**Req ID:** RQ223564

**Type of Requisition:** Regular

**Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:** Top Secret/SCI

**Public Trust/Other Required:** None

**Job Family:** IT Infrastructure and Operations

**Skills:**

Active Directory (AD),Azure Active Directory (AD),Systems Design,Systems Engineering

**Experience:**

10 + years of related experience

**US Citizenship Required:**

Yes

**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

The likely salary range for this position is $148,750 - $201,250. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.

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