated tool set, together with supporting and maintaining overall service health and vendor management.

This position is concentrated primarily around MS Active Directory, including the technical documentation, maintenance of platform standards, and planning of technical direction and strategy. This person will oversee the day-to-day platform management and the coaching on best practice of operating the identity process.

The role requires an excellent team player; a self-starter with a motivation and desire to seek out and deliver improvements to document and promote future platform opportunities for approval and funding. From a technical standpoint, you must be able to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of Identity Management, Microsoft Active Directory on premise and cloud-based Azure Active Directory.

Responsibilities:

• Main escalation point for SME 3rd line BAU incidents and tasks for in-depth troubleshooting and analysis.
• Assist and advise Team Lead on technical direction for Identity Management.
• Create and maintain technical guides to convey fact, simply and effectively to both peers and those less experienced.
• Daily management and maintenance of the Identity Management platform, ensuring service availability, health and performance monitoring, and the maintenance of operational & technical documentation.
• Balance technical fact/opinion against business risk/delivered service to provide well thought through guidance to support technical staff with incident, problem investigation and project decisions.
• Produce and interpret service performance and security data to provide analysis for investigations; baseline performance and trend reports for management to highlight areas of focus, improvement, and ongoing change.

Skills:

• Microsoft Active Directory and Windows Server
• Azure Active Directory
• Ability to create, edit, and troubleshoot Powershell Scripts
• Quest AD management tools (for example, Quest Change Auditor, Quest Recovery Manager) experience is beneficial
• Single Sign On configuration methods and protocols is beneficial
• Excellent communication skills
• A proactive, motivated approach.
• The ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordingly.

This is a permanent position based in London, operating on a hybrid work setup.